Life among the Qallunaat
Record details
- ISBN: 9780887557750
- ISBN: 0887557759
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Physical Description:
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XVII, 277 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm. - Publisher: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada : University of Manitoba Press, [2015]
Content descriptions
General Note: | This reissue includes revisions based on the original typescript, and an interview with the author. "Life Among the Qualunaat was first published in 1978"--Page 4 of cover. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
Formatted Contents Note: | "One day, somebody is going to forget" a conversation with Mini Aodla Freeman -- Elevator -- First day at work -- Lost -- Alikatu -- Loneliness had many reasons -- I knew him and yet not -- The screen had to do with it -- My clothes were valuable -- So close together and yet so far apart -- Exhibition -- Exciting for a Qallunaat girl -- It's a terrible dream -- To please a friend -- They are out of the box -- I did not hear him arrive -- Grandmother's qullik was very bright -- It and her -- Almost lost an arm for a stamp -- Grandmother's helpers -- Grandmother's elegance came in handy -- Artificial river -- I would like to see to whom I am talking -- Something familiar? -- Meeting a grand lady -- Dog meat in the south? -- They too have their own way of writing -- I hate water -- My most silly moment -- My first square dance in the south -- Twenty-one, but one year old in the South -- I thought I was a queen -- Caught between two lives -- A house in the air -- He wrote only few words -- My feelings were hurt -- Visiting a mint -- We were nomads -- The fish liked to be dressed up for -- Hospital visits -- Newspaper office -- Buttons count a lot -- My frustration -- Feeling crushed -- Just close your eyes and eat -- Goose pimples all over -- He read backwards -- Life or death -- So many and so quiet -- I have seen many deaths -- I am in the middle -- "Life-or-death" had a reason -- I am crazy about it -- Language was pulling -- Silly cry -- Second look -- Inuit in the south -- The situation was familiar -- Weetaltuk died and they became weak -- My Inuk way that I was born into -- I remember -- It was a strange winter -- I will never know another summer like that -- Trading was a chore but necessary -- They came bearing gifts -- The world war in the Qallunaat world rubbed on us too -- Did they really pamper their eyebrows? -- Other fears emerged -- It was a time of joy and a time to learn -- To learn is sometimes painful -- James Bay robbers -- It was peaceful -- No more baby hammocks -- The doll lasted much longer on the wall -- Nature can be mean sometimes -- Giant berries -- Grandmother sometimes needed help -- Grandparents seemed to have made it for me -- I was dumped -- My feet were smelly but they were warm -- I think I was kidnapped -- They came to get me but they had no ransom -- So much had happened while I was away -- School is not the only place of education -- Pain, pain and more pain -- Getting used to it is part of survival -- Bad pains have good rewards? -- A mourning trip -- Desperate chance -- We almost had an Indian mother -- Father knew how to hold our tongues -- How Grandmother got flat fingers -- Common to natives, but not to doctors -- She had cold hands, but the least painful -- One could tell that they were warriors -- Growing pains -- Mighty, fantastic and mysterious -- Only beaver pelt collectors -- Nobody told me that I had to grow strange -- Certainly it was a time of joy -- To become a woman is even stranger -- One drains blood to grow up -- Adults get disappointed too -- Bad times are sometimes good luck -- Innocent woman -- Brother was growing too -- Novelty creates smells -- The sick gave me strength -- What I needed was physical strength -- We were shipped like cargo -- We kept our homes at the back of our minds -- Nightingale kept calling me -- Home was just meant to be a memory -- House work is a lonely affair -- I still knew how to be happy -- Father, please take me home -- Father had his own reasons -- Harmony is not forever -- Did the drink drive me crazy? -- Grandmother was always right -- Machines are cold -- They were strangers more than I -- The agent was still after me -- How do I like the weather? |
Additional Physical Form available Note: | Issued also in electronic format. |
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Subject: | Freeman, Minnie Aodla Inuit Canada Biography Indigenous peoples in Canada Inuit Canada Freeman, Minnie Aodla 1936- Eskimo |
Genre: | Autobiographies. Biography. |
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