Description
Mini Aodla Freeman was born in 1936 on Cape Hope Island in James Bay. At the age of sixteen, she began nurse's training at Ste. Therese School in Fort George, Ontario, and in 1957 she moved to Ottawa to work as a translator for the then Department of Northern Affairs and National Resources. Her memoir, Life Among the Qallunaat, was published in 1978 and has been translated into French, German, and Greenlandic. Life Among the Qallunaat is the third book in the First Voices, First Texts series, which publishes lost or under appreciated texts by Indigenous writers. This reissue of Mini Aodla Freeman's path-breaking work includes new material, an interview with the author, and an afterword by Keavy Martin and Julie Rak.
About the Author
Keavy Martin is an assistant professor in the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta, Canada.
Book Information
ISBN 9780887557750
Author Mini Aodla Freeman
Format Paperback
Page Count 304
Imprint University of Manitoba Press
Publisher University of Manitoba Press
Weight(grams) 402g