Vocabulary
This is the boat Olemaun's family traveled to Aklavik on.
What is a schooner?
What is a memoir?
This is an account of a specific time in the author's life.
Olemaun went to residential school so she could read this book.
What is Alice's Adventure in Wonderland?
Who funded Canadian Residential Schools.
Who is the Canadian Government and Churches
This is how Olemaun referred to the mean nun. It is a black bird.
What is a Raven?
Why is the book called Fatty Legs?
Olemaun was forced to wear red stockings and she felt it made her look fat
This is what the nuns changed Olemauns name to when she got to residential school.
Who is Margaret?
This year is when the last residential school closed in Canada.
What is 1996.
It means a hard stone used to sharpen an ulu.
What does Olemaun mean?
Who is the Author of Fatty Legs
Who is Margaret Pokiak-Fenton and Christy Jordan-Fenton
This is when students begin learning.
What happens when the ice freezes?
This year is when the first residential school opened in Canada.
What is 1831.
Who are "outsiders"?
People who worked at the school, spoke English, and had European ways. Settlers and colonizers
How many years did Olemaun spent at Residential School. For bonus points: which years?
2 years - 1944-1946
What happens on Olemaun's first day of class
The Raven wants her to read a book out loud and she cannot. She feels angry and embarassed.
Besides classes what did the children have to do in Residential schools
CHORES: Mop, empty the toilet bins, scrub the floors, work in the chicken coop, garden, wipe the chalkboards
It is a soft boot, traditionally made of reindeer skin or sealskin.
What is a kamik?
Why did Olemaun want to go to residential school
To learn to read
What happens to Olemaun when she first gets to residential school?
Her hair is cut and they laugh at her for eating shaving cream
What can we now do as students ? What can we do today?
We discuss what happened, we recogonize it affects us today, We learn more about each other, honour all cultures and Truth and Reconciliation throughout the year, wear orange shirts, learn more about Indigenous culture.