Life Among the Qallunaat

Publisher's description (University of Manitoba Press, 2015): 
Life Among the Qallunaat is the story of Mini Aodla Freeman’s experiences growing up in the Inuit communities of James Bay and her journey in the 1950s from her home to the strange land and stranger customs of the Qallunaat, those living south of the Arctic. Her extraordinary story, sometimes humorous and sometimes heartbreaking, illustrates an Inuit woman’s movement between worlds and ways of understanding. It also provides a clear-eyed record of the changes that swept through Inuit communities in the 1940s and 1950s. Mini Aodla Freeman is Inuit.

Author biography (University of Manitoba Press, 1978): 
Mini Aodla Freeman is an Inuk author, playwright, and translator born on Cape Hope Island in James Bay, Nunavut.

Resource format: Memoir

Age recommendation: University

Keywords: Inuit communities, Qallunaat, James Bay, memoir, lived experience, life writing, history, Indigenous voices, Nunaaluk (Cape Hope Island), coming of age, grandparents, Residential School, 

Year of publication: 1978

Publisher information: University of Manitoba Press