Life Among the Qallunaat

An honest, simple, and vital memoir of an Inuk woman's experiences during a time of massive transition in Canadian Inuit communities. The editors did a great job at retaining Aodla Freeman's voice. An important yet subtle work that has finally found a readership after its original publication in 197......more

Re-edited and reissued by The University of Manitoba Press’s First Voices, First Texts series, bless their hearts. This is a wonderful, highly readable memoir by Aodla Freeman, an Inuit woman born in 1936 in an island community in James Bay in what is now Nunavut, Canada. She writes about growing up......more

I really enjoyed this book and learnt a lot from it. It was very well written and kept me interested throughout. I would definitely recommend it. My reason for only giving it 4/5 stars (though probably more like 4.5/5) is due to the organization of the book. The first third speaks about the authors e......more