Life Among the Qallunaat, Mini Aodla Freeman
Life Among the Qallunaat, Mini Aodla Freeman
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Life Among the Qallunaat

Author: Mini Aodla Freeman

Narrator: Taqralik Partridge

Unabridged: 14 hr 16 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: ECW Press

Published: 06/05/2019


Synopsis

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 humourous 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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kristine on September 25, 2016

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

Goodreads review by Karen on February 23, 2019

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

Goodreads review by Sasha on November 23, 2020

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