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Margaret-Olemaun was determined to learn to read and prove to the nuns that she was a strong and capable student, and she did. When she convinces her parents and begins attending the school, the nuns try to humiliate and shame her in many ways. Olemaun’s parents do not want her to attend the school away from her home of Banks Island, but Olemaun longs to learn to read like her older sister. When I Was Eight by Christy Jordan-Fenton and Margaret-Olemaun Pokiak-Fenton (Inuvialuit) tells the true story of Margaret Pokiak-Fenton’s experiences at an Indian Residential School in Aklavik, in what is now known as Canada. John where she sells her beautifully beaded and adorned crafts and the best bread and bannock in the North Peace.By Celeste Trimble and Kristen Suagee-Beauduy Most Saturdays she can be found at the local farmer’s market in Fort St. Margaret is well-known for her traditional handmade Inuit crafts and has showcased them at the Northern Arts Festival many times. While working for the Hudson’s Bay Company there, she met her future husband Lyle, who was employed on the Dew Line project. She later settled in Tuktoyaktuk where her family had relocated. There was nothing she wanted more than to learn how to read. Unlike most children, she begged to go to the school, despite the horrific reputation of residential schools. At the age of eight, she traveled to Aklavik, a fur trading settlement founded by her great-grandfather, to attend the Catholic residential school there. Being Inuvialuit, her young childhood was filled with hunting trips by dogsled, and dangerous treks across the Arctic Ocean for supplies, in a schooner known as the North Star. She spent her early years on Banks Island. She later settled in Tuktoyaktuk where her family had Margaret Pokiak-Fenton was born on Holman Island in the Arctic Ocean, en route with her nomadic family to their winter hunting grounds on Banks Island.

Margaret Pokiak-Fenton was born on Holman Island in the Arctic Ocean, en route with her nomadic family to their winter hunting grounds on Banks Island.