Fatty Legs. A True Story

By: Christy Jordan-Fenton, 

Age: 8+  | Published by: Annick Press Ltd.

ISBN: 9781554512478

Looks at the experiences of a strong-willed young Inuit girl who receives permission from her father to travel to a residential religious school run by non-Inuit outsiders, where she struggles to adapt to the new way of living.

Keywords: 
1940s,  Aklavik,  Banks Island,  Canadian history,  cultural genocide,  Indian Residential School,  Indigenous,  Inuit,  Inuvialuk girl,  Northwest Territories,