![]() ![]() The story of the two school years, however, is ultimately one about triumph, perseverance, and resilience. The title Fatty Legs comes from a nickname that other students used to torment Margaret-Olemaun author after a cruel nun made her wear unflattering bright red stockings while the other girls wore gray. and was marked by the same assimilation mission and abusive treatment of pupils). ![]() Her recollections match the patterns of thousands of other residential school students who have published accounts or given interviews of their time in residential schools across the continent (a similar system extended through the U.S. Intimidation, humiliation, abuse, and suffering marked Margaret-Olemaun’s schooling experience. At eight years old, Olemaun Pokiak (her birth name) left her home on Banks Island, within the ancestral homelands of her Inuvialuit community (the Inuit people of the Northwestern Arctic in present-day Canada) and went to the residential Catholic school in Aklavik, on the mainland. ![]()
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