My Name Is Arnaktauyok Teen Grass dancers

Grass dancers

This is a special picture book that brings the truthfulness of oral history to an elementary audience

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Using a detailed analysis of Treaty One – covering what is today southern Manitoba – she illustrates how Anishinabe laws defined Treaty One negotiations and opened the door to a “gathering of spirit

My Name Is Arnaktauyok Teen Grass dancersMy Name Is Arnaktauyok: The Life and Art of Germaine Arnaktauyok tells the story of her life in her own words: her very traditional Inuk life growing up in Nunavut at a camp near Igloolik, and her experiences later in a residential school in Chesterfield Inlet; her education as an artist in Winnipeg and Ottawa; and her return to the North, where she continues to create drawings, etchings, and illustrations that have been featured in museums and