![]() ![]() The book is well named because Margaret is indeed "a stranger at home". She is now an "outsider" and is devastated. Her siblings look at Margaret as though she were an alien. She is unable to understand her mother and her mother does not understand her. She can not even remember how to speak her language, Invialuktun. Parents and siblings are waiting for the arrival, but when Margaret approaches her mother, she says "Not my daughter!" Margaret's hair has been cut, she is in clothing supplied by the school, and all tradition is gone. The boat bringing home the children is arriving in Tuktoyaktuk, or Tuk as they call it. I have not read "Fatty Legs", but must because it will take me into her years in school. "A Stranger at Home" tells the true story of Margaret's return to her parents in Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories and how she was snubbed by family, friends, and townspeople. ![]() It is also the life of Canada's shame, the story of how the government took the children away from all aboriginal nations and sent them to Catholic residential schools. ![]() This book is the life of author, Margaret Pokiak-Fenton, the sequel to "Fatty Legs" by the same authors. ![]()
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