Despite bullying from other girls attending the school and the racism of the school teachers, Margaret succeeds and learns to read. It turned out the school was much different from the place she imagined. The picture book tells about her life before residential school, how she travelled five days to attend the school, and her life at the school. In the introduction she explains the book's title, Fatty Legs, is the result of her destruction of the dreaded red-coloured stockings a nun forced her to wear at residential school. Olemaun Pokiak, later called Margaret, tells her story in this memoir. With important updates since it first hit the shelves a decade ago, this new edition of Fatty Legs will continue to resonate with readers young and old.įatty Legs: A True Story is a recounting of the life of an eight-year-old Banks Island Inuvialuit girl who attended Residential School.
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