When I Was Eight (HC) Anthology reading and analyzing the photographs

reading and analyzing the photographs

an art project

in an examination of the poetics of place and space

John Borrows uses Ojibwe law

Shane Perley-Dutcher (Negootkook First Nation

When I Was Eight (HC) Anthology reading and analyzing the photographsWhen I was Eight is the 32 page picture book adaptation of Margaret Pokiak Fenton's book, Fatty Legs: A True Story. Margaret and her daughter in law, Christy Jordan Fenton have adapted Margaret's childhood story about her life in a residential school when she was a child. This picture book memoir begins with Olemaun (the stone that sharpens the womens knife, the ulu) living on the land with her family. Her older sister has attended residential school