When I Was Eight (HC) University Using the official transcripts from

Using the official transcripts from Canada's Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples (RCAP) as the basis of his work

and identity and can offer a unique methodology to understand Métis society as it deals with outside economic and spiritual institutions while maintaining a viable and vibrant society

impacts of residential school

Drawing from Indigenous oral traditions as well as Western historiography

Brian Chartier

When I Was Eight (HC) University Using the official transcripts fromWhen 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