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“One Day, Somebody is Going to Forget”: A Conversation with Mini Aodla Freeman
Elevator
First Day At Work
Lost
Alikatu
Loneliness Had Many Reasons
I Knew Him and Yet Not
The Screen Had To Do With It
My Clothes Were Valuable
So Close Together and Yet So Far Apart
Exhibition
Exciting for a Qallunaat Girl
It’s a Terrible Dream
To Please a Friend
They Are Out of the Box
I Did Not Hear Him Arrive
Grandmother’s Qullik Was Very Bright
It and Her
Almost Lost an Arm for a Stamp
Grandmother’s Helpers
Grandmother’s Elegance Came In Handy
Artificial River
I Would Like to See to Whom I Am Talking
Something Familiar?
Meeting a Grand Lady
Dog Meat in the South?
They Too Have Their Own Way of Writing
I Hate Water
My Most Silly Moment
My First Square Dance in the South
Twenty-One, but One Year Old in the South
I Thought I Was a Queen
Caught Between Two Lives
A House In the Air
He Wrote Only Few Words
My Feelings Were Hurt
Visiting a Mint
We Were Nomads
The Fish Like to Be Dressed Up For
Hospital Visits
Newspaper Office
Buttons Count a Lot
My Frustration
Feeling Crushed
Just Close Your Eyes and Eat
Goose Pimples All Over
He Read Backwards
Life Or Death
So Many and So Quiet
I Have Seen Many Deaths
I Am In the Middle
“Life-or-Death” Had a Reason
I Am Crazy About It
Language Was Pulling
Silly Cry
Second Look
Inuit in the South
The Situation Was Familiar
Weetaltuk Died and They Became Weak
My Inuk Way That I Was Born Into
I Remember
It Was a Strange Winter
I Will Never Know Another Summer Like That
Trading Was a Chore But Necessary
They Came Bearing Gifts
The World War in the Qallunaat World Rubbed on Us Too
Did They Really Pamper Their Eyebrows?
Other Fears Emerged
It Was a Time of Joy and a Time to Learn
To Learn Is Sometimes Painful
James Bay Robbers
It Was Peaceful
No More Baby Hammocks
The Doll Lasted Much Longer on the Wall
Nature Can Be Mean Sometimes
Giant Berries
Grandmother Sometimes Needed Help
Grandparents Seemed to Have Made It For Me
I Was Dumped
My Feet Were Smelly But They Were Warm
I Think I Was Kidnapped
They Came To Get Me But They Had No Ransom
So Much Had Happened While I Was Away
School Is Not the Only Place of Education
Pain, Pain and More Pain
Getting Used To It Is Part of Survival
Bad Pains Have Good Rewards?
A Mourning Trip
Desperate Chance
We Almost Had an Indian Mother
Father Knew How to Hold Our Tongues
How Grandmother Got Flat Fingers
Common to Natives, But Not to Doctors
She Had Cold Hands, But the Least Painful
One Could Tell That They Were Warriors
Growing Pains
Mighty, Fantastic and Mysterious
Only Beaver Pelt Collectors
Nobody Told Me That I Had to Grow Strange
Certainly It Was a Time of Joy
To Become a Woman Is Even Stranger
One Drains Blood to Grow Up
Adults Get Disappointed Too
Bad Times Are Sometimes Good Luck
Innocent Woman
Brother Was Growing Too
Novelty Creates Smells
The Sick Gave Me Strength
What I Needed Was Physical Strength
We Were Shipped Like Cargo
We Kept Our Homes at the Backs of Our Minds
Nightingale Kept Calling Me
Home Was Just Meant to Be a Memory
Housework is a Lonely Affair
I Still Knew How to be Happy
Father, Please Take Me Home
Father Had His Own Reasons
Harmony Is Not Forever
Did the Drink Drive Me Crazy?
Grandmother Was Always Right
Machines Are Cold
They Were Strangers More Than I
The Agent Was Still After Me
How Do I Like the Weather?
Photographs
Life After Life Among The Qallunaat
Works Cited
About the Author
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