![]() ![]() Although she had a challenging time at the Immaculate Conception residential school, she returned to school to accompany her younger sisters. Īfter two years of schooling, Pokiak-Fenton moved back to her family, which was in Tuktoyaktuk at the time. In a 2020 interview with Shelagh Rogers on CBC's The Next Chapter, Pokiak-Fenton related that over the two years she forgot her language, food, and "everything." When she returned home she could no longer communicate with her mother because her mother did not speak English. After Pokiak-Fenton entered residential school she did not see her parents for two years. Her book Fatty Legs describes this experience and reveals her eagerness to learn how to read and her desire to join school, in spite of the oppressive atmosphere present in these schools. She had a strong desire to learn how to read and begged to go to the school, despite its horrific reputation. When she was eight years old she travelled to Aklavik, a fur trading settlement founded by her great-grandfather, to attend the Immaculate Conception residential school, run by the Roman Catholic Church. ![]() ![]() Pokiak-Fenton's community of the Inuvialuit settlement region. ![]()
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