Olemaun desperately wants to go to the residential school to learn to read, even though her father is against it. When he finally agrees she learns the school is not what she hoped it to be.
Olemaun‘s hair is cut, her name and warm clothes are taken away, and she learns most of “school” is chores for the nuns.
Olemaun perseveres, teaching herself to read and reminding herself of her Inuit heritage.
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