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Magaret Pokiak is born on Holman Island in the Northwest Territories, Canada
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Pokiak begs to attend the Immaculate Conception residential school because of her strong desire to learn to read despite its horrific reputation and her father's opposition https://www.cbc.ca/radio/unreserved/exploring-the-link-between-education-and-reconciliation-1.3742630/residential-school-memoir-set-to-become-new-canadian-children-s-classic-1.3744495
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She meets her husband, Lyle Fenton, while working for the Hudson’s Bay Company in Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories. (date is unknown, but they met in her early twenties) Together they have 7 children:Doug, Lyle Jr., Margaret Jr., Garth, Shawn, Pine and Jane
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Publishes her first short story "Fatty Legs" - a memoir about a young Inuvialuit girl's two years at a religious residential school. It is based on the experiences of Margaret Pokiak-Fenton, who cowrote the novel with her daughter-in-law Christy Jordan-Fenton -
Margaret Olemaun Pokiak-Fenton was an Inuvialuit author of children's books, story keeper and a residential school survivor. She is known for her stories: "When I was Eight," "A Stranger at Home: A True Story" and "Not My Girl"