“She has quite an imagination, and I didn’t want my grandchildren thinking less of me because my name is on a story that isn’t true.” “I told Christy that if we did this, it would have to be the truth,” Pokiak-Fenton says on the phone from her home in north-eastern B.C. John-based leather and beading artist and mother of eight hesitated. When Christy Jordan-Fenton first suggested writing down some of the stories her mother-in-law, Margaret Pokiak-Fenton, had been telling for years around the family table - about living a nomadic existence in First Nations communities in Canada’s remote northern regions on the edge of the Arctic Ocean, hunting, trapping and trading with dogsleds and massive ice schooners - the Holman Island-born, Fort St.
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