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Teachers -- Grise Fiord (Inuit community) -- Biography.
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Barr, Odette, 1960-
Barr, Odette, 1960-
Teachers -- Grise Fiord (Inuit community) -- Biography.
Inuit -- Education -- Grise Fiord (Inuit community).
Inuit -- Grise Fiord (Inuit community) -- Social life and customs.
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Teaching at the top of the world / Odette Barr.
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Barr, Odette, 1960-
Pottersfield Press, 2020.
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.10092
B268t
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Barr, Odette, 1960-
Teachers -- Grise Fiord (Inuit community) -- Biography.
Inuit -- Education -- Grise Fiord (Inuit community).
Inuit -- Grise Fiord (Inuit community) -- Social life and customs.
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9781989725030 (pbk.)
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183 p. ; 21 cm.
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"Odette Barr and her partner, YoAnne Beauchamp, spent nearly ten years completely immersed in Inuit culture in the decade prior to the official birth of Nunavut Territory in 1999. This is the account of their experiences as teachers and community members in Pangnirtung, Hall Beach, and Grise Fiord. It centres on Grise Fiord, Canada's most northern permanently inhabited community, nestled on the south shore of Ellesmere Island. It is a stunningly beautiful hamlet of about 150 people (at that time). It is also one of the High Arctic Exile communities--the history of which very few Canadians are aware. This memoir is a love story of sorts that expresses great respect for Inuit people, their culture, and the magnificent Arctic landscape. Odette and YoAnne learned quickly that to be successful northern teachers, you must enter into the lives of your students and their rich culture in meaningful and significant ways. They enthusiastically participated in community activities; they ate Northern foods; they snowmobiled out onto the land to take part in camping, fishing, and hunting activities; and they learned as much Inuktitut language as they could. In turn, Odette and YoAnne were warmly welcomed and they were deeply touched by their complete acceptance as a lesbian couple in these remote places. Odette Barr is a writer, an artist, a naturalist, and an educator. She now works for the Department of Education, developing and facilitating online courses, mostly science, for senior high school students throughout New Brunswick. Odette and YoAnne live on the Northumberland Strait shore in the southeastern part of the province."--From publisher.
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