Where many Canadians have only started learning about this country’s residential schools, Grade 11 student Waylon Fenton has known about them since early childhood.
He was just a preschooler when his Inuvialuit grandmother, Margaret Olemaun Pokiak-Fenton, and his mom, author Christy Jordan-Fenton, began publishing some of the former’s stories about attending residential school in the High Arctic as books for children.
His paternal grandmother’s devotion to their culture, her triumphs and her resilience in overcoming fierce hardships — explored in part in the books Fatty Legs, A Stranger at Home, When I was Eight and Not My Girl — continue to
