Mini Aodla Freeman

Mini Aodla Freeman
Born
Cape Hope Islands
Occupation(s)Author, translator
Notable workLife Among the Qallunaat
SpouseMilton Freeman
Parent(s)Malla and Thomas Aodla

Mini Aodla Freeman is an Inuk playwright, writer, poet and essayist.[1]

She was born in July 1936 on Cape Hope Island (Nunaaluk) in James Bay, Northwest Territories (now Nunavut), Canada.

Mini Aodla was taken by the authorities to Bishop Horden Memorial School, a Canadian Indian residential school, on Moose Factory Island, Ontario.

When her family learnt of plans to have her adopted by a non-Inuit family, they enrolled her in the Sainte-Thérèse-de-l'Enfant-Jésus Residential School[2] in Fort George (now Chisasibi), Quebec which she attended until 1952.

Shortly after leaving school, she became a tuberculosis patient at Mountain Sanatorium[3] in Hamilton, Ontario.

  1. ^ "Freeman, Minnie Aodla | Inuit Literatures ᐃᓄᐃᑦ ᐊᓪᓚᒍᓯᖏᑦ Littératures inuites". inuit.uqam.ca. Retrieved 3 June 2021.
  2. ^ "Fort George Roman Catholic (Residence Couture)". 2022. Retrieved 25 August 2022.
  3. ^ "June 4, 1906: Sanatorium opens on Hamilton's west Mountain". The Hamilton Spectator. 23 September 2016. Retrieved 25 August 2022.