Akia: The Other Side Bill-C31 Ellen McLeod

Ellen McLeod

was a long time editor at Akwesasne Notes

In the early twentieth century

and professor at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry

YALSA 2022

Akia: The Other Side Bill-C31 Ellen McLeodNorma Dunning is an Inuit writer, scholar, professor and grandmother. She grew up beyond the tundra and lived mainly in smaller, northern communities across Canada. In this poetry collection, the author honours Inuit who lay in the past, and Inuit who are with us now and most importantly the Inuit who are waiting to come to us. The author believes it is not okay that Inuit children and adults died and were buried in unmarked graves, their bodies never