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The chapter describes their father’s career in the northern school system, the paternalism of the school system, her fathers role in running the residential school, and the original inhabitants of the area, the T’atsaot’ine, the Copper People or the Yellowknives.

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Margaret Macpherson

Raised in Yellowknife (now Denendeh) NWT, Margaret quickly got an education in the real world, traveling extensively in Europe, Australia, and Central America before settling into an English Lit undergraduate degree in the early 80’s at the University of New Brunswick, Fredericton. Margaret wrote for periodicals and magazines (as well as being sole employee of a Halifax volunteer-run leftist bookstore) during her eight years in Atlantic Canada before venturing to Bermuda as a full-time reporter.