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• Title:From the tundra to the trenches / Eddy Weetaltuk ; edited and with a foreword by Thibault Martin ; introduction by Isabelle St-Amand.
  
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• Author/Creator:Weetaltuk, Eddy, 1932-2005, author.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Martin, Thibault, 1963- editor, writer of foreword.
  St-Amand, Isabelle, writer of introduction.
  Xwi7xwa Collection.
  
• Published/Created:Winnipeg, Manitoba : University of Manitoba Press, [2016]
  ©2016
  

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  • Location:XWI7XWA LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: YS W44 T86 2016
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• FNHL (Xwi7xwa) Subjects:Inuit--Canada
  Inuit--Veterans.
  Inuit--Soldiers.
  
• Library of Congress Subjects:Weetaltuk, Eddy, 1932-2005.
  Korean War, 1950-1953--Canada
  Soldiers--Canada
  
• Genre/Form:Biographies
  
• Edition:New English edition.
  
• Description:xlviii, 210 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 cm
  
• Series:First voices, first texts ; 4.
  
• Summary:"'My name is Weetaltuk; Eddy Weetaltuk. My Eskimo tag name is E9-422.' So begins From the 'Tundra to the Trenches.' Weetaltuk means 'innocent eyes' in Inuktitut, but to the Canadian government, he was known as E9-422: E for Eskimo, 9 for his community, 422 to identify Eddy. In 1951, Eddy decided to leave James Bay. Because Inuit weren't allowed to leave the North, he changed his name and used this new identity to enlist in the Canadian Forces: Edward Weetaltuk, E9-422, became Eddy Vital, SC-17515, and headed off to fight in the Korean War. In 1967, after fifteen years in the Canadian Forces, Eddy returned home. He worked with Inuit youth struggling with drug and alcohol addiction, and, in 1974, started writing his life's story."-- Provided by publisher.
  
• Additional formats:Issued also in electronic formats.
  
• Local note:First Nations author.
  First Nations illustrator.
  
• Notes:Previously published in French translation under title: E9-422, un Inuit, de la toundra à la guerre de Corée.
  Includes bibliographical references.
  
• ISBN:9780887558221 (paperback)
  0887558224 (paperback)
  9780887555367 (pdf)
  9780887555343 (epub)
  
• Contents:Chapter 1 : Weetaltuk, or the Times of Innocence
  Chapter 2 : At the Boarding School
  Chapter 3 : How Eddy Weetaltuk (E9-422) became Eddy Vital, Canadian Private (SC-17515)
  Chapter 4 : Training to Become a Soldier
  Chapter 5 : From the Island of Pleasure to the Inferno
  Chapter 6 : Culture Clash
  Chapter 7 : Life Goes On
  Chapter 8 : In Prison and in Love
  Conclusion.