The Life and Times of Augustine Tataneuck : An Inuk Hero in Rupert's Land, 1800–1834 National Indigenous Peoples Day Anne Métis and the Papaschase

Anne Métis and the Papaschase Cree Nation

means “woman born to noble people

He is a curator

archaeology

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The Life and Times of Augustine Tataneuck : An Inuk Hero in Rupert's Land, 1800–1834 National Indigenous Peoples Day Anne Métis and the PapaschaseAugustine Tataneuck was an Inuk man born near the beginning of the 19th century on the northwestern coast of Hudson Bay. Between 1812 and 1834, his family sent him to Churchill, Manitoba, to live and work among strangers, where he could escape the harsh Arctic climate and earn a living in the burgeoning fur trade. He was perhaps the first Inuk man employed by the Hudsons Bay Company as a labourer, and he also worked as an interpreter on John Franklins