Fatty Legs: A True Story

Use these links to supplement and complement students’ reading of the work and to increase their overall enjoyment of literature. Challenge them to discern parallel themes, engage through visual and aural stimuli, and delve deeper into the thematic possibilities presented by the title.

Recommended Texts for Pairing

Christy Jordan-Fenton and Margaret-Olemaun Pokiak-Fenton’s A Stranger at Home

• This follow up to Fatty Legs follows Margaret-Olemaun’s return home after the two years covered in Fatty Legs.
• The memoir focuses on how Olemaun recovered the things she lost at residential school—primarily her connection to the Inuvialuit way of life

An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States for Young People

• Adapted by Jean Mendoza and Debbie Reese from Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz’s work for adults, which chronicles the history of the United States from the perspective of the people who were already living there when Europeans arrived.
• The perspectives presented in this book challenge national myths about the founding and development of the United States and bring young readers closer to a full understanding of the complex truth of US history.
• An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States for Young People on SuperSummary

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