Kukasheka biography of michael

Canadian Inuk children's writer and storyteller

Michael Arvaarluk Kusugak (Inuktitut: ᐊᕐᕚᕐᓗᒃ ᑯᓱᒐᖅ) is a Canadian Inuk storyteller and children's writer, who tells stories about Arctic and Inuit culture.

He was born April 27, 1948, just north of Chesterfield Inlet, at a point of land called Qatiktalik (known as Cape Fullterton in English). That same spring of 1948, he and his family moved to Repulse Bay and in 1960 to Rankin Inlet.

As of 2022, he lives in Manitoba, near Lake Winnipeg.^[1]

In 1954, a plane arrived and at the age of six, Michael Kusugak and many of his friends were sent away to residential school. The teachers were strict and did not allow the children to speak their own language, Inuktitut.

Kukasheka biography of michael jackson

Kusugak remembers sitting in the back of the class crying most of the time. The following year, Michael successfully hid when the plane came to take him and his friends away again. However, he returned the following year and became one of the first I