Let Ookpiks Fly
by Ken Crassweller

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Working with Canadian Indians and Inuit in the northern provinces and arctic resulted in the author's involvement and comment on some controversial issues. This led to accounts related to first hand experiences connected with native education on reserves. In teaching in residential schools, Inuit arts and crafts development is woven into accounts is social and religious justice issue comment.

Ken Crassweller was born in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. He climbed poles for Sask Telephone Company, worked for the Hudson's Bay Co. Fur Trade in northern Saskatchewan and Manitoba, taught Indian and Inuit children in northern Manitoba, Northern Quebec and Ellesmere Island, Northwest Territories.

He once operated a HBC camp trade. Later he served with Industry and Development, of the Federal Government Northern Affairs in Fort Chimo, Quebec, Iqaluit (Frobisher Bay), NWT, and in Ottawa, and with the Gov't. of NWT, in Yellowknife.

Over those years he traveled the Arctic, sharing in providing of material, financial, and technical assistance to the Inuit (Eskimo) artists, carvers, and crafts people.

He earned a B.Ed at the University of British Columbia in Art Education, and an MA, in Community and Regional Planning with an emphasis on Arctic Settlements. He later earned a degree from St. Andrew's College in Saskatoon, Sask., was ordained in the United Church of Canada, and served in churches in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, British Columbia, and Alberta, Canada. Once, he served as principal of an Indian Band run-school in Northern Saskatchewan.

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ISBN-10:	1412015812
ISBN-13/EAN:	9781412015813
Author:	Ken Crassweller
Publisher:	Trafford Publishing Victoria, BC
Pages:	234 pp
Size/Dimensions:	9 x 6
Binding:	Paperback