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Grand Dame

Kenojuak Ashevak Artist Kenojuak Ashevak lived most of her life in Camp Dorset, an Inuit community in the the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut, Canada.  Married at 19, Kenojuak raised a large family.  But in the harsh life of this northern territory, some of her children did not reach adulthood.  She was the first woman involved in …

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