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Rita Joe fonds
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12 cm of textual records and other materials
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Rita Joe was born at Whycocomagh, Nova Scotia on 15 March 1932, the daughter of Josie (Gould) Bernard and Annie Googoo. She was orphaned at the age of 5 and went to the Shubenacadie Residential School until the age of 16. She completed her education through the Eskasoni Education Program. She married Frank Joe on 16 January 1954 and they had eleven children. Rita became a writer and published several books, including Poems of Rita Joe (1979), Song of Eskasoni (1989), L'nu and Indians we're Called (1992) and Song of Rita Joe (1996). She received the Order of Canada in 1990, membership in the Privy Council in 1993 and honourary doctorates from Dalhousie University (1993), University College of Cape Breton (1997) and Mount Saint Vincent University (1998).
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Records were donated by Rita Joe in 1997.
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Fonds consists of correspondence; prose, poems, songs, and fragments of works by Rita Joe; personal memorabilia; photographs; clippings; and audio and video cassettes.
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Some of the poetry and prose is in Mi'kmaq.
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