Tookoolito

Tookoolito

Tookoolito started guiding at fifteen for fishing boat captains, and explorers. In 1860, she met Charles Francis Hall. He was looking to hire an Inuit guide to help locate Sir John Franklin's remains. A deep friendship grew that greatly influenced each other’s lives. This friendship was not without its conflicts.

Reneltta is writing a play about this, virtually unknown, national icon of Canadian history from the perspective of a modern Inuk woman writing about a then modern Inuk woman.