Anahareo (1906–1986)
Autore di Devil in deerskins : my life with Grey Owl
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Anahareo
- Altri nomi
- Bernard, Gertrude Moltke
- Data di nascita
- 1906-06-18
- Data di morte
- 1986-07-01
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- Canada
- Luogo di residenza
- Mattawa, Ontario, Canada
Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada
Northern Saskatchewan, Canada - Attività lavorative
- conservationist
- Relazioni
- Grey Owl (Archibald Belaney, husband)
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- Order of Canada (Member, 1983)
Order of Nature, International League of Animal Rights (1979) - Breve biografia
- Anahareo, or Gertrude Bernard, conservationist (b at Mattawa, Ont 18 June 1906; d at Kamloops, BC 17 June 1986). More than any other individual Anahareo played an important role in converting her husband, Grey Owl (Archibald BELANEY ), a trapper, into a dedicated conservationist. In Pilgrims of the Wild (1934), Grey Owl recounts how his young IROQUOIS wife, by saving the lives of 2 beaver kits, led him to change his whole way of life and to work for the protection of wildlife. They had a daughter, Dawn, in 1932 and the couple split up in 1936. Anahareo continued to champion the rights of wild animals. She was admitted into the Order of Nature of the Paris-based International League of Animal Rights in 1979. She is the author of an autobiography, Devil in Deerskins (1972). She was made a Member of the Order of Canada in 1983.
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In addition to romantic and adventurous, life with Archie was sometimes strenuous and exhausting, sometimes frustrating, and occasionally boring. She tried trapping, but found she didn’t have the heart for it. Then she acquired two kitten beaver. They were the orphan offspring of a beaver that Archie had trapped. After a long argument about their fate, he conceded that Gertrude could keep them as pets. This was a turning point. The beaver gradually won over Archie and he turned from trapper to conservationist. But the ex-trapper was in need of a new source of income. He was a natural storyteller, and so Gertrude encouraged him to starting writing. A few published articles on life in the wilds of Canada and the need to conserve the wilderness and its inhabitants led to a lecture, and then books and lecture tours, and by 1931 a Toronto newspaper published a picture of the couple, Grey Owl and Anahareo, names Archie had given to himself and Gertrude respectively in his writings, under the headline FULL-BLOODED INDIAN GIVES LECTURE ON WILDLIFE. Archie did nothing to “spoil their little old story.”
Life as the wife of writer, who spent his days scribbling away quietly, became boring, and soon using her knowledge of geology from a mail order course, and Anahareo was off prospecting for gold. Eventually they drifted apart, and remarried others. Then in 1938, Archie died, and the truth of his ancestry as an Englishman born and raised in England soon became public knowledge. It surprised and shocked many, including Anahareo. “Never once did I suspect that Archie was anything but what he said he was, Scotch and Indian, born in Mexico.”
Anahareo’s memoir is a fascinating portrait of life in the wilds of Canada in the early twentieth century. It was first published in 1940, and then revised and republished in 1972 is supplemented in this 2014 edition with critical notes and a bibliography.… (altro)