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Anahareo (Gertrude Bernard) (18 June 1906 – 17 June 1986) Anahareo, born Gertrude Bernard, was an Algonquin and Mohawk writer and conservationist was born in Mattawa, Ontario. Anahareo is largely known as the wife of Grey Owl (Archibald Belaney), the trapper, writer and famed conservationist who claimed to be part Scots and part Apache, but was revealed to be an Englishman after his death in ...
In the image at left taken from the 1851 Census, one of Anahareo's paternal great-grandfathers, François Papineau, a 45-year-old Chief of the Nipissing, is listed at the very top of the page.Directly below him is his wife, Marie Otickwekijikokwe (37) and two young children, Cecile (5) and Bernard (1), possibly Anahareo's Great-Aunt and Great-Uncle.
Anahareo was a gifted writer, environmentalist, and activist. She was also the wife of Grey Owl, a.k.a. Archie Belaney, the internationally acclaimed English-turned-Indian writer and speaker who dazzled audiences with his stories of life in the wilderness and his posthumous outing as an imposter. Devil in Deerskins is Anahareo's autobiography up to and including her marriage to Grey Owl.
Anahareo had the courage to do what she felt was right, ignoring what the world thought of her stepping out of her place, speaking her mind, and looking to her own conscience for approval. …. In the process, she turned a hunter and trapper into a conservationist and author, and forever changed our relationship with nature.”.
Prince Albert National Park. The English author and conservationist Archibald Belaney (who called himself Grey Owl) and his Mohawk wife Gertrude Bernard (also known as Anahareo) lived and worked in Riding Mountain and Prince Albert National Parks in the 1930s. While working for these parks, Belaney passed himself off as Indigenous.
Whether she was a small town First Nations girl or an international celebrity promoting wilderness conservation, Anahareo always followed her own mind. Growing up with the name Gertrude, an Algonquin/Mohawk girl in a small Ontario town during the First World War, Anahareo was more at home climbing trees and swimming in the river than playing with dolls or sewing samplers.
Anahareo. 110 likes. Anahareo wife of Grey Owl, was an Algonquin writer, animal rights activist and conservationist an one of Canada's first public...
