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Gertrude Bernard (June 18, 1906 – June 17, 1986), commonly known as Anahareo, was a writer, animal rights activist and conservationist of Algonquin and Mohawk ancestry. Biography Gertrude Bernard was born in Mattawa, Ontario, on June 18, 1906. Her mother, Mary Nash Ockiping, was Algonquin. Her father, Matthew Bernard, was Algonquin and Mohawk. She grew up a strongly independent girl and young woman, and was described as something of a tomboy. Her father nicknamed her "Pony".When Bernard was 19, she met Archibald Belaney at Camp Wabikon in Temagami, Canada, where she was working as a waitress and he as a guide. Almost twice her age at 36, Belaney, who would come to be known as Grey Owl, claimed to be the son of a Scottish man and an Apache woman and to have been born in Mexico. As they got to know one another, she insisted on accompanying him to his traplines. She did not approve of the way he was living, and encouraged him to stop his trapping activities and become an animal rights activist. In Pilgrims of the Wild (1934), Belaney recounts how Anahareo, by saving the lives of two beaver kits and raising them, led him to change his way of life and to work for the protection of wildlife. They considered themselves married, albeit informally, despite the fact he was still legally married to his first wife Angele Egwuna. They had one daughter, Dawn, born in 1932.The couple split up in 1936. Belaney died in 1938, a best-selling author. Shortly after his death, it was publicly revealed that he was not part-Apache as he had claimed, but an Englishman named Archibald Stansfeld Belaney. In 1940 Bernard, using the name Anahareo that Belaney had given her, wrote a book called My Life With Grey Owl with the encouragement of Belaney's publisher, Lovat Dickson. She was dissatisfied with it, in part because her lack of control over the final publication; it stereotyped her, as she put it, as "a sweet gentle Indian maiden." In 1972, she wrote the best-seller, Devil in Deerskins: My Life With Grey Owl, in which she denied having known Belaney's true origins. She said she had been hurt to discover his deception.In June, 1937, Anahareo gave birth to a second daughter, Ann. The father's name did not appear on the birth certificate and she never publicly stated who the father was.In 1939, she married a Swedish nobleman, Count Eric Axel Moltke-Huitfeldt, who had immigrated to Canada. They had one daughter, Katharine. Her husband died in 1963. Over the 50 years following her separation from Belaney, Anahareo, as she is now better known, continued to be active in the conservation and animal rights movement. In 1979 she was admitted into the Order of Nature of the Paris-based International League of Animal Rights. She was elected a Member of the Order of Canada in 1983. On June 17, 1986, just a day before her 80th birthday, Anahareo died in Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada. Anahareo's writings My Life With Grey Owl (1940) Devil in Deerskins: My Life with Grey Owl (1972)See also Grey OwlReferences Further reading Kristin Gleeson: Anahareo: A Wilderness Spirit. Fireship Press, Tucson 2012 ISBN 1611792207 Kristin Gleeson: Blazing Her Own Trail: Anahareo's Rejection of Euro-Canadian Stereotypes, in Recollecting: Lives of Aboriginal Women of the Canadian Northwest and Borderlands, edited by Sarah Carter, Patricia McCormack, Athabasca University Press, 2010. The publication has won the Canadian Historical Association's Aboriginal history book prize, 2011External links "Anahareo", The Canadian Encyclopedia. Discover the Kristin Gleeson popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Kristin Gleeson books.

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    The Imp of Eye

    Kristin Gleeson & Moonyeen Blakey

    London, 1440A youth and a Duchess are caught up in a web of royal intrigue the heady days before the Wars of the Roses.Barnabas, an orphan who lives by his wits, finds he must do t...

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    The Imp of Eye

    Kristin Gleeson

    While the storm clouds of the Wars of the Roses gather in fifteenth century London, Barnabas, a streetwise thirteen yearold orphan, dreams of sailing away to foreign countries. His...

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    Along the Far Shores

    Kristin Gleeson

    A 12th century Irishwoman sets out on the legendary voyage to America of Prince Madog of Wales. Aisling, despite her best efforts has failed to become the seer her mother desired, ...

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    The Mists of Glen Strae

    Kristin Gleeson

    From a USA Today bestselling author comes a tale of love and intrigue.Scotland, Summer 1556Desperation drives Abby Gordon to seek refuge with Iain MacGregor and ask his help but wi...

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    The Sea of Travail

    Kristin Gleeson

    England 1445After four years the threat of arrest for witchcraft still hangs over Barnabas and he continues to pose as Giacomo, not daring to return to England for his ch...

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    The Quest of Hope

    Kristin Gleeson

    Venice/Africa 1446Only revenge can make Barnabas whole again.Dependent on opium and driven by anger over his former mentor's appalling treachery, Barnabas leaves his beloved Alys i...

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    Song of the Bees

    Kristin Gleeson

    From the author of the USA Today bestselling novel, In Praise of the Bees, is another tale of Medieval Ireland in a time of turmoil and change.Ireland 1349Inside the nunnery of St ...

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    The Braes of Huntly

    Kristin Gleeson

    From a USA Today bestselling author comes a tale of danger, intrigue and love.Scotland,   Autumn 1556.Abby wants nothing more than to be reunited with Iain, but her fathe...

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    The Hostage of Glenorchy

    Kristin Gleeson

    From a USA Today bestselling author comes a tale of love and intrigueScotland 1556 A lute player's disguise seems the best way Abby Gordon can avoid her enemies, until the cas...

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    Rise of the Celtic Gods Books 1-3

    Kristin Gleeson

    A tale of magic, myth and Irish music.Fate takes Saoirse out of Dublin to rural West Cork and a mysterious grandmother who opens up her world to her impossible heritage connected t...

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    Highland Ballad Series

    Kristin Gleeson

    Scotland 1556 Are loyalty and honour more important than love?After overhearing a plot to kill Mary Queen of Scots, Abby Gordon is sent from Paris to the Laird of Glenorchy's ...

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    The Pursuit of the Unicorn

    Kristin Gleeson

    Venice 1447Barnabas and Alys have returned to Venice from Africa to find that Alessandra, the former courtesan, has vanished with their young daughter, Eleanor.  Thwarted in h...

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    Raven Brought the Light

    Kristin Gleeson

    Love is eternal, crossing time spans. To escape recent betrayal and loss, Irish archaeology student, Bríd Ní Laoghaire seizes the chance to be a last minute replacement on a dig in...

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    In Praise of the Bees

    Kristin Gleeson

    A USA Today bestseller!'a fascinating novel that gives a real sense of life as it might have been during one of the most turbulent periods in Irish history...' Irish ExaminerIrelan...