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Dorothy Harley Eber CM (Order of Canada) is a Canadian author and the first person to transcribe and publish oral histories of Inuit people in  Nunavut ( their Canadian homeland) in both English and Inuktitut.She has devoted much of her life to preserving the history of the Inuit people.In the 1970s, she was one of the first writers to record their oral history on tape. She then completed the first oral biography of an Inuit person based on first hand accounts. Printed in both English and Inuktitut, Inuit sometimes said Pitseolak: Pictures out of my Life (1971) was the first book, after the Bible, to be published in the Inuit native tongue. She has produced numerous other books,texts, articles, films and exhibitions, helping Canadians to understand the complexities and importance of Inuit culture. She is invited regularly to present at museums and cultural institutions worldwide, international conferences, and has contributed articles to international journals.She has served on committees to judge annual Inuit art competitions.

Biography Dorothy Harley Eber was born in England of Welsh and Nova Scotian parentage and spent her early childhood in Wales and England. She attended schools in Wales, England, Ontario and Nova Scotia and  is a graduate of the University of Toronto. After graduation she worked as a reporter and in 1968 made her first trip to the Arctic to the community of Cape Dorset, famous for its Inuit artists. She returned in 1970 to do interviews with the graphic artist Pitseolak Ashoona. The book, with Pitseolak's drawings and prints, was published the next year and has never been out of print. Since that time she has undertaken many more interview projects in the North. Over many summers, she has also interviewed residents of Baddeck, Nova Scotia, who worked with Alexander Graham Bell on the hydrofoil and the tetrahedral kites which he developed there after the telephone made him famous. Her book Genius at Work:Images of Alexander Graham Bell was published in 1982 by The Viking Press, New York and later by Nimbus, Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Partial Bibliography
 * Explorers Encounters on the Passage: Inuit Meet the Explorers (University of Toronto Press, 2008; paperback 2010)
 * Images of Justice: A Legal History of the Northwest Territories as Traced through the Yellowknife Courthouse Collection of Inuit Sculpture. (McGill-Queen's University Press, 1997)
 * When the Whalers were Up North: Inuit Memories from the Eastern Arctic.( McGill-Queen's University Press, 1989)
 * Pitseolak: Pictures out of my Life (2nd Edition, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2003)
 * People from our Side: A Life Story with Photographs and Oral Biography, by Peter Pitseolak and Dorothy Harley Eber (Hurtig Publishers, 1975; Indiana University Press, 1975; McGill-Queen's University Press,1993)
 * Genius at Work: Images of Alexander Graham Bell. With Prologue by R. Buckminster Fuller. (The Viking Press, 1982; Nimbus Publishing, Halifax, 1991)