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Mary Carpenter (Inuk writer and poet) (1943 -) is an Inuk writer and artist from Sachs Harbour, Northwest Territories, a residential school survivor and a graduate of Rutgers, Western University, and Carleton University.

Early life
Her father was the camp leader of two strong Inuvialuit clans and the Carpenter family was featured in a 1964 National Geographic article.

Residential school
In 1948 she was sent to the Immaculate Conception Roman Catholic School, part of the residential school system, in Aklavik, Northwest Territories when she was four-years-old, and remained there for ten years.

Media coverage
In a 1966 interview on The Pierre Berton Show, 23-year-old Mary Carpenter described her years in the residential school system.