Minik : the New York Eskimo

Harper, Kenn, author.

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"Sailing aboard a ship called Hope, celebrated explorer Peary entered New York Harbor with peculiar "cargo": six Polar Inuit intended to serve as live "specimens" at the American Museum of Natural History. Four died within a year. One managed to gain passage back to Greenland. Only the sixth, a boy of seven or eight with a precociously solemn smile, remained. His name was Minik. This significantly revised and updated edition of Kenn Harper's land...

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Arctic regions Discovery and exploration

Ethnology Moral and ethical aspects

Polar Inuit Biography

Polar Inuit New York (State) New York Biography

Wallace, Minik, 1890 or 1891-1918

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ISBN:

9781586422417
1586422413

Edition:

First edition

Description:

xv, 286 pages, 48 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 21 cm

Notes:

"An Arctic explorer, a museum, and the betrayal of the Inuit people"--Cover
"This is a greatly revised and updated version of an earlier work published as Give me my father's body: the life of Minik, the New York Eskimo"--Title page verso
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-270) and index

Contents:

Arrival in America
Peary's people
The iron mountain
An Inuit orphan in New York
Minik, the American
The Wallace affair
Scam
"Destined to a life of tears"
Give me my father's body
In the interest of science
"The very pitiful case of Minik"
"A hopeless condition of exile"
The polar plan
Runaway
"An iron-clad agreement"
Return to Greenland
An Inuk again
The Thule station
Uisaakassak: the big liar
Wanted: dead or alive
The Crocker land expedition
On thin ice
Back on Broadway
The north country
"They have come home"
Epilogue

Control Number:

2476388

Other Authors:

Spacey, Kevin, writer of foreword

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