Give Me My Father's Body : The Life of Minik, the New York Eskimo,9781883642532

Give Me My Father's Body : The Life of Minik, the New York Eskimo

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ISBN13: 9781883642532
ISBN10: 1883642531
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2000-03-01
Publisher(s): Random House Inc
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Summary

In 1897, American explorer Robert Peary brought Minik Wallace, a young Polar Eskimo, from northwestern Greenland to New York. During his 12 years in America, Minik's adoptive family went from riches to rags, and Minik's own life was shattered by the traumatic discovery of his father's skeleton on display in the American Museum of Natural History. Sent back to Greenland in 1909, Minik had to relearn his native language and hunting skills to survive. Told here for the first time, this dark chapter from the golden age of Polar expedition is based on original research in Greenland, Denmark, and the U.S.

Author Biography

Kenn Harper has lived in the Arctic for over thirty years in Inuit communities in the Baffin Region and in Qaanaaq, Greenland. He has worked as a teacher, development officer, historian, linguist, and businessman. He speaks Inuktitut, the Eskimo language of the eastern Canadian Arctic, and has written extensively on northern history and the Inuktitut language. He presently lives in Iqaluit, capital of the new Arctic territory of Nunavut, and was recently elected a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.

Table of Contents

Foreword xi
Introduction xv
Peary's People
1(10)
The Iron Mountain
11(10)
Arrival in America
21(12)
An Eskimo Orphan in New York
33(10)
Minik, the American
43(12)
The Wallace Affair
55(10)
Scam
65(10)
``Destined to a Life of Tears''
75(8)
Give Me My Father's Body
83(8)
In the Interest of Science
91(8)
``The Very Pitiful Case of Minik''
99(10)
``A Hopeless Condition of Exile''
109(12)
The Polar Plan
121(6)
Runaway
127(10)
``An Iron-Clad Agreement''
137(12)
Return to Greenland
149(8)
An Eskimo Again
157(10)
The Thule Station
167(6)
Uisaakassak: The Big Liar
173(6)
Wanted: Dead or Alive
179(12)
The Crocker Land Expedition
191(14)
Back on Broadway
205(8)
The North Country
213(7)
Epilogue 220(5)
Afterword 225(6)
Appendix 231(6)
Notes 237(20)
Bibliography 257(8)
Acknowledgments 265(4)
Photo Credits 269(4)
Index 273

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