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Minik : the New York Eskimo / Kenn Harper ; foreword by Kevin Spacey.

by Harper, Kenn.

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Steerforth Press, 2017.

Wallace, Minik, 1890 or 1891-1918.

Ethnology -- Moral and ethical aspects.

Inuit -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.

Inuit -- Greenland -- Qaanaaq -- Biography.

Inuit -- Biography.

Greenland -- Discovery and exploration.

New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 19th century.

9781586422417 (pbk.)

Alternate title:

New York Eskimo

xv, 286 p. : ill., map ; 21 cm.

"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"--T. p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-270) and index.

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.

"A true story from the great age of Arctic exploration of an Inuit boy's struggle for dignity against Robert Peary and the American Museum of Natural History in turn-of-the-century New York City. Sailing aboard a ship called Hope in 1897, celebrated Arctic explorer Robert 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 six or seven with a precociously solemn smile, remained. His name was Minik. Although Harper's unflinching narrative provides a much needed corrective to history's understanding of Peary, who was known among the Polar Inuit as "the great tormenter", it is primarily a story about a boy, Minik Wallace, known to the American public as "The New York Eskimo." Orphaned when his father died of pneumonia, Minik never surrendered the hope of going "home," never stopped fighting for the dignity of his father's memory, and never gave up his belief that people would come to his aid if only he could get them to understand."--From publisher.

Harper, Kenn. Give me my father's body: the life of Minik, the New York Eskimo

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