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Originally published: Frobisher Bay, NWT : Blacklead Books, c1986 Foreword -- Introduction -- Peary's people -- The iron mountain -- Arrival in America -- An eskimo 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 eskimo again -- The Thule station -- Uisaakassak: the big liar -- Wanted: dead or alive -- The Crocker land expedition -- Back on broadway -- The north country -- Epilogue --Afterword -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgements -- Photo credits -- Index Includes bibliographical references and index "From the golden age of polar exploration comes the untold story of Minik, a young Eskimo boy from northwestern Greenland, brought to New York in 1897 by the American explorer Robert Peary. Minik, along with his father and four others, was presented to the American Museum of Natural History as one of six Eskimo "specimens." Four members of the group, including Minik's father, quickly died of exposur

Author

Kenn Harper; Kevin Spacey

Publisher

South Royalton, Vt.: Steerforth Press

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9781883642532

Subjects

History, Biography, Memoir

Updated

2026-03-24