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Minik: The New York Eskimo: An Arctic Explorer, a Museum, and the Betrayal of the Inuit People

In 1897, celebrated Arctic explorer Robert Peary brought six Polar Inuit, intended to serve as live `specimens` at the American Museum of Natural History, to New York. 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. Orphaned when his father died of pneumonia, Minik never surrender 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.

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