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| Video Discription | And the boy who fought the museum that took everything from him. Subscribe to our channel! http://goo.gl/0bsAjO In 1897, American explorer Robert Peary returned from his latest Arctic expedition to Greenland with an enormous iron meteorite, which he had taken from a small tribe of Greenlandic Inuit, the Inughuit. Also on board his ship were six Inughuit. Peary had convinced them to come with him to New York to be studied by the American Museum of Natural History in exchange for guns and tools. But soon after getting back to New York, Peary left on a promotional speaking tour. The six Inughuit never saw him again. Within a few months of exposure to the warmer climate, four of the Inughuit โ Qisuk, Nuktaq, Atangana, and Aviaq โ had died of respiratory disease. And another, Uisaakasak, asked to return to Greenland on one of Pearyโs ships. The only Inuk left was 9-year-old Minik, Qisukโs son. The museum officials told Minik they buried his fatherโs body, but that was a lie. They had actually stored Qisukโs remains inside the museum to study. Minik grew up in New York and went by the name Mene Wallace. In 1907, he learned the truth about his father and publicly pleaded with the museum to return Qisukโs remains to him so he could give him a proper burial, but the museum refused. Minik eventually returned to Greenland on one of Pearyโs ships in 1909 and needed to relearn Inughuit customs and his native language, Inuktun. The American Museum of Natural History kept the remains of the four Inughuit who died in its care until 1993. Today, there is no mention inside the museum of Minik or the other five Inughuit brought to New York in 1897. The giant meteorite Peary took, however, remains a signature exhibit. Further reading: โMinik the New York Eskimoโ โ Kenn Harperโs updated follow-up to his original book about Minik, โGive Me My Fatherโs Bodyโ https://steerforth.com/product/minik-the-new-york-eskimo-9781586422417/ โInuit Voices: Inuit Writing in Englishโ โ this book features writing from Minik https://archive.org/details/northernvoicesin0000unse/page/80/mode/2up Support Vox's reporting with a one-time or recurring contribution: http://vox.com/give-now Vox.com is a news website that helps you cut through the noise and understand what's really driving the events in the headlines. Check out http://www.vox.com. Watch our full video catalog: http://goo.gl/IZONyE Follow Vox on Facebook: http://goo.gl/U2g06o Or Twitter: http://goo.gl/XFrZ5H yvdtWfHpCR4 |
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