In Those Days: Inuit and Explorers

Kenn Harper is a historian, writer, and linguist, a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and the Royal Canadian Geographical Society, and a former member of the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada. He is the author of the In Those Days series, Minik: The New York Eskimo, and Thou Shalt Do No Murder: Inuit, Injustice, and the Canadian Arctic. “Taissumani,” his column on Arctic history, appears in Nunatsiaq News.

• Table of ContentsIntroductionA Note on Word ChoicePrefaceCollected WritingsAbduction: The “Countrie People” of Baffin Island Meet Martin Frobisher“They Spake, But We Understood Them Not”: Christopher Hall’s Inuktitut Word List“Take Heed of the Savage People”: Hudson’s Mutineers Meet the InuitSlaughter at Bloody FallThe Return of The Dog-Children: Parry and Lyon at IglulikParry’s Medallions“A Greater Instance of Courage has not been Recorded”: Tatannuaq, the PeacemakerFirst Encounter: The Nattilingmiut Meet John RossA Wooden Leg for Tulluahiu“The Deep Footprints of Tired Men”: John Franklin’s Lost Expedition“A Nice Steady Lad and a Favourite with his Tribe”: Albert One-EyeCharles Dickens, John Rae, and the “Good Interpreter, William Ouligbuck”Inuit Evidence in a British CourtA Fortuitous Meeting: Tookoolito and Ipiirvik, and Charles Francis HallInuit Adrift: 1,500 Miles on an Ice FloeAn Inuit Plan to Find the North PoleRobert Peary, the Inughuit, and the Iron MountainMinik, the New York Eskimo: A Victim of Peary’s NeglectI Will Find a Way or Fake One: Robert Peary Claims the North PoleIttukusuk, Aapilak , and Daagtikoorsuaq: Travels with Dr. Cook“The Trail That Is Always New”: Matthew Henson and his Inuit FamilyInughuit and the Myth of Crocker LandGetting Away with MurderSovereignty 101: Captain Joseph-Elzéar Bernier and the Inuit “We’re Going to Keep On Living”: Ruth Makpii Ipalook on Stefansson’s Karluk Expedition “I Thank God for Living”: Ada Blackjack and Stefansson’s Wrangel Island FiascoJoe Panipakuttuk on the St. Roch: Through the Northwest Passage

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