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 Contents

Introduction

A Note on Word Choice

Preface

Collected Writings

Abduction: 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 Inuit

Slaughter at Bloody Fall

The Return of The Dog-Children: Parry and Lyon at Iglulik

Parry's Medallions

"A Greater Instance of Courage has not been Recorded": Tatannuaq, the Peacemaker

First Encounter: The Nattilingmiut Meet John Ross

A 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-Eye

Charles Dickens, John Rae, and the "Good Interpreter, William Ouligbuck"

Inuit Evidence in a British Court

A Fortuitous Meeting: Tookoolito and Ipiirvik, and Charles Francis Hall

Inuit Adrift: 1,500 Miles on an Ice Floe

An Inuit Plan to Find the North Pole

Robert Peary, the Inughuit, and the Iron Mountain

Minik, the New York Eskimo: A Victim of Peary's Neglect

I Will Find a Way or Fake One: Robert Peary Claims the North Pole

Ittukusuk, Aapilak , and Daagtikoorsuaq: Travels with Dr. Cook

"The Trail That Is Always New": Matthew Henson and his Inuit Family

Inughuit and the Myth of Crocker Land

Getting Away with Murder

Sovereignty 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 Fiasco

Joe Panipakuttuk on the St. Roch: Through the Northwest Passage