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Minik the Eskimo's tale from Pittsburg New Hampshire
In Portspure New Hampshire in 1918 the Spanish flu devastated the logging town and Minik the Eskimo, brought by explorer Peary in 1897, died of bronchial pneumonia. The piece follows Minik's mistreatment by the American Museum of Natural History, his quest to bury his father, trials abroad and home, and the eventual return of bones to Greenland.
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Portspure
N.H
Greenland
Minik
Pittsburg
Minsk
Sharon Kouble
Indian Stream
Comstock Hill
Robert Gray
Afton Hall
Gray
Kenn Harper
New York
The
American Museum of Natural History
Robert Peary
North Pole
Cape York
Qisuk
Sunshine Land
World Newspaper
Harper
Museum
Peary
United States
Uisaakassak
William Wallace
Wallace
Wallaces
Cobleskill
N.Y
Esquimaux
Morris Jesup
Uncle
Theodore Roosevelt
White House
Minikeft
Riage
New York Tribune
Boston
New Hampshire
Ian Tattersall
Anthropology
Tattersall
Lawyersville