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der=0 cellpadding=3 cellspacing=0 width=100%> From The Boston Globe 4/3/00: Book shows dark side of American explorers, museums
MONTREAL - It was in the fall of 1897 that a 7-year-old Inuit boy named Minik was delivered to New York's American Museum of Natural History by the renowned Arctic adventurer Robert E. Peary. The youngster was accompanied by five other ''live Eskimo specimens,'' colorful in fur costume, who drew tens of thousands of gawkers in a day when explorers were super-celebrities and scrutiny of primitive societies all the rage...

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Give Me My Father's Body : The Life of Minik, the New York Eskimo - Amazon.Com

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The American Museum of Natural History - Are there any more Inuit remains hidden in the halls of this institution? Who can say!

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