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Inuktun

  • Global speakers: 1,200
  • Glottocode: pola1254
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Inuktun's brief history in New York City revolves around the life of Minik Wallace, a seven-year-old Inuktun speaker brought to the city by explorer Robert Peary in 1897. On an expedition to Greenland, Peary encountered the Inughuit, the northernmost group of Inuit, and brought six people back for further study at the Natural History Museum. Four of the six passed away from tuberculosis, including Minik's father Qisun, whose skeleton was subsequently put on display at the museum despite his son's plea for a proper burial. Minik remained in New York for some time under the care of the museum's chief curator and super intendent, William Wallace, before returning to Greenland with no memory of Inuktun, only to journey once again to America for the final few years of his life before dying of influenza in 1918.
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