American Experience
Season 20 Episode 10 - Minik: The Lost Eskimo
6.9 ?
1988
Documentary
In 1897, renowned Arctic explorer Robert Peary returned to New York from his latest Greenland expedition. At the request of anthropologist Franz Boas, he brought with him five polar Inuits for study at the American Museum of Natural History. Within months, four of them had fallen sick and died, leaving a seven-year-old boy named Minik to fend for himself in a foreign land.
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Eyes on the Prize (13 & 14): The Keys to the Kingdom/Back to the Movement
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Minik: The Lost Eskimo
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