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Title:

Minik [videorecording] : the lost Eskimo / WGBH, Boston ; a film by Axel Engstfeld ; reversioned by Susan Bellows.

Format:

[videorecording] :

Publisher:

PBS Home Video distributor,

Copyright Date:

c2008

Description:

1 videodisc (ca. 60 min.) : sd., b&w & col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Subject:

Wallace, Minik.
Peary, Robert E.--(Robert Edwin),--1856-1920.
Inuit--New York.--New York.
Inuit--Qaanaaq--Qaanaaq--Biography.
Polar Eskimos--Biography.
Ethnology--Moral and ethical aspects.
Greenland--Discovery and exploration.
New York (N.Y.)--History--19th century.
Arctic regions--Discovery and exploration.
Peary, Robert E.--(Robert Edwin),--1856-1920.
Inuit--New York.--New York.
Inuit--Qaanaaq--Qaanaaq--Biography.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Biographical television programs.
Biographical (Nonfiction)--Television.

Other Authors:

Engstfeld, Axel, 1953-
Bellows, Susan.
Morton, Joe, 1947- nrt
WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.)
WGBH Educational Foundation.
PBS Home Video.

Other Titles:

American experience (Television program)

Notes:

Narrator, Joe Morton. Film originally produced by Engstfeld Film GmbH, c2005. Broadcast as an episode of the PBS television program American experience. Special feature: teacher's guide PDF.

Summary:

In 1897, six Eskimos arrived in New York City, brought as the "exotic cargo" of explorer Robert Peary from Greenland. The youngest of the group was 7-year-old Minik, who struggled to create a home and identity thousands of miles from his native land.

ISBN:

9780793694327
0793694329

OCLC:

(OCoLC)225922003

UPC:

841887009331

Locations:

KSPG296 -- Burlington Public Library (Burlington)

GOPG641 -- Marshalltown Public Library (Marshalltown)

AXPF626 -- Oskaloosa Public Library (Oskaloosa)

LAPH975 -- Sioux City Public Library (Sioux City)