Summary: When Arctic explorer Robert Peary returned from Greenland in 1897, he brought with him five Eskimos, causing a sensation. Within months, however, four of the Eskimos had died, leaving a seven-year-old boy named Minik alone in a foreign land. http://www.pbs.org/amex/minik Voices: Ira Jacknis, anthropologist Bruce Henderson, author David Hurst Thomas, curator, American Museum of Natural History Miles Neff, podcast narration Produced by: Ravi Jain Director of New Media: Maria Daniels Major funding for AMERICAN EXPERIENCE is provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Major corporate funding is provided by Liberty Mutual. Additional funding is provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and by public television viewers.
