Kenn Harper is a former grocer in Iqaluit, Nunavut. He writes a regular column in Nunatsiaq News. He was employed at various times as a teacher and development officer and is an entrepreneur. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. His book Give Me My Father's Body: The Story of Minik, the New York Eskimo tells the story of Minik Wallace, a member of the Inughuit or "Polar Eskimo" tribe who was among a group taken by Robert Peary from his home in northwest Greenland to New York.
In 2005, Harper was appointed Danish Honorary Consul, a posting located in Iqaluit, Nunavut.
Harper is fluent in English, Inuktitut and conversational Danish. Harper has lived in the Canadian Arctic for 30 years; he currently lives in Iqaluit and is an enthusiastic wrestling fan, notable for bringing Maximum Pro Wrestling to Iqaluit.
Books include:
- Give Me My Father's Body : The Life of Minik, The New York Eskimo
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“Every member of the family of the future will be a producer of some kind and in some degree. The only one who will have the right of exemption will be the mother ...”
—Ruth C. D. Havens, U.S. suffragist. As quoted in History of Woman Suffrage, vol. 4, ch. 13, by Susan B. Anthony and Ida Husted Harper (1902)