Early Years
Minik spent his early childhood in northern Greenland among his people, the Inughuit, the northernmost band of indigenous Inuit (Arctic Eskimos, as formerly called). He met Robert Peary when the explorer employed men of Minik's band during several Arctic expeditions.
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