The Only Way
Mark Leier, 8 March 2001
Canada’s Tibet: The Killing of the Innu
by Colin Samson and James Wilson et al.
Survival International, 51 pp., £5, November 1999,0 7567 0419 7 Show More
by Colin Samson and James Wilson et al.
Survival International, 51 pp., £5, November 1999,
Give Me My Father’s Body: The Life of Minik, the New York Eskimo
by Kenn Harper.
Profile, 277 pp., £9.99, August 2000,1 86197 252 0 Show More
by Kenn Harper.
Profile, 277 pp., £9.99, August 2000,
“... giving them a smear of respectability by labelling the inmates ‘live ethnographic specimens’. Kenn Harper has put together a detailed and readable biography of one such ‘specimen’, describing the damage done to him and his people by science in the harness of capitalism. In September 1897, six Greenland Inuit, including six-year-old Minik and his ... ”
