Kenn Harper
Kenn Harper is a historian, writer, and linguist, a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and the Royal Canadian Geographical Society, and a former member of the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada. He has made his home in the Arctic for the past 36 years. He is fluent in Inuktitut (Eskimo) and is the author of the best-selling book Give Me My Father's Body: The Life of Minik, the New York Eskimo. He has been collecting Arctic books and ephemera for more than three decades.
Books (2)
Synopsis:
Arctic historian Kenn Harper gathers the best of his columns about Inuit history, which appear weekly in Nunatsiaq News, in this exciting new series of books.
Each installment of In Those Days: Collected Columns on Arctic History will cover a particularly fascinating aspect of traditional Inuit life. In volume one, “Inuit Biographies,” Harper shares the unique challenges and life histories of several Inuit living in pre-contact times.
The result of extensive interviews, research, and travel across the Arctic, these amazing short life histories provide readers with a detailed understanding of their specific time and place.
Series Information
This book is part of the In Those Days series, a historical series that collects writings on Arctic history.
Additional Information
200 pages | 6.00" x 9.00"
Synopsis:
High Arctic, 1920: Three Inuit men delivered justice to an abusive Newfoundland trader.
This is the story of fur trade rivalry and duplicity, isolation and abandonment, greed and madness, and a struggle for the affections of an Inuit woman during a time of major social change in the High Arctic.
A show trial was held in Pond Inlet in 1923 that marked an end to the Inuit traditional way of life and ushered in an era in which Inuit autonomy was supplanted by dependence on traders and police, and later missionaries.
Kenn Harper draws on a combination of Inuit oral history, archival research, and his own knowledge acquired through 50 years in the Arctic to create a compelling story of justice and injustice in the far north.
Reviews
"While the amount of background information sometimes threatens to overwhelm the actual trial, this material is so interesting — and Harper's writing so vibrant — that it does not impede the narrative, or preclude thought-provoking questions about Canada's long-standing and ongoing negative treatment of the Inuit."— Quill & Quire
Additional Information
400 pages | 6.00" x 9.00" | 70 photos | Bibliography | Index
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