Table of Contents Introduction A Note on Word Choice Preface Collected Writings Abduction: The "Countrie People" of Baffin Island Meet Martin Frobisher "They Spake, But We Understood Them Not": Christopher Hall's Inuktitut Word List "Take Heed of the Savage People": Hudson's Mutineers Meet the Inuit Slaughter at Bloody Fall The Return of The Dog-Children: Parry and Lyon at Iglulik Parry's Medallions "A Greater Instance of Courage has not been Recorded": Tatannuaq, the Peacemaker First Encounter: The Nattilingmiut Meet John Ross A Wooden Leg for Tulluahiu "The Deep Footprints of Tired Men": John Franklin's Lost Expedition "A Nice Steady Lad and a Favourite with his Tribe": Albert One-Eye Charles Dickens, John Rae, and the "Good Interpreter, William Ouligbuck" Inuit Evidence in a British Court A Fortuitous Meeting: Tookoolito and Ipiirvik, and Charles Francis Hall Inuit Adrift: 1,500 Miles on an Ice Floe An Inuit Plan to Find the North Pole Robert Peary, the Inughuit, and the Iron Mountain Minik, the New York Eskimo: A Victim of Peary's Neglect I Will Find a Way or Fake One: Robert Peary Claims the North Pole Ittukusuk, Aapilak , and Daagtikoorsuaq: Travels with Dr. Cook "The Trail That Is Always New": Matthew Henson and his Inuit Family Inughuit and the Myth of Crocker Land Getting Away with Murder Sovereignty 101: Captain Joseph-Elzéar Bernier and the Inuit "We're Going to Keep On Living": Ruth Makpii Ipalook on Stefansson's Karluk Expedition "I Thank God for Living": Ada Blackjack and Stefansson's Wrangel Island Fiasco Joe Panipakuttuk on the St. Roch: Through the Northwest Passage.