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Kenn Harper

Kenn Harper lived in the Arctic for 50 years in Inuit communities in Canada and in Qaanaaq, Greenland. He has worked as a teacher, historian, linguist, and businessman. He speaks Inuktitut, and has written extensively on Northern history and language. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and the Royal Canadian Geographical Society, a recipient of Queen Elizabeth's Diamond Jubilee Medal, and a Knight of the Order of Dannebrog (Denmark). Harper is the author of the bestselling Give Me My Father's Body, with a forthcoming new edition entitled Minik: The New York Eskimo.

Books by Kenn Harper

In Those Days: Inuit and Explorers

The Breathing Hole

In Those Days: Shamans, Spirits, and Faith in the Inuit North

In Those Days: Tales of Arctic Whaling

Thou Shalt Do No Murder

In Those Days: Arctic Crime and Punishment

In Those Days: Inuit Lives

Suffixes of the Eskimo dialects of Cumberland Peninsula and North Baffin Island

Some aspects of the grammar of the Eskimo dialects of Cumberland Peninsula and North Baffin Island