American Experience · SEASON 20
Minik: The Lost Eskimo
Episode 10 · 2009-03-31
- Documentary
Episode overview
In 1897, renowned Arctic explorer Robert Peary returned to New York from his latest Greenland expedition. At the request of anthropologist Franz Boas, he brought with him five polar Inuits for study at the American Museum of Natural History. Within months, four of them had fallen sick and died, leaving a seven-year-old boy named Minik to fend for himself in a foreign land.
55 minutes
Season 20 episodes
1. Oswald's Ghost2008-01-14
2. The Lobotomist2008-01-21
3. Eyes on the Prize (7 & 8): The Time Has Come/Two Societies2008-02-03
4. Grand Central2008-02-04
5. Eyes on the Prize (9 & 10): Power!/The Promised Land2008-02-10
6. Eyes on the Prize (11 & 12): Ain't Gonna' Shuffle No More/A Nation of Law?2008-02-17
7. Eyes on the Prize (13 & 14): The Keys to the Kingdom/Back to the Movement2008-02-24
8. Kit Carson2008-02-18
9. Buffalo Bill2008-02-25
10. Minik: The Lost Eskimo2009-03-31
11. Walt Whitman2008-04-14
12. Roberto Clemente2008-04-21
13. George H.W. Bush (1)2008-05-05
14. George H.W. Bush (2)2008-05-06
