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Smiler's Bones
by Peter Lerangis
In 1897, famed explorer Robert Peary took six Eskimos from their
homes in Greenland to be "presented" to the American Museum
of Natural History. Among the six were a father and a son. Soon,
four were dead, including the father (whose bones, unbeknownst to
the son, were put on display). One returned to Greenland. And the
other -- the young boy -- remained, the only Eskimo in New York
for twelve years.
Excerpt:
The dark man's face is fading.
The years disperse in a blizzard of fragmentary images, and then
I am six years old. Around me the walls are ice blocks and frozen
peat, the roof fortified by whalebone. The floor is a rubble of
stones and I am looking down at a figure on a sealskin pallet who
is glistening with sweat, forehead matted with black hair.
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