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The Inughuit are an Inuit group living in northwest Greenland. Robert E. Peary, an American Arctic explorer, relied heavily on their travel and sewing skills and technology in his repeated efforts to reach the North Pole in the early twentieth century. In fact, four Inughuit were part of Peary’s six-person team that stood at the North Pole on April 6, 1909.

The roles Inughuit played on Peary’s North Pole expeditions and the stresses the men and women experienced are of interest to Anthropologists/Archaeologists Genevieve LeMoine and Susan Kaplan. They have studied original expedition documents in archives, newly discovered journals, photographs, and artifacts to understand the Inughuit side of the story. The have turned to historic archaeology as well, investigating sites in northwest Greenland and on Ellesmere Island to reconstruct a picture of Inughuit contributions to these historic expeditions and the expeditions’ impacts on Inughuit culture.