Natkusiak (ca. 1885-1947)
Few Inuit have displayed the same wanderlust and indefatigable spirit of exploration as the Alaskan Inupiat Natkusiak. As Vilhjalmur Stefansson's primary guide and travelling companion on the noted explorer's two major arctic expeditions, the Stefansson-Anderson Expedition of 1908-12 and t...
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ftunivcalgaryojs:oai:journalhosting.ucalgary.ca:article/64431 2023-05-15T14:19:11+02:00 Natkusiak (ca. 1885-1947) Condon, Richard G. 1992-01-01 application/pdf https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/64431 eng eng The Arctic Institute of North America https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/64431/48366 https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/64431 ARCTIC; Vol. 45 No. 1 (1992): March: 1–104; 90-92 1923-1245 0004-0843 Biographies Canadian Arctic Expeditions (1913-1918) Expeditions Explorers History Inuit Jenness Diamond 1886-1969 Natkusiak ca. 1885-1947 Stefansson-Anderson Arctic Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History 1908-1912 Stefansson Vilhjalmur 1879-1962 Alaska Canadian Arctic info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion other 1992 ftunivcalgaryojs 2022-03-22T21:21:38Z Few Inuit have displayed the same wanderlust and indefatigable spirit of exploration as the Alaskan Inupiat Natkusiak. As Vilhjalmur Stefansson's primary guide and travelling companion on the noted explorer's two major arctic expeditions, the Stefansson-Anderson Expedition of 1908-12 and the Canadian Arctic Expedition of 1913-18, Natkusiak logged thousands of miles by foot, ship and dog sled. While Stefansson provides few details of Natkusiak's personal life, his voluminous works do contain frequent passages of praise for his companion. In Stefansson's first major publication, My Life with the Eskimo (1913), the author compliments Natkusiak as one of the best Eskimo hunters he has ever known (p. 151), as an individual with the spirit of an adventurer and investigator (p. 155), and as an extremely competent man in everything that concerns making a living in the Arctic (p. 339). In September 1911, when Anderson brought news that Natkusiak had temporarily left the service of the Stefansson-Anderson Expedition, Stefansson wrote: "This was a very disappointing piece of news, for in all my long travels and in everything of difficulty which I had had to undertake in the past three years, Natkusiak had always been my mainstay and in many cases the only man on whom I could rely" (p. 339). [This profile pays tribute to a great Inuit explorer.] Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Arctic eskimo* inuit Inupiat Alaska University of Calgary Journal Hosting Arctic Stefansson ENVELOPE(-62.417,-62.417,-69.467,-69.467) ARCTIC 45 1 |
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Biographies Canadian Arctic Expeditions (1913-1918) Expeditions Explorers History Inuit Jenness Diamond 1886-1969 Natkusiak ca. 1885-1947 Stefansson-Anderson Arctic Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History 1908-1912 Stefansson Vilhjalmur 1879-1962 Alaska Canadian Arctic |
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Biographies Canadian Arctic Expeditions (1913-1918) Expeditions Explorers History Inuit Jenness Diamond 1886-1969 Natkusiak ca. 1885-1947 Stefansson-Anderson Arctic Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History 1908-1912 Stefansson Vilhjalmur 1879-1962 Alaska Canadian Arctic Condon, Richard G. Natkusiak (ca. 1885-1947) |
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Biographies Canadian Arctic Expeditions (1913-1918) Expeditions Explorers History Inuit Jenness Diamond 1886-1969 Natkusiak ca. 1885-1947 Stefansson-Anderson Arctic Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History 1908-1912 Stefansson Vilhjalmur 1879-1962 Alaska Canadian Arctic |
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Few Inuit have displayed the same wanderlust and indefatigable spirit of exploration as the Alaskan Inupiat Natkusiak. As Vilhjalmur Stefansson's primary guide and travelling companion on the noted explorer's two major arctic expeditions, the Stefansson-Anderson Expedition of 1908-12 and the Canadian Arctic Expedition of 1913-18, Natkusiak logged thousands of miles by foot, ship and dog sled. While Stefansson provides few details of Natkusiak's personal life, his voluminous works do contain frequent passages of praise for his companion. In Stefansson's first major publication, My Life with the Eskimo (1913), the author compliments Natkusiak as one of the best Eskimo hunters he has ever known (p. 151), as an individual with the spirit of an adventurer and investigator (p. 155), and as an extremely competent man in everything that concerns making a living in the Arctic (p. 339). In September 1911, when Anderson brought news that Natkusiak had temporarily left the service of the Stefansson-Anderson Expedition, Stefansson wrote: "This was a very disappointing piece of news, for in all my long travels and in everything of difficulty which I had had to undertake in the past three years, Natkusiak had always been my mainstay and in many cases the only man on whom I could rely" (p. 339). [This profile pays tribute to a great Inuit explorer.] |
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