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Finland, 1910: Fifteen-year-old Sig is shocked to see a hole in the frozen lake outside his family's cabin and to find his father's corpse nearby. Why did Einar steer his dog sled across the lake instead of taking the safer land route? Sig's sister and stepmother go for help, leaving Sig alone with Einar's body in the cabin. Soon after, an armed stranger barges in, demanding a share of Einar's stolen gold from when the two men knew each other during...
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In 1897, famed explorer Robert Peary took six Eskimos from their homes in Greenland to be "presented" to the American Museum of Natural History in New York as a living exhibit. Among the six were a father and a son. Soon, four were dead, including the father, Qisuk ("Smiler"), whose bones were put on display, unbeknownst to the son. One survivor returned to Greenland. And the other -- the young boy -- remained, the only Eskimo in New York for twelve...