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name: Kenn Harper
about: Kenn Harper is a Canadian historian, teacher, development officer, linguist, and businessman. He is an author of books on life in the high Arctic and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. His book, Give Me My Father's Body, tells the tragic yet compelling story of Minik Wallace, a member of the Inughuit or "Polar Eskimo" tribe who was taken by Robert Peary from his home in northwest Greenland to New York.In 2005, Harper was appointed Danish Honorary Consul, a posting located in Iqaluit, Nunavut.Harper is fluent in English, Inuktitut and conversational Danish. Harper currently lives with his wife in Iqaluit. Kenn Harper is a Canadian historian, teacher, development officer, linguist, and businessman. He is an author of books on life in the high Arctic and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. His book, Give Me My Father's Body, tells the tragic yet compelling story of Minik Wallace, a member of the Inughuit or "Polar Eskimo" tribe who was taken by Robert Peary from his home in northwest Greenland to New York.In 2005, Harper was appointed Danish Honorary Consul, a posting located in Iqaluit, Nunavut.Harper is fluent in English, Inuktitut and conversational Danish. Harper currently lives with his wife in Iqaluit. ...more