Indigenous American peoples, any of the aboriginal peoples of the Western Hemisphere.Inuit,Yupik/Yupiit, and Unangan (Aleuts) are sometimes excluded from this category, because their closest genetic and cultural relations were and are with otherArctic peoplesrather than with the groups to their sout...
ARCTIC HUNTERS, AMERICAN EXPLORERS, ADVENTURERS, AND ANTHROPOLOGISTS: The ex‐Museum of the American Indian Collection of Kayaks at the Canadian Canoe MuseumMinikJohn Katungazukkayaksprovenancecollections researchThis case study introduces a legacy collection of historic Indigenous Arctic watercraft from ...
serving as team captain of the first American women’s Everest expedition. And she’s climbed the highest mountain on each continent and skied to both the north and south poles. I mean, just one of those things just schemed to the North Pole, but not the North and the Sou...
Environmental concerns and the opposition of local people have consistently put a stop to any road building in the area, meaning that this stretch can only be covered by plane, with your vehicle traveling separately in a shipping container. Crossing the region by bike or on foot is not advisab...
the first full cargo of human freight, the prince gave away the fifty-six which fell to his share as one-fifth, although it is recorded with the somewhat grotesque piety of the fifteenth century that “he reflected with great pleasure on the salvation of their souls that before were lost....
As explorers the whalemen rambled into every nook and corner of the Pacific before merchant vessels had found their way thither. They discovered uncharted islands and cheerfully fought savages or suffered direful shipwreck. The chase led them into Arctic regions where their stout barks were nipped ...
The fourth, involves a crossing at Nicara- gua, utilizing the San Juan River and the Lake of Nicaragua. Humboldt finds this the most viable (as did the extended U.S. surveys of 1870-1875), but says many more studies and surveys are needed. The fifth location is the crossing at Pan- ...
Based on the poem accompanying Thomas Nast’s illustration, it seems that Santa really likes his privacy and history … but if you’re 1500 years old, the arctic explorers might be more like current events: Ho! Ho! – reindeer too fast ...
soon after crossing the frontier, tribal police seized Blumkin. Apparently, someone had tipped-off the British. The crafty chekist soon gave his captors the slip, and assuming a new guise as a Mongol lama, pressed on towards Roerich. Anyway, that is...
'I looked in two different editions of the Guinness Book Of Records. One said Peary was first, the other Herbert. That struck me as odd,' says Tom, who has just made the polar trip that has finally settled the matter. Peary dedicated his life to the Arctic. In September 1909, he ...