Index
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Across Arctic America (Rasmussen)
Afterlife, Inuit stories of
Ajako (Inuit boy)
Akilinermiut people
Alaska
American Museum of Natural History
American tour
Amulets
Amundsen, Roald
Cook’s North Pole expeditions
Eskimo girls’ schooling
Nansen and
North Greenland Eskimo
North Pole exploration
Northwest Passage expedition
polar flight
sled dog behaviour
South Pole expedition
sovereignty in the Arctic
Andersen, Niels
Angakoqs (shamans)
Animal names
Arnanguaq (Inuit woman)
Arnarulunguaq (Inuit woman)
Astrup, Ejvind
Aua (angakoq)
Axel Heiberg Island, Canada
Baffin Island, Canada
Bangsted, Helge
Bathurst Inlet, Canada
Bear signal
Before the Eye of Day (Rasmussen)
Bering Strait
Bertelsen, Alfred
Berthie, Jean
Biering, Adam
Birket-Smith, Kaj
Bjorneborg Island, Greenland
Bosun (Inuit man)
Bowman, Isaiah
Bridgman, Herbert L.
Brønlund, Jørgen
Byrd, Richard
Camp Under the Big Stone
Canada. See also Fifth Thule Expedition
Cannibalism
Cape York District, Greenland
Caribou hunting
Caribou Inuit
Carlsberg Foundation
Cave art
Central Eskimos
Chesterfield Inlet, Canada
Christensen, Laurent
Christian X
Christianity in Greenland. See also Missionaries
Christmas celebration
Chukchi Peninsula, Russia
Cinematography
Clausen, Vilhelmine
Cleveland, George Washington
Climate change: thirteenth-century Arctic cooling
Colonial policy, Danish
Cook, Frederick
Coolidge, Calvin
Copper Inuit
Council of Hunters
Crime among the Inuit
Cro Magnon man
Crocker Land, Greenland
Culture and customs, Inuit
allegorical stories of angakoqs
Canadian inland Inuit
East Greenlanders
ethnological work on the Fifth Thule Expedition
female infanticide
introducing modern technology
legacy of Rasmussen’s work
North Pole explorers adopting Inuit customs
Rasmussen’s reputation with women
Rasmussen’s writings on the New People
wife murder
Dagmar (ship)
Dancing
Danish Literary Expedition
assembling the team
crossing Melville Bay
Dagmar Andersen’s interest in
Danish controversy over
embarking
Nansen’s endorsement
northern Greenland
Polar Eskimos
Rasmussen’s writings
tensions and difficulties
travellers’ arrival in Copenhagen
white men as evil spirit
winter retreat from the north
Danmark expedition
Death
allegorical stories of angakoqs
by suicide
modern expeditions
Navarana’s death from Spanish influenza
Rasmussen’s death
Rasmussen’s writings of starvation
Second Thule Expedition
shaman’s escape from
Spanish influenza
Denmark
Christian Rasmussen’s relocation to
First Thule Expedition
Greenland Commission
Greenland shipping industry
isolationist policy in Greenland
Nordic Games dog sledding
presumption of Rasmussen and Freuchen’s death
Rasmussen’s education
Rasmussen’s return after the Fifth Thule Expedition
sovereignty over Greenland
World War I
See also Danish Literary Expedition
Dogs and dog sledding
bear signal
Chukchi treatment of dogs
Danish Literary Expedition
decline of
Fifth Thule Expedition
First Thule Expedition
Freuchen’s injury in a blizzard
ice shoeing
Inuit woman’s vengeance for a bad marriage
Nordic Games
Polar Eskimos’ admiration of Rasmussen’s skills
provisioning the dogs
Rasmussen’s Greenland upbringing
seasonal whale hunting
Second Thule Expedition
sledges
southward journey from Melville Bay
East Greenland
Eastern Arctic Patrol of the RCMP
Egede, Hans
Ekblaw, Elmer
Elias (Inuit hunter)
Ell, John
Ellesmere Island, Canada
Ellsworth, Lincoln
Emotion, Eskimo sense of
Engström, Albert
Erichsen, Michelle
Erik the Red
Eskimo Folk Tales (Rasmussen)
Eskimos. See Inuit
Etah Eskimos
Ethnographic collections. See also Culture and customs, Inuit; Fifth Thule Expedition; Storytelling and songs
Evil spirits, white men as
Expeditions
Amundsen’s Arctic flight
Danmark expedition
funding
investigating the lost Franklin expedition
Lapland
Rasmussen’s debt
Rasmussen’s methods and modern expeditions
Russia’s Chukchi Peninsula
Seventh Thule Expedition
Sixth Thule Expedition
Third Thule Expedition
See also Danish Literary Expedition; Fifth Thule Expedition; First Thule Expedition; Second Thule Expedition
Fanck, Arnold
Fifth Thule Expedition
aftermath
American tour
assembling the team
Christmas celebration
collecting amulets
Danish Island
effects of trading stations on native life
encounter with the Akilinermiut
financing
Freuchen’s gangrene
ice shoeing the sleds
investigating the lost Franklin expedition
King William Island
local hospitality
Mackenzie Delta and the Bering Strait
mapping Baffin Island
material culture
Rasmussen’s increasing fame
scientific and ethnological purpose of
setting out
sovereignty concerns
stories and legends
summer fieldwork
supplying the expedition
westward from Hudson Bay
writings and evidence
Filmmaking
Firearms
First Thule Expedition
ancient remains
Danmark expedition remains
descent of the ice cap
ice cap crossing
preliminary planning
presumption of Rasmussen and Freuchen’s death
Rasmussen’s recklessness
Rasmussen’s writings
route planning
starvation
Flaherty, Robert
Fleischer, Jens (uncle)
Fleischer, Knud (grandfather)
Flight
Fourth Thule Expedition
Franklin, John
Freuchen, Magdalene
Freuchen, Mequsaq (son)
Freuchen, Peter
aging and waning enthusiasm
Amundsen’s expedition
background of
Cook-Peary controversy
Dagmar Rasmussen
Danish colonial policy
Danish Literary Expedition
Danish sovereignty in northern Greenland
Danmark expedition
Fifth Thule Expedition
First Thule Expedition
gangrene
Hudson’s Bay expedition
leaving Thule Station
mapping Baffin Island
marriage to Mequ
narwhal slaughter
Navarana’s death
on Rasmussen’s attraction to women
on Rasmussen’s mother
on Rasmussen’s skill with dogs
on Rasmussen’s spirit of adventure
Rasmussen’s celebrity
Rasmussen’s collaboration
Rasmussen’s death
Rasmussen’s return to Copenhagen
Rasmussen’s secret child
Second Thule Expedition
Spanish influenza
trading post in northern Greenland
winter at North Star Bay
World War I
Wulff’s and Hendrik’s deaths
Freuchen, Pipaluk (daughter)
Fritsche, Rigmor
From Greenland to the Pacific (Rasmussen)
Gabrielsen, Tobias
Gift-giving
Gjøa (Amundsen’s ship)
Greely, Adolphus
Greenland
arrival of the Rasmussens
as solace and privacy for Rasmussen
Christian Rasmussen’s departure from
cycle of the seasons
Danish isolation policy
Danish Literary Expedition
foreign influences
Ice Cap exploration
legends and stories
Norse explorers
Rasmussen and Freuchen’s trading post
Rasmussen’s Danish education
Rasmussen’s dogs
Rasmussen’s social status
Rasmussen’s upbringing
Sami culture and
South Greenland fjords tour
trading post at Cape York
See also Danish Literary Expedition; First Thule Expedition; Second Thule Expedition
Greenland by the Polar Sea (Rasmussen)
Greenland Commission
Greenland Ice Cap. See First Thule Expedition; Second Thule Expedition
Hall, Charles Francis
Hallas, Ellen
Hans Egede (ship)
Hansen, Godfred
Hansen, Leo
Harkin, J.B.
Hensen, L.
Herbert, Wally
Heroism
Herold, Vilhelm
Holsteinsborg, Greenland
Hospital for northern Greenland
Hovey, E.O.
Hudson Bay Inuit
Hudson’s Bay Company
Humboldt Glacier
Hunting
Canadian sovereignty in the Arctic
caribou migration
customs and taboos governing behaviour
firearms modernizing methods of
First Thule Expedition
fur trapping
Greenland’s cycle of the seasons
Hudson Bay Inuit
inland Canadian Inuit
narwhals
Second Thule Expedition
tupilaq encounter
whaling season
Ice shoeing
Iceland
Iggiannguaq (Inuit man)
Igjugarjuk (angakoq)
Igloolik Inuit
Ilulissat, Greenland (Jakobshaven)
Inaluk (Inuit woman)
Incantations for luck
Independence Fjord
Indigenous culture. See Culture and customs; Inuit
Inernerunassuaq (Inuit)
Infanticide
Injuries and death
Inuit
acquiring an identity and a voice
American tour
angakoq practices
arrival in Copenhagen
arrival in Greenland
Canadian groups
Canadian sovereignty in the Arctic
Christianization of
Danish colonial policy
Danish Literary Expedition
exploitation by whites
Greenland by the Polar Sea
hospitality of Canadian villagers
legends, culture and history
market economy in Cape York
material culture
migration route
missionaries’ efforts with
on Danish Island
origins of
Osarkrak’s arrival in Copenhagen
Peary modelling the customs of
Peary-Cook North Pole controversy
Rasmussen and Freuchen’s journey to Cape York
Rasmussen as Qisunguaq’s master
Rasmussen’s ability to befriend
Rasmussen’s background and culture
Rasmussen’s cultural and genetic links
Rasmussen’s marriage to Dagmar Andersen
Rasmussen’s status in Denmark
Rasmussen’s view of
Rasmussen’s writings of the First Thule Expedition
Rasmussen’s writings on legends and lore
Russia’s Chukchi
Sami culture and
Spanish influenza
Wulff’s condescension towards
Inukitsoq (Inuit man)
Iron, source of
Ittinuar, Peter Freuchen
Jakobshavn, Greenland (Ilulissat)
Jenness, Diamond
Kane, Elisha Kent
Kap York (schooner)
Kent, Rockwell and Frances
King William Island, Canada
The Kingdom of the North Wind
Koch, Lauge
Kristensen, Tom
Langenberg, Emmy
Language
Akilinermiut people
Canadian Inland Inuit
Chukchi
Dagmar’s acquisition of Greenlandic
Danish Literary Expedition
Greenlandic and Danish cultures
Lapland expedition
Mackenzie Delta area
Polar Eskimos
Rasmussen’s connection with Inuit culture
Rasmussen’s fluency in Greenlandic
spread of Inuit through migration
Lapland
Lapland (Rasmussen)
Lecture tour, Rasmussen and Freuchen
Lindbergh, Charles and Anne Morrow
Liquor
Living off the land. See also First Thule Expedition; Second Thule Expedition
Loman Brothers
London visit
Mackenzie Delta
MacMillan, Donald
MacMillan expedition
Maisanguak (Inuit man)
Malaurie, Jean
Managing people, Rasmussen’s skill at
Manilaq (Inuit man)
Mapping
Marriage
Freuchen’s marriage to Mequ
Inuit view of the importance of
Polar Eskimos
Rasmussen’s marriage to Dagmar Andersen
vengeance for a bad marriage
Material culture
Mathematics, Rasmussen’s hatred of
Mathiassen, Therkel
Mattak (whale blubber)
Media
American tour
Cook’s claims of reaching the North Pole
increasing international interest in Rasmussen and Freuchen
Inuit storytelling
Peary-Cook North Pole controversy
presumption of Rasmussen and Freuchen’s death
Rasmussen’s return from the Fifth Thule Expedition
recognition for the First Thule Expedition
Melville Bay, Greenland
Mequ (Inuit woman). See also Navarana
Meteorite
Migration route, ancient
Mikkelsen, Ejnar
Missionaries
Alaskan coastal area
Danish celebration of
Danish colonial policy in Greenland
in Angmagssalik
in northern Greenland
Lapland’s Sami culture
Rasmussen and Freuchen’s relationship with
Rasmussen’s father
settling the Cape York region
Miteq (Inuit man)
Modernization
Moltke, Harald
Morrissey expedition
Murder, Inuit view of
Musk oxen
My Travel Diary (Rasmussen)
Mylius-Erichsen, Ludvig
Myths and Legends from Greenland (Rasmussen)
Nanook of the North (film)
Nansen, Fridtjof
Nares, George
Narrative of the Fifth Thule Expedition (Rasmussen)
Narwhals
Nasaitordluarsuk (Inuit man)
Navarana (Freuchen’s wife)
Navaranapaluk (Inuit woman)
Netsilik Inuit
New People
The New People (Rasmussen)
Nolde, Emil
Nordic Games (1901)
Norse culture
North Pole expeditions
Amundsen’s polar flight attempt
Cook’s expeditions
fatalities associated with
Peary’s expeditions
raising funds for a trading post
shielding the Inuit from civilization
North Star Bay, Greenland
Northwest Game Act (Canada)
Northwest Passage expedition
Norway
Nyeboe, Marius Ib
Olsen, Gabriel
Olsen, Henrik
Olsen, Jacob
Olsen, Ole
Opera
Organizational skills, Rasmussen’s
Origins of the Inuit
Osarkrak (Inuit)
Osterman, Gustav
Padlermiut people
Pagan culture
Paulussen, Regine (grandmother)
Peary, Robert
Peary Land
Peary-Cook controversy
Pedersen, Peder
Penny, William
The People of the Polar North (Rasmussen)
Permanent Court of International Justice at The Hague
Peter Freuchen Land
Poetry. See Storytelling and songs
Polar bears
Poulsen, Adam and Johannes
Poulsen, Christian
Poulsen, Johannes
Putnam, George Palmer
Qisunguaq (Inuit man)
Quongulaq (pickled walrus liver)
Racism in the Danish colonial structure
Radio broadcasts
Railroad
Rasmussen, Augustine (aunt)
Rasmussen, Carl (uncle)
Rasmussen, Christian Ludwig (brother)
Rasmussen, Christian Vilhelm (father)
Rasmussen, Dagmar Andersen (wife)
Rasmussen, Hanne (daughter)
Rasmussen, Inge (daughter)
Rasmussen, Niels (son)
Rasmussen, Sophie Louise Fleischer (mother)
Rasmussen, Vilhelmine Regine “Me” (sister)
Reindeer herding
Religious beliefs, indigenous. See also Angakoqs; Shamans and shamanism
The Report of the Fifth Thule Expedition (Rasmussen)
Repulse Bay, Canada
Ross, John
Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP)
Russian expedition
Sakoatarnak (George Washington Cleveland)
Sami culture and language
Saqdloq (angakoq)
Saunders Island, Greenland
Scientific study
Across Arctic America
Chukchi Peninsula
Fifth Thule Expedition
origins of the Polar Inuit
Rasmussen’s lack of proficiency
Second Thule Expedition
Sixth Thule Expedition
Seal meat
Seattle, Washington
Second Thule Expedition
assembling the team
difficult conditions
embarking
living off the land
questioning Rasmussen’s leadership
Rasmussen’s antipathy to Wulff
Rasmussen’s wanderlust
supply ship sinking
Wulff’s death
Segregation
Seventh Thule Expedition
Shamans and shamanism. See also Angakoqs
Sixth Thule Expedition
Skiing
Sled runners, design of
Sledge
Snow blindness
Snow houses, 2–6–207
Social culture
Social status, Rasmussen’s
Søkongen (ship)
Songs. See Storytelling and songs
Sorqaq (angakoq)
S.O.S. Iceberg (film)
Sovereignty in Greenland
Spanish influenza
Steensby, Hans Peder
Stefansson, Vilhjalmur
Stone rings
Storytelling and songs
artistry of
beauty of the Greenland Ice Cap
Canadian Inuit
Danish Literary Expedition
difficult themes of
East Greenlanders
Eskimo Folk Tales
Fourth Thule Expedition
grave robbery
Lapland
Mackenzie Delta area
Narrative of the Fifth Thule Expedition
Poulsen’s murder of his wife
Rasmussen’s childhood
Rasmussen’s filmmaking
Rasmussen’s proficiency at collecting
Rasmussen’s writings on the Polar Eskimos
Umingmagtormiut people
See also Culture and customs
Suicide
Sverdrup, Otto
Sweden: Nordic Games
Teddy Bear (schooner)
Telegraph
Tent rings
Thalbitzer, William
Third Thule Expedition
Thule Law (1929)
Thule Station, Greenland
American expedition
covering Rasmussen’s debt
First Thule Expedition
Freuchen’s collapse from influenza
Freuchen’s concerns over the Second expedition party
Freuchen’s marriage
funding the Fifth Thule Expedition
hauling supplies from Bjorneborg Island
increasing profitability
naming
recovering expedition expenses
Tørsleff, Laurits
Trading posts
after the First Thule Expedition
effect on native life
Freuchen-Rasmussen partnership
hauling supplies from Bjorneborg Island
hazardous journey across Melville Bay
Hudson’s Bay Company
Kap York trip with supplies
preparations for the northward trek
relocating to North Star Bay
See also Hudson’s Bay Company; Thule Station, Greenland
Tragedy, Inuit philosophy of
Tromsø, Norway
Tuberculosis
Tupilaq (hell animals)
Tygesen, Karl
Uummannaq, Greenland
Umingmagtormiut people
Under the Lash of the North Wind (Rasmussen)
Upernavik, Greenland
Uvdloriaq (Inuit man)
Vegetarianism
Vest, Signe
Walrus meat
Wanderlust, Rasmussen’s
Wealth, Polar Eskimos’ view of
The Wedding of Palo (film)
Whalers
Women
customs and taboos governing behaviour
female infanticide
Norwegian travels
Polar Eskimo encounter
The Wedding of Palo
See also Marriage
Women, Rasmussen and
World War I
Writing, Rasmussen’s
collecting stories and poems
Cook’s claim of reaching the North Pole
cultural depiction in The People of the Polar North
Dagmar’s influence and interest
Danish Literary Expedition
excluding his family
Fifth Thule Expedition
First Thule Expedition
Fourth Thule Expedition
Greenland by the Polar Sea
increasing popularity of
Lapland visit
Myths and Legends from Greenland
Nordic Games
origins of the Inuits
Peary-Cook North Pole controversy
Polar Eskimos’ customs and culture
posthumous publication
precluding family life
Rasmussen’s rapport with Inuits
social culture as theme of
Wulff, Thorild
Yupik people