Editing Robert Peary (section)

==Marriage and family==
[[File:Josephine Peary portrait 1892.jpg|thumb|upright|alt=Photograph of Josephine Diebitsch | [[Josephine Diebitsch Peary|Josephine Diebitsch]] in 1892]]
On August 11, 1888, Peary married [[Josephine Diebitsch Peary|Josephine Diebitsch]], a business school valedictorian who thought that women should be more than just mothers. Diebitsch had started working at the [[Smithsonian Institution]] when she was 19 or 20 years old, replacing her father after he became ill and filling his position as a [[linguist]]. In 1886, she resigned from the Smithsonian upon becoming engaged to Peary.

The newlyweds honeymooned in [[Atlantic City, New Jersey]], then moved to [[Philadelphia]], where Peary was assigned. Peary's mother accompanied them on their honeymoon, and she moved into their Philadelphia apartment, which caused friction between the two women. Josephine told Peary that his mother should return to live in Maine.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://arcticportal.org/ap-library/arctic-deeply/1945-the-forgotten-indigenous-women-of-robert-peary-s-arctic-expeditions | title=The Forgotten Indigenous Women of Robert Peary's Arctic Expeditions | publisher=Arctic Portal | date=August 10, 2017}}</ref>

[[File:Marie Peary.jpg|thumb|upright| alt=Photograph of Peary's daughter, Marie Ahnighito Peary|Peary's daughter, Marie Ahnighito Peary (born 1893)]]
They had two children together, Marie Ahnighito (born 1893) and Robert Peary, Jr. His daughter wrote several books, including ''The Red Caboose'' (1932) a children's book about the Arctic adventures published by [[William Morrow and Company]]. As an explorer, Peary was frequently gone for years at a time. In their first 23 years of marriage, he spent only three with his wife and family.

Peary and his aide, Henson, both had relationships with Inuit women outside of marriage and fathered children with them.<ref>{{cite book | last=Sherman | first=Josepha | author-link=Josepha Sherman | date=2005 | title=Exploring the North Pole: The Story of Robert Edwin Peary and Matthew Henson | publisher=Mitchell Lane Publishers | isbn=9781584154020 | url=https://archive.org/details/exploringnorthpo0000sher |url-access=registration}}</ref> Peary appears to have started a relationship with Aleqasina (''Alakahsingwah'') when she was about 14 years old.<ref name=Noose>{{cite book | last=Herbert | first=Wally | author-link=Wally Herbert | date=1989 | title=The Noose of Laurels | url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780689120343 | url-access=registration | pages=[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780689120343/page/206 206–207]| publisher=Atheneum | isbn=9780689120343 }}</ref><ref name=plug>{{Cite news |url=https://nativetimes.com/life/people/5994-us-explorers-inuit-kin-plug-into-globalized-world | title=US explorers' Inuit kin plug into globalized world | last=Hanley | first=Charles J. | work=[[Native Times]] | date=September 7, 2011}}</ref> They had at least two children, including a son called Kaala,<ref name=plug/> Karree,<ref>{{Cite news | url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1987/07/13/anaukaq-henson-80-dies/5406beb9-9bf7-4f31-839d-f1ac55079fe8/ | title=Anaukaq Henson, 80, dies | newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] | date=July 13, 1987}}</ref> or Kali.<ref name=shoulders>{{Cite news | url=http://nunatsiaq.com/stories/article/Matthew_Hensons_descendants_honour_their_ancestor/ | first=Jane | last=George | title=Standing on the shoulders of a giant; Matthew Henson's descendants honour their ancestor | work=Nunatsiaq News Online | date=April 9, 2009}}</ref> French explorer and ethnologist [[Jean Malaurie]] was the first to report on Peary's descendants after spending a year in Greenland in 1951–52.<ref name=plug/><ref>[https://nativetimes.com/life/people/5994-us-explorers-inuit-kin-plug-into-globalized-world US explorers' Inuit kin plug into globalized world ]</ref>

[[S. Allen Counter]], a [[Harvard]] neuroscience professor interested in Henson's role in the Arctic expeditions, went to Greenland in 1986. He found Peary's son Kali and Henson's son Anaukaq, then octogenarians, and some of their descendants.<ref name=shoulders/> Counter arranged to bring the men and their families to the United States to meet their American relatives and see their fathers' gravesites.<ref name=shoulders/> In 1991, Counter wrote about the episode in his book, ''North Pole Legacy: Black, White, and Eskimo'' (1991). He also gained national recognition of Henson's role in the expeditions.<ref name=shoulders/> A documentary by the same name was also released. Wally Herbert also noted the relationship and children in his book ''The Noose of Laurels'', published in 1989.<ref name=Noose/>