Editing Franz Boas (section)

===Minik Wallace===
In his capacity as Assistant Curator at the [[American Museum of Natural History]], Franz Boas requested that Arctic explorer [[Robert E. Peary]] bring one Inuk from Greenland to New York. Peary obliged and brought six Inuit to New York in 1897 who lived in the basement of the American Museum of Natural History.<ref name=":2">{{cite journal |last=Pöhl |first=Friedrich |date=1 January 2008 |title=Assessing Franz Boas' ethics in his Arctic and later anthropological fieldwork |journal=Études/Inuit/Studies |volume=32 |issue=2 |pages=35–52 |doi=10.7202/038214ar |doi-access=free}}</ref> Four of them died from tuberculosis within a year of arriving in New York, one returned to Greenland, and a young boy, [[Minik Wallace]], remained living in the museum.<ref name=":2" /> Boas staged a funeral for the father of the boy and had the remains dissected and placed in the museum. Boas has been widely critiqued for his role in bringing the Inuit to New York and his disinterest in them once they had served their purpose at the museum.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/03/15/books/eskimo-boy-injustice-old-new-york-campaigning-writer-indicts-explorer-museum.html|title=An Eskimo Boy And Injustice In Old New York; A Campaigning Writer Indicts An Explorer and a Museum|first=Dinitia|last=Smith|newspaper=The New York Times|date=15 March 2000}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/minik/program/pt.html|title=American Experience . Minik, The Lost Eskimo - PBS|website=[[PBS]]|access-date=2017-08-28|archive-date=2017-01-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170110211824/http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/minik/program/pt.html|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>Harper, Kenn. (1986/2000) Give Me My Father's Body: The Life of Minik, the New York Eskimo. South Royalton, VT: Steerforth Press.</ref>