Continuing our ongoing First Contact series, today we’re gonna look back at the 1576 encounter between the English and the Inuit of Baffin Island. The details of the meet-up were recorded by one Christopher Hall, a member of a Martin Frobisher-led expedition in search of the fabled Northwest Passage to China.
Upon first landing on Baffin [...]
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First Contact: The English and the Inuit
July 1st, 2009 · 10 Comments
Tags:anthropology·Baffin Island·England·First Contact·history·Iniut·linguistics·Martin Frobisher
