Inuit oral historian had 'critical role' in solving mystery of doomed Franklin expedition
Working tirelessly over 30 years, Louie Kamookak, who died of cancer on March 22, came up with the most educated-guess of where Franklin’s lost ships might be
Published on: March 29, 2018 | Last Updated: March 29, 2018 6:02 PM PDT
Louie Kamookak spent his childhood summers living in a hunting camp with his great-grandparents near his home of Gjoa Haven, a remote Inuit community on King William Island, Nunavut. At night, as the family sat by the fire, his great-grandmother would tell him stories of their ancestors — and of a past that was already well on its way to disappearing by the time Louie was born in 1960.
One story, among the rest, would stick with the boy, as he grew older. His great-grandmother spoke of riding on her father’s shoulders as a child, and coming upon a ridge and finding a scattering of strange artifacts.
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