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Harper became known as a historian of the Arctic. For ten years (2005-2015), he wrote "Taissumani", a regular column on Arctic history in
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Iqaluit: Blacklead Books, 1986, and South
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Give Me My Father's Body : The Life of Minik, The New York Eskimo
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