Minik Wallace was a young Inughuit boy who in 1897 travelled to New York with his father and other relatives to spend a year working with an anthropologist. What began as an adventure ended in tragedy when Minik’s father, and most of the others, died of respiratory diseases. Minik was adopted and raised by an American family and did not return to Greenland until 1909. He lived there until 1916 when he returned to the US, only to die in the 1918 influenza epidemic.