f the six Inuktun speakers brought back from Greenland to the city by explorer Robert Peary in 1897, the only survivor was 7-year-old Minik. The boy remained in New York for over a decade under the care of the museum's chief curator and superintendent, William Wallace, and protested strongly when he learned that his father's skeleton had been displayed in the Natural History Museum instead of being given a proper burial. Returning to Greenland with no memory of Inuktun, Minik relearned the language and Intuit lifeways, only to journey once again to New York several years later. He died in the influenza epidemic of 1918.