Ep. 395: When Things Go South Up North
The MeatEater Podcast
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What's Cool About Robert Perry?
He was eyeballing the idea that this place Crocker land that Perry had said he'd seen from the East Coast or the West Coast of Greenland, that there was a landmass above Alaska that was undiscovered. He came back in 1912 and claims that he's contacted these, uh, descendants of Lafe Erickson who are blonde haired, blue-eyed Eskimos or, uh, Inuit peoples. So there was this notion and he perpetuated it that of the blonde Eskimo. Now, that ultimately becomes contested.
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