Orpingalik
Orpingalik was a Netsilik Inuit angakkuq (spiritual healer) and oral poet who provided anthropological input to Danish explorer Knud Rasmussen during the latter's 1921-1924 expedition.
Orpingalik was married to an Inuit woman named Uvlunuaq, also a noted poet. The couple's son Igsivalitaq killed a hunting partner in 1921 and fled his homeland to escape the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
Works in translation[]
- The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart: Poems for Men, edited by Robert Bly, James Hillman, and Michael J. Meade, HarperCollins Publishing, 1992. ISBN 0060167440, 9780060167448.
Sources[]
- Penny Petrone. Northern Voices: Inuit Writing in English. University of Toronto Press, 1992. ISBN 080207717X, 9780802077172. Pg 21.
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