🌌For centuries, meteorites were the only source of iron for humans.
🚀The Inuit people relied on meteoric iron for tools and weapons in Greenland.
💔Robert Peary exploited the Inuit and took their meteorite and artifacts.
🏛️The American Museum of Natural History displayed the stolen meteorite.
⚖️The museum has acknowledged their wrongdoing and returned some remains.
Why did Robert Peary take the meteorite?
—Peary took the meteorite to impress his backers and fund his future expeditions.
How did the Inuit people suffer?
—The Inuit people were mistreated, neglected, and their remains were kept by the museum.
Has the museum returned all the remains?
—No, the museum has only returned some of the remains.
What has the museum done to rectify their actions?
—The museum has acknowledged their wrongdoing and committed to removing all human remains from display.
Is the stolen meteorite still on display?
—Yes, the stolen meteorite is still on display at the American Museum of Natural History.
00:00An American explorer, Robert Peary, took a massive iron meteorite from Greenland.
03:02Peary brought six Inuit people to the American Museum of Natural History.
06:20The Inuit people were neglected and mistreated in New York.
08:59The museum kept the remains of the Inuit people for almost a century.
11:32The museum finally returned some of the remains in 1993.
12:10The stolen meteorite remains on display at the museum.
