Title:
Groton's Inuit heroine 'the Sacajawea of the ice'
Author:
Carol W. Kimball
Subjects:
Inuit heroine, Tookoolito (Hannah)
Indian Colonial Research Center
The Polaris Expedition
Indian Colonial Research Center
The Polaris Expedition
Object ID:
Kim08-082
Object Name:
Scrapbook
Category:
8: Communication Artifact
Subcategory:
Documentary Artifact
Publisher:
The Day
Publication Place:
New London, CT
Pubication Date:
05/30/2002
Collection:
Carol W. Kimball
Summary:
Inuit woman, Tookoolito, called Hannah by the whaleman, once lived in Groton. She served as interpreter and guide for explorer Charles Francis Hall in his search for the lost Arctic expedition of Sir John Franklin and later in the ill-fated 1871 Polaris expedition. Sheila Nickerson's book about the heroine is titled, "Midnight to the North: The Untold Story of the Woman Who Saved the Polaris Expedition". Hall is recognized as the first white man to live with the indigenous people for long periods of time. Thanks is given to the Indian and Colonial Research Center in Old Mystic where a small collection of materials associated with Tookoolito has been preserved: her letters, account book, photographs and a sample of her tatting. She is buried in Groton's Starr Cemetery with her baby son and her daughter Punny.
People:
Nickerson, Sheila
Tookoolito (Hannah)
Hall, Charles Francis
Punny
Butler, Eva L.
Tyson, George E.
Loomis, Chauncey C.
Eiberbing, Joe
Tookoolito (Hannah)
Hall, Charles Francis
Punny
Butler, Eva L.
Tyson, George E.
Loomis, Chauncey C.
Eiberbing, Joe
Search Terms:
Inuit heroine
Polaris expedition
Franklin Arctic expedition
book
ICRC
Groton's Starr Cemetery
book
Polaris expedition
Franklin Arctic expedition
book
ICRC
Groton's Starr Cemetery
book