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...Company's sturdy little Nascopie, he has traveled 168,000 miles of icy Arctic waters in the past 14 years, learned to know many of the cheerful, grinning Eskimos by name. The Eskimos call McKeand "The Man With the White Hair." Sometimes they call him Umeealik (boss man). Boss McKeand carefully protects his Eskimos against the white man, prohibits whites from entering the territory without a permit. Result: not one case of venereal disease reported. He has no fears about the Eskimo's clinical future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada at War: NORTHWEST TERRITORIES: The Man With the Gray Hair | 3/5/1945 | See Source »

When the Mounties get to the Islands, they will have little detective work to do. Eskimos don't lie, and will probably tell umeealik, the boss man, all about it. If the inspector decides to bring the guilty family down to Moose Factory on James Bay for trial that will be fine, they will get a ride in an airplane and a chance to see a whole street of "igloo-pak," the white men's houses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Umeealik Goes North | 4/21/1941 | See Source »

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