When admiral Perry went to discover the North Pole he most likely did not, according to recent findings and not only that, he ruined the lives of the Inuit people that he took back home for the sake of science. Of course he had no knowledge that transporting them to a new environment would cause them discomfort or expose them to unknown diseases, unknown as far as the Inuit were concerned.

One such Inuit person was a young child who came to the states and was adopted into a family and raised like an American citizen but he soon lost interest in his new surroundings and longed for home especially when his father became ill. In the meantime he and the other members that had been taken to the states were not only exposed to germs they did not have in their native country, they were also on exhibit at a museum. People came from all over the states to see who these people were. Today such a thing would be unheard of.

Perry excused himself for the deteriorating health of the natives but did not to reconcile that even though they began to die. He repeatedly sought to get to his goal, even at the cost of losing toes from the extreme cold. The Inuit gradually declined to accompany him because they did not want to die in a region they knew was extremely hazardous to visit. Those few that remained were curious about the driving force behind the explorer. This would bring him to within a short distance form the pole at one time and he had to return. He later claimed that he did reach the North Pole but evidence received from those that travelled with him shows the contrary. On his last voyage he got as far as Greenland.

By the way the young Inuit who at one time enjoyed the comforts of America went back to his native country and there tried to re-arrange his life. Unfortunately he could not fit because he had already gotten Americanized. He did return to the states where he created a business for himself and later died. One gets the impression that he felt he was a displaced person for the majority of his life.