Kenn Harper

Kenn Harper (aka Ilisaijikutaaq, tall teacher[1]) is a Canadian writer, historian and former businessman.

He is the author of Give Me My Father's Body, an account of Greenland Inuk Minik Wallace, had a regular column on Arctic history in Nunatsiaq News and is a former landlord.

[4] He eventually settled in Iqaluit, Nunavut, where he bought the Arctic Ventures general store, which was previously owned by Bryan Pearson.

For ten years (2005-2015), he wrote "Taissumani", a regular column on Arctic history in Nunatsiaq News.

[3] In 1986 he published Give Me My Father's Body: The Life of Minik, the New York Eskimo, which tells the story of Minik Wallace, a member of the Inughuit or "Polar Eskimo" tribe who was among a group taken by Robert Peary from his home in northwest Greenland to New York City.