Taqulittuq

Taqulittuq in the United States

Taqulittuq (Inuktitut: ᑕᖁᓕᑦᑐᖅ, often transliterated as Tookoolito; c. 1838 – December 31, 1876) was an Inuk interpreter and guide. She and her husband Ipirvik (also known as Joe) worked alongside Arctic explorer Charles Francis Hall and joined him in his search for Franklin's lost expedition in the 1860s, as well as the Polaris expedition to reach the North Pole.[1][2]

  1. ^ Loomis 1971, p. 258.
  2. ^ Kaalund, Nanna Katrine Lüders (2022). "Erasure as a Tool of Nineteenth-Century European Exploration, and the Arctic Travels of Tookoolito and Ipiirvik". The Historical Journal. 66: 122–140. doi:10.1017/S0018246X22000139. ISSN 0018-246X. S2CID 251662473.