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Edna's Bloodline

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An Inuk politician and a Swedish author set off on a mission in the western Arctic to trace the adventures of their shared ancestor, Petter Norberg. The explorer and fur trader, who left Sweden in the late 1800s, was the great-grandfather of Edna Elias, the former commissioner of Nunavut.

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