And in the decades that followed, researchers from multiple disciplines began to converge on the same questions that Wrangel Island had dramatized in such stark terms.

Why had the four Western-educated men died while the Iñupiat woman survived?

And what did that answer reveal about the sophistication of the knowledge systems that Arctic Indigenous peoples had developed?

The answers that emerged from anthropology, nutrition science, ecology, and climate science over the following century constitute one of the most significant rehabilitations of Indigenous knowledge in the modern scientific record.

Nutrition And The Arctic Body