ABSTRACT
The Snow Baby books about Marie Ahnighito Peary were written by the explorers Josephine Diebitsch-Peary and Robert E. Peary This chapter examines how these books mediate Inuit culture, people and practices and the extent to which they partake in and/or diverge from traditional colonialist views. The Snow Baby books contributed to new knowledge about Inuit culture and offered an alternative perspective on polar expeditions describing how a mother and her daughter participated in the conquest of the North. Still, the mediation is inscribed with ideas of whiteness and superiority intertwined in the narration of exploration and suppression.
