sentences:  In 1988 excerpts from Knud Rasmussen's Journals of the Fifth Thule Expedition were used by Canadian/American composer Raymond Luedeke to create an orchestral work with narration, "Tales of the Netilik".This work was commissioned by six Canadian orchestras and played throughout Canada.The explorers Knud Rasmussen and Gontran de Poncins reported that senicide was still practiced by the Netsilik of King William’s Land as recently as the 1930s.