The #inuit created songs for dancing, for hunting, for entertaining children, for weather, for healing, for sarcasm, and for derision.

#UNDRIP
Greenlanders 🇬🇱 have lived there an indisputed 1000 years
UN-DRIP - the #UN 🇺🇳 Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (known in the USA 🇺🇸 as Native Americans ~”Alaska Natives”) ‘trumps’ the 🇺🇸 U$A🔚 #cdnPoli #Danmark #Greenland #Indigenous #Inuit #NATO #usPol #NativeAmericans

As with the rest of Native Americans, the #inuit acculturation and assimilation patterns were more the result of coercion than choice

Inukskuk at sunset

#Vancouver #Canada #Inuit

The #Greenland PM is delusional & i fear for the Inuit
“the deal strengthens our common security in the #Arctic & the North Atlantic… & therefore is great for #NATO & Europe” and “recognizes the sovereignty & territorial integrity of… the Greenlandic people’s right to self-determination” 🔚 #Inuit

An oral culture, #inuit danced at traditional feast times in ritual dance houses called karigi. These dances were accompanied by drums and the recitation of verse stories

In 1900, 200 #inuit died in Point Barrow from a flu epidemic brought by a whaler, and in 1902, 100 more were lost to measles.

Impact of the US on the #inuit was the destruction of the intricate trading network built up over centuries. With the whalers to pick up and deliver goods, #inuit traders were no longer needed.

North of North Season 2 Premieres with Nine Canadian Screen Awards and Cultural Representation

🤖 IA: It's not clickbait ✅
👥 Users: It's not clickbait ✅

#comedy #inuit #canadianscreenawards

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A cryptid for the day:

Kârale Andreassen (Tunumiit, 1890–1934),
"En tupilak harpuneres af en kajakmand /
A tupilak is harpooned by a kayaker,"
ca. 1920–1934, pen and ink on paper, 4.80 × 7.48 in., collection of the National Gallery of Denmark, KKS2002-1/6.

#Inuit #InuitArt #Greenland #NativeSky

More Inuit sculpture from Qamajuq wing at the WAG. Winnipeg Art Gallery
#sculpture #art #Inuit #northern #Saturday #Samedi #sbado #sabato #samstag #lordag

Greenland islanders embrace the geopolitical spotlight.

In the summer of 2025, officials at Kangerlussuaq Airport on the west coast of Greenland were told that the Danish military had set up an evacuation plan in case…

#Greenland #Geopolitics #Inuit #Arctic #Mining #ClimateChange #Europe #Denmark

An oral culture, #inuit danced at traditional feast times in ritual dance houses called karigi. These dances were accompanied by drums and the recitation of verse stories

Another health issue, particularly for the #inuit of the Cape Thompson region, is cancer, brought on by the dumping of 15,000 pounds of nuclear waste by the Atomic Energy Commission.

Anthropologically classified as central-based wanderers, the #inuit spent part of the year on the move, searching for food, and then part of the year at a central, more permanent camp

Impact of the US on the #inuit was the destruction of the intricate trading network built up over centuries. With the whalers to pick up and deliver goods, #inuit traders were no longer needed.

YES (if nothing else, we this to all #Inuit peoples)
The U$A was already as great a threat as China or Russia “the United States’ position is that the waters ought to be classified as an international strait”🔚 #Arctic #cdnPoli #cdnDefence #cdnSovereignty #Icebreakers #Indigenous #CanadianSovereignty