WOODEN INUIT MAPS. DATE: 1885. MATERIAL: Wood. DIMENSIONS: 5.5 inches by 2 inches (left), 8.5 inches by 1 inch (right). FOUND: Ammassalik, Greenland. In 1885, an Inuit hunter named Kunit traded a ...
Inuit peoples constitute about 90 percent of the territory’s 56,000 residents, with the others mostly being Danes concentrated in the capital city of Nuuk. Although part of Denmark, Greenland is ...
Denmark has announced plans to rethink a parenting competency test that has earned heavy criticism for using Danish cultural norms to measure fitness in Greenland’s Inuit communities. Human rights ...
Inuit tattoos in Greenland – similar to those inked in other Inuit cultures, notably in Canada – are primarily worn by women.
Inuit tattoos in Greenland -- similar to those inked in other Inuit cultures, notably in Canada -- are primarily worn by women. They were never formally banished but disappeared when Greenland was ...