Inuit pride stirs independence mood in Greenland election, after Trump interest
In a tiny workshop in Greenland's capital Nuuk, goldsmith Nadja Arnaaraq Kreutzmann polishes metals and stones mined and gathered on the vast mineral-rich island. The jewellery she crafts is adorned with Inuit symbols of life and survival.
Takeaways from AP's report on why so many Greenlanders are Lutheran
NUUK, Greenland — About 90% of the 57,000 Greenlanders identify as Inuit and the vast majority of them belong to the Lutheran Church today, more than 300 years after a Danish missionary brought that branch of Christianity to the world’s largest island .
Most Greenlanders are Lutheran, 300 years after a missionary brought the faith to the remote island
Most Greenlanders are proudly Inuit, having survived and thrived in one of most remote and climatically inhospitable places on Earth. And they’re Lutheran. About 90% of the 57,000 Greenlanders identify as Inuit and the vast majority of them belong to the Lutheran Church today,
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Takeaways from AP's report on why so many Greenlanders are Lutheran
Greenland is huge — about three times the size of Texas; most of it covered in ice ... arrival of colonialism and the suppression of rich Inuit traditions and culture by Lutheran missionaries ...