Nuka K. Godtfredsen is the creator of four graphic novels about Greenland’s history from the early Inuit migrations to contact with the Norse. He begins with a manuscript, then a storyboard, then the drawings. Each two-page spread takes a month to complete. Nuka researches every detail from fashion to ship’s rigging, hunting equipment, and castle…
“These are called the treasure chambers, this is almost like open storage. This is from a strange time period. It’s from a non-time, it doesn’t have any dynamics. It’s a static view of what the Arctic is in this room. We just get this non-time with no-time dimension, with no development, with no past with…
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“Education has helped me to express what I feel inside,” said Jens Heinrich, an historian and political advisor to Greenlandic members of the Danish Parliament and a former member of the Greenlandic Reconciliation Commission. He is both Danish and Greenlandic. In Denmark, he says, “There is a lack of knowledge about Greenland, a lack of…
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I’m sitting at a patio table with two of Nunavut’s foremost language experts, Leena Evic and Eva Aariak. We’re in Eva’s backyard drinking tea, eating homemade cookies and talking about the internet. And they’re about to blow my mind. The Inuktitut word for internet, “ikiaqqijjut,” is often translated as “the tool to travel through layers.”…
One of the things that makes Copenhagen so fabulous is a very tall steeple wrapped in a golden staircase. Walk up, up, up and here you are. The canals open towards the salt water which soon becomes the North Atlantic that has led so many people over the centuries towards Greenland. These harbours below used…
We’ve got one full day in Copenhagen, and we plan to make the most of it in Danish style. That means bikes!@eric_guth took this shot in the city yesterday, and today we’ll be pedaling our way to meet some new people and to find the connections between here and Greenland. Pedal on. #seizetheday #meetthenorth #lindbladexpeditions…
It’s a different kind of Arctic connection than what we have explored before, and it’s very interesting so far. We’re in Copenhagen to learn about the colonial relationship between Denmark and Greenland, and we’ve begun with an evening tour of the city centre. You might recognize Nyhavn from a Danish postcard. Tonight it’s bustling with…
Greenland, you beauty. Here we come! #meetthenorth #arctic #greenland #kalallitnunaat #sunset #moody #bbctravel #natgeotravel #onassignment #north #grønland #gorgeous #lovetheworld #canadiancreatives