The struggles of Indigenous people in Greenland today are largely the result of “Danization” policies from the 1950s. At this point, Denmark had joined the United Nations, which required all members ...

Decried by many Greenlandic politicians as genocide against the island’s indigenous people, the policy is estimated to have resulted in preventing tens of thousands of Inuit births.

A sacred cloak worn by Indigenous leaders in the 16th century has been returned to Brazil from the National Museum of Denmark. The object’s return, though widely celebrated by Brazil’s ...

After centuries of trading with the native Inuit people, Denmark began to colonize the island in the 18 th Century and, according to the Danish Museum, officially declared its authority over ...

MEMBERS of Brazil’s Tupinamba indigenous group look at the cloak returned by the National Museum of Denmark at a park in Rio de Janeiro, on Wednesday.—AFP RIO AFP JANEIRO: With the beating of ...

Brazil formally received on Thursday the return from Denmark of an Indigenous cloak made with 4,000 red feathers of the scarlet ibis bird, a sacred mantle that was taken by Europeans during the ...

Brazil's President Luiz Lula da Silva accompanied by Sonia Guajajara, the Minister of Indigenous People, looks on at the Tupinamba cloak in Rio de Janiero Indigenous leaders in Brazil have ...

I mean, the native people in Greenland are very closely related to the people of Alaska, and we’ll make it a part of Alaska.” It is unclear how powerfully that message will resonate on the island.

1200 The Thule people, the final wave of Inuit migration to Greenland, arrive from what is now Alaska. These people spread throughout Greenland and are the ancestors of the Indigenous people who ...

Denmark's first move? Alter its royal coat of arms "Some people in Greenland are a little startled by all the attention we're getting globally," Chemnitz said in a phone interview Friday.