Soon becoming a Danish colony, Greenland offered blubber, sealskins and whale oil that brought economic prosperity to Denmark. The struggles of Indigenous people in Greenland today are largely the ...

and begins efforts to convert the Indigenous people to Christianity. This marks the start of Denmark’s modern colonization of Greenland. With the dissolution of the Kingdom of Denmark and Norway ...

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 ...

Finding no survivors, he builds a new settlement at Kangeq, near modern day Nuuk, Greenland’s capital, and begins efforts to convert the Indigenous people to Christianity. This marks the start of ...