Pipaluk Freuchen
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Pipaluk Freuchen was a Danish-Greenlandic-Swedish writer, best known for her children's book Ivik, den faderløse, which is also known by its English title Eskimo Boy. She was also the daughter of the
Portrait by Ingrid Vang Nyman Arktisk Institut
Greenlandic Inuit
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The Greenlandic Inuit or sometimes simply the Greenlandic are an ethnic group native to Greenland, where they constitute the largest ethnic population. They share a common ancestry, culture, and histo
Pipaluk Freuchen
…on 15 March 1918 in Uummannaq, Greenland. Her father was the Danish Arctic explorer and adventurer Peter Freuchen, her mother, Navarana Mequpaluk, a Greenlandic Inuk woman whom he married in 1911. They had two children, Mequsaq (born 1915) and Pipaluk. In a 1945 article in the Swedish-American newspaper Vestkusten…
An Inuk man with a dog sled looks at the United States Air Force radar station Thule Site J in 1966.
Kuupik Kleist, former Prime Minister of Greenland (2009–2013)
Nive Nielsen, Inuk singer and songwriter from Greenland, 2016
Greenlandic Inuit in 1903