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The Arctic Island - Greenland's Journey Through Time

The Arctic Island - Greenland's Journey Through Time

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 Host Alex Calder traces Greenland's history from Paleo-Eskimo cultures twenty-five hundred years ago through the Thule people, ancestors of today's Inuit Greenlanders. The episode explores the Norse settlement under Erik the Red and their mysterious fifteenth-century disappearance. Danish colonization beginning in seventeen twenty-one brought three centuries of cultural suppression, forced relocations, and trauma including forced IUD insertions. World War Two's American bases sparked independence aspirations, leading to the nineteen seventy-nine Home Rule agreement and two thousand nine Self-Government Act. This historical foundation explains why Greenland has become strategically vital in twenty-first-century geopolitics.
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