Lost lives of Greenland's Inuit children uprooted by Denmark
Six surviving Inuit Greenlanders taken from their families in 1951 speak about their ordeal.
Source: bbc.co.uk
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Six surviving Inuit Greenlanders taken from their families in 1951 speak about their ordeal.
Six surviving Inuit Greenlanders taken from their families in 1951 speak about their ordeal.
Helene Thiesen was part of a project aimed at stripping children of their cultural identities to mould them into “little Danes." The failed social experiment is a dark bit of Danish history that echoes in Canada as this country continues the grim task of tallying hundreds of potential gravesites near residential schools where Indigenous children were sent.