Greenland raced to a new era without losing its grip on the traditions of in you

The three collected characters, obscene against the breadth of miles from the snow, heading towards a hole they cut into the ice.

Their siphon was suspended nearly, and the woolen dogs that pulled them on the frozen ground were barking for food.

The man and the dog had to move carefully here. In some places, snow was three feet, in other places, cracked like crystal.

This trio of Greenlanders, their hungry, was a dog’s dog, who followed a tradition – hunting ice in an ice strait – the members of the Invers community were doing it for EONS. This moment in clean white snow was a quiet comfort from a world that changes around them amazingly.

One of the combined Greenlanders – Laila Sandgreen – has just rented 10 Filipinos to work in a café.

Hand Sandgreen, a hard ingredient in a few words, is investing in a growing fleet of expensive snow carts for family tourism business, which faces more and more competition.

Their son, David, was accepted on the Supreme Flight Economy Program in Denmark. But he came out recently, saying that he “missed snow, fishing and fishing.”

In their town on the western coast of Greenland, the Sandgrens store in grocery stores that are well equipped and have a high -speed internet, a beautiful house and a beautiful kitchen. But each of them still knows how to shoot a rifle, direct a spawn and leather seal.

“I don’t feel free here,” said Ms. Sandgrin. “I don’t have a phone flowing in my pocket.”

The story of their family is, in some way, the story of Greenland. It is a place trying to adhere to his culture during the race to a new era, and Greenlanders says they do not want to choose/or.

Even before President Trump pounced on this tremendous island, the largest in the world, in the news by noting that the United States it takes, the change was exceeding.

New international airports open, migrants flow and attract the deeply buried minerals on the island. There are more hotels, more cars – and more cruise ships that mix thousands of tourists into streets, winds and winds in search of these ideal souvenirs or Iceberg tour.

All this change has become a test of how Greenland’s unique heritage appears, and is also connected to the island’s policy.

A The last opinion poll I found that 85 percent of Greenlanders did not want to join the United States. However, many people said in the interviews that they do not want to continue to rely on hunting and Denmark forever.

Denmark has colonized the island for more than 300 years and still controls the police, courts, foreign affairs and defense cases. Increasingly, Greenlanders pushes for full independence and their own commercial relationships.

Moreover, climate change is to reshape the scene. Each Greenlander has his own story about Rainier summer, insomnia ice, ice flowers and having frosty soils, which sometimes collapse on the road. The entire island is warmer and accessible.

Illulissat, where the sand lives, is a good place to see all this. The city’s mountain in the city attracts an increase in tourists and external to serve them. Local legend, Supported by Danish geologiesIt is that the specified iceberg that drowned Titanic may float south from here.

All this growth and attention brings its challenges. Small societies continue on the sidelines of the island to get rid of them, as people are attracted towards larger cities such as Illulissat where there is work.

In the capital, Nuk, which looks like a small Danish city that recently opened an impressive international airport, Greenlanders holds the same big conversations on how to move in transformations.

“Just adapting to new environments was just adapting to new environments,” said QUPANAK OLSEN, the indigenous rights hero who lives in Nuk and was just a conditioning in adapting to new environments. He was elected to the Greenland Parliament This month.

Mrs. Olsen moved away from her career as a mining engineer to become one of the strongest voices in Greenland’s culture. Traveling around the island made 59 seconds videos Greenland celebration, green foods, Greenland’s beliefs and her personal colonialism.

She told a story about how, when she was making a video last year in a far society, a man came to her to thank her for honoring the green traditions. He soon apologized for eavesdropping, saying he had no education and that he was “just a hunter.”

“only hunter? How can you say that you are only I remembered the thinking.

The short exchange of weeks disturbed her. In the end, I followed his number and told him on the phone: “Never say that you are just a hunter. You are the most important people in our culture. I am here today, and I escaped for thousands of years because of you.”

For a long time, Greenlands got all the animals they needed. Most of the island has a few plants. There are almost no trees. The skin whale is a rich source of vitamin C, and by consuming it, Greenlands starts from diseases such as scurvy.

Fishing remains the largest industry, and many Greenland earn money. Even people who have white collar, such as Jens Peter Lang, which is Illulissat dental technician, still hunting ice in the strait and a stem (called Caribou elsewhere in North America).

Revealing it reveals the wounds of Danish colonialism.

He said: “Oh, man, I used to enter into many battles when I was studying in Denmark.” “The Danish man is always over Greenland’s man – always.”

It was narrated Danish doctors entered the IUD into Greenland girls Without knowing that they were equipped with birth control. Share stories about passing it for jobs for the Danish with lower qualifications.

He said, “We need to get rid of it,” and he wipes a thick hand through the air.

On the snow hills in Illulissat, new hotels appeared and new faces appeared: workers of the Philippine cafe, Czech waitress, researchers from the French, Swiss and Australian climate. Illulissat builds a new international airport brings more foreigners.

Mr. Lang says he loves all this. On the other night, the reindeer was purified for his family (and a few guests) that he himself called. The topic of independence came around the table

“She is difficult,” said his wife, Nelchini Rospach, a private education teacher. “We do not even have enough doctors in Greenland. We are still relying on the Danish. We must start completely from scratch.”

Hearing this, Mr. Lang became frustrating and pointed to an example Local fish cooperativeThe fishermen began to be tired of selling their fish at low prices.

“Look at these men,” he said. “They have no education. But they discovered it.”

He bent over his chair, while the winds were rotating outside and the smell of the kitchen from rich sauces and grilled meat.

He said: “Even if we do not know everything at the present time, we will learn.”

Magic It contributed to the reports of Ilulissat, Greenland.