Tunumiit
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Inuit beliefs, Evangelical Lutheran | |
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Other Inuit, Yupik and Indigenous peoples of the Americas |
Iivit or Tunumiit are
Besides the Iivit, who live in the eastern portion of Inuit Nunaat in the juristiction of
Language
).Region
Iivit or Tunumiit or the Eastern Inuit, live primarily in the
Ittoqqortoormiit was the settlement founded in 1925 by Ejnar Mikkelsen in Scoresby Sound. 80 Inuit settlers—70 persons from Tasiilaq and four families from western Greenland—were brought there by ship. The area has vestiges of former habitation, but it had been uninhabited for about a century at the time of the foundation of the new settlement.
There were two other Eastern Greenland groups in the long coast between
Art
An angakkuq or spirit healer named Mitsivarniannga from Ammassalik Island created a tupilaq "evil spirit object," for a visiting European in 1905. When no harm befell him for creating and showing this object to an outsider, others began making tupilait, which evolved into a popular art form.[7] Residents also carved Ammassalik wooden maps, that traced the Eastern Greenlandic coastline. Customary art-making practices thrive on Ammassalik Island.[2]
See also
Notes
- ^ a b "Inuktitut, Greenlandic." www.ethnologue.com Accessed 3 Feb 2014.
- ^ a b Hessel, 20
- ISBN 978-0-08-044656-1.
- ^ Hessel, 11
- ^ East Greenland Inuit www.everyculture.com, accessed 10 September 2022
- ^ Einar Lund Jensen, Hans Christian Gulløv, Kristine Raahauge, Cultural Encounters at Cape Farewell: The East Greenlandic Immigrants and the German Moravian Mission in the 19th century. p. 74
- ^ Nacheva, Velina. "An average artistic day in Greenland." The Sofia Echo. November 29, 2001. Accessed 3 February 2014.
References
- Hessel, Ingo. Arctic Spirit. Vancouver: Douglas and McIntyre, 2006 ISBN 978-1-55365-189-5
- Carl Koldewey, The German Arctic Expedition of 1869-1870: Narrative of the Wreck of the Hansa in the Ice.