The Traditional Sources of Lana Hansen’s Greenlandic Environmental Commitment

• Main Author: Chartier, Daniel
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Groenland; Greenland; Inuit; Littérature; Literature; Lana Hansen; Sila; Nuna; Sedna; Traditional Inuit figures; Personnages inuits traditionnels; Écologie; environnement; changements climatiques Ecology; Climate Change; Environment; greenlandic; inuit; inuits
• Online Access: http://archipel.uqam.ca/15581/1/222059971.pdf

Indigenous cultures have an integrated relationship with nature, and do not view it in opposition to culture, nor do they consider humans as separate from the environment. For example, the concepts of nuna and sila and the figure of Sedna, at the basis of the traditional Inuit thought, decenter the...