Greenland – The Last Ice Hunters
The story of the last generation of Inuit hunters from East Greenland.
In the last 100 years the local populace faced dramatic changes, from living in total isolation the way people lived in the Stone Age to integration in the world global village. The world of the Inuit is changing with an alarming pace.
Merely 4,500 people inhabit East Greenland’s 20.000km long coast. It is one of the least populated places on our planet.
There are few places on Earth where humans have suffered more hardship and coped with such an extreme hostile environment. East Greenland created one of the most specialized hunting cultures in the world.
“To eat what we catch, that is the essence of being Inuit. When we stop hunting on ice and eating what we catch, we will not exist as a people any more.” Inuit Hunter
Due to the isolation caused by the Ice cap, no colonization of East Greenland took place, and the area remained practically unknown to anyone outside the local population. Only in the last five generations has the ‘’modern’’ world entered East Greenland.
