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Ilulissat, Greenland – 19 February 2025
1. Aerial of ice-sheets floating (drone footage)
2. Homes by the sea in Greenland
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Nuuk, Greenland – 19 February 2025
3. Small flame
4. Sanimuinaq singing, a shamanistic practice
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Aviaja Rakel Sanimuinaq, Inuit shaman:
“Growing up, it was natural for me to speak about the connection with the spirits. But my mom told me to never speak about it because it was dangerous, and I never understood why it was dangerous because I hadn’t experienced my ancestors suppression.”
6. Traditional Greenland Inuit tattoos on Aviaja Rakel Sanimuinaq
7. Sanimuinaq’s face
8. Sanimuinaq’s Inuit facial tattoos
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Aviaja Rakel Sanimuinaq, Inuit shaman:
“There are two lines at a time, which means our world and the spirit world. And the distance between those two lines is what we do not know.”
10. Sanimuina holding a seal skull
11. Various items used in ceremony in traditional Inuit culture
12. Sanimuinaq’s mother using traditional Inuit drum
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Aviaja Rakel Sanimuinaq, Inuit shaman:
“The sacredness of Christianity is still sacred in my eyes, but so is Buddhism. So is Hinduism, and so is my work. And that’s where I stand on this that the arising of our culture and us as a people is also to, to get the equality within our culture, to acknowledge that our culture is legit.”
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Nuuk, Greenland – 21 February 2025
14. People walking in Greenland
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Nuuk, Greenland – 20 February 2025
15. Exterior of the Church of Our Savior also known as the Nuuk Cathedral
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Nuuk, Greenland – 16 February 2025
16. Priest leading service
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Nuuk, Greenland – 19 February 2025
17. Statues in Sanimuinaq’s home
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Aviaja Rakel Sanimuinaq, Inuit shaman:
“The generations that you see in here today are the generations that actually believes that we can heal.”
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Nuuk, Greenland – 15 February 2025
19. Various of Naja Parnuuna singing
20. SOUNDBITE (English) Naja Parnuuna, Inuit, award-winning singer-songwriter:
“I used to feel like it was cooler to be a Dane. Or cooler to be able to speak Danish where it was embarrassing to like practice our traditions.”
21. Parnuuna playing traditional Inuit drum
22. SOUNDBITE (English) Naja Parnuuna, Inuit, award-winning singer-songwriter:
“I began to realize how important it is to accept someone’s roots or my own roots."
23. Parnuuna playing traditional Inuit drum
24. SOUNDBITE (English) Naja Parnuuna, Inuit, award-winning singer-songwriter:
"So that’s why I think it’s really important to bring that back so our people can and we can learn to love ourselves again.”
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Nuuk, Greenland – 19 February 2025
25. Tight of Sanimuinaq’s hand on polar bear rug
26. Sanimuinaq sitting on polar bear rug
27. SOUNDBITE (English) Aviaja Rakel Sanimuinaq, Inuit shaman:
“Inuit hasn’t been heard. We have been so isolated for hundreds of years. And this time is the time for Inuit to speak up. We have to liberate ourselves and take the word. Take the lead for ourselves. That’s why I feel hope.”
28. Sanimuinaq laying on polar bear rug
STORYLINE:
Aviaja Rakel Sanimuinaq is Inuit and a Greenlander. She is also a shaman who has Inuit facial tattoos, and works with spiritual healing practices to help people connect with their ancestors and heal generational trauma.
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