Greenland's stolen indigenous children: a personal testimony

"In this book, author Helene Thiesen recounts her experience of being forcibly removed from her family in Greenland as a young Inuk child, to be 're-educated' in Denmark and an orphanage in Greenland. The practice of forcible assimilation of indigenous children into colonial societies...

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Main Author: Thiesen, Helene (Author)
Contributors: Minton, Stephen James (Translator, Editor)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: New York Routledge 2023
In:Year: 2023
Series/Journal:Routledge studies in indigenous peoples and policy
Further subjects:B Inuit (Greenland) (Nuuk) Biography
B Foster children (Denmark) Biography
B Nuuk (Greenland) Biography
B Nuuk (Greenland) Social life and customs 20th century
B Foster children (Greenland) Biography
B Girls (Greenland) Biography
B Orphanages (Greenland) History 20th century
B Greenlanders Cultural assimilation (Denmark)
B Thiesen, Helene Childhood and youth
Parallel Edition:Erscheint auch als: Thiesen, Helene: Greenland's stolen indigenous children. - New York : Routledge, 2023. - 9781003241843

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