Witness History: Witness Archive 2015 - Denmark's Inuit Experiment

In June 1951 a group of 22 Inuit children were sent from Greenland to Denmark to be re-educated as 'little Danes'. The hope was that they would help create a new and modern Greenland. Helene Thiesen was among the young indigenous children who took part in this social experiment.

(Photo: Helene Thiesen as a child, courtesy of H. Thiesen)

Published on Wednesday, 10th June 2015.

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