Storytelling
Knowledge of the Eskimo-Kalaallit culture has been kept alive for thousands of years and generations through the art of storytelling. By telling stories with skill, detail and accuracy, the storyteller preserves the heritage that would otherwise be lost and forgotten, passing along spiritual beliefs and cultural traditions exactly the way they have been for generations.
Here is a story that will give you a glimpse of the rich and ancient culture.
The Eskimo-Kalaallit people have a prophecy that when the once rock-hard glaciers become so soft that you could leave a handprint on them, this would be a sign that Mother Earth is in profound turmoil. Uncle never thought he would witness the prophecy taking place in his lifetime.
In September 2003, at the Millennium World Peace Summit of Religious and Spiritual Leaders held in New York City, Uncle shared this impassioned and alarming story.
“I grew up in a small village in Greenland. The villagers were, and still are, fishers and subsistence hunters. We lived very much like my grandparents did – just living and surviving with the gifts of nature. Really there was nothing other than what Mother Nature brought us.
About 15 years ago now, one of my people came back to our village and reported a strange phenomenon. There is a trickle of water coming down from the ice cap. Today that trickle is a river of water and the ocean is threatening to swallow not just our people, but all people. So I say to you, while we sit here talking and making commitments to peace, remember – the ice is melting… the ice is melting.
I come far from my home to tell the people from the industrialized countries to wake up to the damage you are causing and change your ways. When will you change your ways? When the sea covers the first floor of your skyscrapers… the second floor… or the fifth? Because this is what is happening, yet you continue your ways. But this ice is easy to melt compared to the ice in the human heart, so I am going to sing a song for that, a song to melt the ice in the heart of man.”
Lifting his drum, he chanted a song, filling the room with a haunting and resonant melody.
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