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I'm Hedi Namin Aziz and I'm in Nuuk, the capital of Greenland.
I'm here to meet a cross-section of people to find out about Inuit culture and what they want for their future.
Sesuma Amna, the mother of the sea,
which is like a mythical figure in Greenlandic history or an Inuit tradition,
like the protector of the sea, of the animals, the hunting, the weather, survival, everything.
You know, she's a really core figure in Inuit mythology.
The colonial harbor and Greenland's capital, Nuuk, is home to two iconic monuments.
The Mother of the Sea is a sacred figure to the indigenous Inuit people who make up around 80% of the population living on the biggest island in the world.
Akra Nibiana is an actor, artist, poet and nuke resident.
When we talk about Sessouma Amna, the Mother of the Sea, she is the one that we want to respect.
But she's also a tempered woman.
You keep polluting the ocean, gets tangled in her hair.
And if it's too tangled in a minute, she's going to get upset.
And then there's storm and she will not provide any animals because we don't deserve that.
She can also just tell you to, yeah, nice try.
She's a bit temperamental.
She is.
She is very temperamental.
And that's how we raise to respect her.