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Story Publication logo August 1, 2009

Puju: Greenland's "language warrior"

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Greenland: Languages on Thin Ice

In the arctic, warmer weather has already reshaped fauna and flora zones, and sea ice melted last...

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Puju, director of the Oqaasileriffik, helps University of Chicago professor Lenore Grenoble with her Greenlandic in Sisimiut, Greenland
Puju points the route of travelto Sarfannguit Greenland
Puju and Lenore speak with Puju's cousins in Sarfanguit
Lenore speaks with fisherman from Sarfannguit
Puju looks over the fjord at Sarfannguit
Puju and Lenmore hike toward a radio tower during a sunset in Sisimiut, Greenland

Carl Christian "Puju" Olsen, director of the Oqaasileriffik or Language Secretariat, shows linguistics professor Lenore Grenoble around his native Greenland.

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