My family and I are outsiders. We speak English. Our eight year old son speaks fluent Danish; I speak reasonable Danish; my husband speaks and understands basic Danish. My son understands some,  but does not speak, Greenlandic; my husband reads a little, and speaks basic Greenlandic; and I know virtually no Greenlandic, other than a …

I worked for a summer on the south coast of Disko Bay with a Polish geologist. We were making a geological map and were camped together for a few weeks, hiking the hills, studying the rocks. He’d worked on similar geological surveys in west Greenland for some years and had many stories to tell over …

From time to time my son’s brain visits this universe, but not often. He is in third grade, which is taught 50% in Danish and 50% in Greenlandic – two languages that he could not speak or understand in any capacity one year ago. None of his formal schooling is in his mother tongue, English. …