Northeast Greenlanders
The Northeast Greenlanders are an Inuit branch that died out between 1823 and 1869 . They lived on Clavering Island and in the immediately adjacent areas and, like the rest of the Greenland Inuit, most likely belonged to the Thule culture. Archaeological evidence suggests that this part of Greenland has been inhabited by Thule-Inuit since about 1400, and that they reached the area from present-day Canada via the far north of Greenland ( Peary Land ).
The first and last encounter between Europeans and Northeast Greenlanders took place in August 1823, when Douglas Charles Clavering's British polar expedition reached the island that was later named after him and there came across a group of twelve Inuit whose behavior and appearance were described by clavering. The Second German North Polar Expedition under the direction of Carl Koldewey in 1869/70, which was supposed to find out more about this ethnic group, found only half-dilapidated, uninhabited huts and other legacies of the Northeast Greenlanders, including one that was completely preserved Dog sled, which can be seen in a Berlin museum to this day.
The ethnic group of Northeast Greenlanders is believed to have died out around 1850. In any case, there are no reports of further south (such as in East Greenland in Tasiilaq ) living East Greenland over immigration from the north. The settlement of Ittoqqortoormiit , founded in 1925 , just 400 kilometers south of Clavering Island, has resumed the tradition of colonizing northeast Greenland.
literature
- Bjarne Grønnow: The History of Archaeological Research in North East Greenland: Putting the GeoArk Project into Perspective . In: Geografisk Tidsskrift - Danish Journal of Geography 110 (2), 2010, pp. 117–129
Individual evidence
- ^ Douglas Charles Clavering: Journal of a Voyage to Spitzbergen and the East Coast of Greenland in His Majesty's ship Griper . In: Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal 9, 1830, pp. 1-30