Greenlandic Americans (
Greenlandic: ''Kalaallit Amerikkarmiut'', da, Grønlandsk-Amerikanere) are
Americans
Americans are the Citizenship of the United States, citizens and United States nationality law, nationals of the United States, United States of America.; ; Although direct citizens and nationals make up the majority of Americans, many Multi ...
of
Greenlandic descent.
Greenlandic Americans are often categorized as
Scandinavian or
Danish Americans
Danish Americans ( da, Dansk-amerikanere) are Americans who have ancestral roots originated fully or partially from Denmark. There are approximately 1,300,000 Americans of Danish origin or descent.
History
The first Dane known to have arriv ...
, because of
Greenland's status as an autonomous territory of
Denmark
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. Some are in fact of Danish descent, though many are of
Inuit
Inuit (; iu, ᐃᓄᐃᑦ 'the people', singular: Inuk, , dual: Inuuk, ) are a group of culturally similar indigenous peoples inhabiting the Arctic and subarctic regions of Greenland, Labrador, Quebec, Nunavut, the Northwest Territories ...
ancestry, which is culturally distinct despite geographic similarities.
Notable Greenlandic Americans
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Amandla Stenberg
Amandla Stenberg (born October 23, 1998) is an American actress. She was included in ''Time''s list of Most Influential Teens in both 2015 and 2016, and has received several accolades, including a Teen Choice Award, an NAACP Image Award, and n ...
, actress
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Karina Møller, singer at
Pamyua
Pamyua ( ) (literally: "its tail" in Yup'ik from ''pamyuq'' "tail of animal or kayak; chorus of song; upper stern-piece of kayak") is a Yup'ik musical group from Anchorage in Alaska.
Overview
Brothers Stephen and Phillip Blanchett, of Inuit and ...
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Maligiaq Padilla, kayaker
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Minik Wallace
Minik Wallace (also called Minik or Mene) (ca. 1890 – October 29, 1918) was an Inughuaq (Inuk) brought as a child in 1897 from Greenland to New York City with his father and others by the explorer Robert Peary. The six Inuit were studied ...
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Simon Lynge
Simon Lynge (born 22 January 1980) is a singer-songwriter who was raised in Greenland and Denmark.
Lynge is the first solo musical artist from Greenland to have an album released across the United Kingdom, and the first Greenlander to play the U ...
, singer
See also
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European Americans
European Americans (also referred to as Euro-Americans) are Americans of European ancestry. This term includes people who are descended from the first European settlers in the United States as well as people who are descended from more recent Eu ...
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Hyphenated American
In the United States, the term hyphenated American refers to the use of a hyphen (in some styles of writing) between the name of an ethnicity and the word "American" in compound nouns, e.g., as in "Irish-American". Calling a person a "hyphenated ...
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Nordic and Scandinavian Americans
Nordic and Scandinavian Americans are Americans of Scandinavian and/or Nordic ancestry, including Danish Americans (estimate: 1,453,897), Faroese Americans, Finnish Americans (estimate: 653,222), Greenlandic Americans, Icelandic Americans (esti ...
References
{{Greenlandic diaspora
Greenlandic diaspora