Twice Colonized
Season 37 Episode 9 | 1h 23m 2sVideo has Audio Description, Closed Captions
Inuit activist Aaju Peter embarks on a personal journey for Indigenous people's rights.
Aaju Peter is a renowned Inuit lawyer and activist who defends the human rights of Indigenous peoples. She's a fierce protector of her ancestral lands in the Arctic and works to bring her colonizers to justice. As Aaju launches an inspiring effort to establish an Indigenous forum, she also embarks upon a deeply personal journey to mend her own wounds, including the unexpected passing of her son.
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Twice Colonized
Season 37 Episode 9 | 1h 23m 2sVideo has Audio Description, Closed Captions
Aaju Peter is a renowned Inuit lawyer and activist who defends the human rights of Indigenous peoples. She's a fierce protector of her ancestral lands in the Arctic and works to bring her colonizers to justice. As Aaju launches an inspiring effort to establish an Indigenous forum, she also embarks upon a deeply personal journey to mend her own wounds, including the unexpected passing of her son.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship♪♪ [ Woman vocalizing ] -[ Speaking native language ] [ Woman vocalizing ] ♪♪ ♪♪ [ Metal clang in distance ] [ Wind blowing ] [ Dog howling ] [ Woman vocalizing ] ♪♪ ♪♪ [ Dog howling in distance ] [ Pan sizzling ] [ Low-tempo music playing on radio ] -Night blue sky?
Or normal sky?
Light sky?
♪♪ ♪♪ Grandma.
[ Imitate plane engine humming ] -You wanna see my lawyer outfit, Little Ma?
-I do.
-No other people in court has that.
Only I have the sealskin because I believe and fight for seals.
There you go, Your Honor.
-What do you do as a lawyer?
-As a lawyer, I would do Inuit rights, our rights, and I would do Indigenous First Peoples' rights to defend them from big mining companies, to protect our land.
That's what I would do.
[ Pins clatter ] [ Metallic clink ] Oops.
That's really nice.
-Yeah.
-Maybe you can inherit it when you become a lawyer.
It's gonna look nice.
-Yeah.
[ Percussive music plays ] ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ -Aaju Peter is a campaigner for the rights of her Inuit people of the Arctic.
-Stop the seal hunt!
-Even as the international community moves to restrict it, she was awarded the Order of Canada for her work last year.
[ Applause ] -Stop the seal hunt!
Stop the seal hunt!
-We've been called savages, and we need to educate Europeans that Inuit have an exemption which is not working right now.
We are trying to make it work.
-So the question to be asked is, is protecting Indigenous humans as important as saving other species?
-I'm not sure what you meant by the other species.
Did you mean...southerners?
[ Laughter ] -So, in March of this year, Aaju Peter and her teenage son made the journey from Nunavut to the Netherlands so they could face hundreds of activists who were protesting against the seal hunt.
-You have people who are skilled.
You have jobs that can be filled.
But my son, who's 17, we have the highest rates of suicide, highest unemployment, highest everything.
We just top the list of everything.
He doesn't have those same choices.
-Stop the seal hunt!
Stop the seal hunt!
-Hey, guys, it's Dharm with 24 Hours.
I'm here with Karen, co-owner of Lush Cosmetics, and she's painted herself red.
Karen, what's happening today?
-Well, we're here to demonstrate the horrible thing that's happening on the east coast of Canada.
-Stop the animal slaughter!
-Blood in the ice!
Blood in the water!
-Profiting off the animal slaughter!
-[ Speaking French ] -In order for our hunters to provide for our communities and for our families, we are totally dependent on our hunters catching the seal.
Even though it was not aimed at our economy and our way of life, it had a devastating effect on us.
What would you like us to do?
Do you want us to be sustainable and traditional, or do you want us to be part of the modern economy?
Guess what.
It is our choice.
-Boycott Canada!
Save the seals!
Boycott Canada!
Save the seals!
Boycott Canada!
Save the seals!
♪♪ [ Jackhammering ] ♪♪ ♪♪ -Hi!
Welcome!
-Thank you.
-How are you?
-I'm good, thank you.
-Thank you for coming.
-Thanks for having us.
-Yes, yes, my pleasure.
Welcome to the United Nations.
I'm not really sure if you have been here before.
-No, I have not.
This is my first time.
-No?
Okay.
So, in what part of Europe do you live?
-No, I live in the Canadian Arctic.
-Oh, in Canadian Arctic.
-Yes, but I went to school in Denmark when I was a child.
-Oh, you went to school in Denmark, okay, I see.
-Because I was colonized by them.
That's my colonizer right there!
♪♪ ♪♪ [ Woman speaking over cheering crowd on video ] [ "Proud Mary" plays ] ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ -And then... ♪♪ And then... ♪ Left a good job in the city ♪ ♪ Workin' for the man every night and day ♪ ♪ I never lost one minute of sleepin' ♪ ♪ Worryin' 'bout the way things might've been ♪ ♪ Big wheel keep on turnin' ♪ -♪ Turnin' ♪ -♪ Proud Mary keep on burnin' ♪ -♪ Burnin' ♪ ♪ Rollin', rollin', rollin' on the river ♪ ♪♪ ♪ Rollin', rollin', rollin' on the river ♪ -Wow!
Let's see if my friend is in here.
[ Speaking Danish ] -Cold and harsh and angry.
[ Both laugh ] -Every single time I meet you, it's with a Starbucks cup in your hand.
You look pretty Western urban in a lot of ways to me.
-Yeah.
-Um... -So, already, your opinion and your image of what it should be to be an Inuk is already from a colonial perspective.
-Sure.
Yeah.
-Because you want to see me as a pure Inuk... -No, I don't -- -300 years ago without a Starbucks.
That's so -- That's so colonial.
-Yeah.
It is.
-Yeah.
And that's the biggest hurdle, I think, as Inuit and as Greenlanders, the biggest hurdle we always have to battle.
"You call yourself Inuit?
You're smoking and you're drinking and you're having a coffee, or you're speaking in English and you're traveling to all these Western countries."
That is so 500-years-ago way of thinking, that the rest of the world is allowed to continue in a modern life and the Indigenous people should just remain Indigenous in the way that the colonizers think of the Indigenous people.
No...you.
We want to be part of this industrialized modern world, but we want it from our perspective, and we want it from the way we see things, not the way it is imposed on us.
-Yeah.
I don't like the Danish language.
[ Static ] ♪♪ ♪♪ -I was born in Greenland.
♪♪ ♪♪ It was at that time, when you did really well in school, you were sent off to Denmark.
♪♪ ♪♪ When I was 11, I was sent there by myself, and my brother stayed behind.
We were put in a bus.
It was July, and it was very, very hot.
And I remember just rolling on the seat because I was dying.
It was so hot.
And that's when we were separated.
♪♪ ♪♪ My whole world changed instantly.
I had to learn to sit at a table and use a knife and a fork to eat my food.
I had to learn to brush my teeth.
When you're trying to whitenize little Inuit, you separate them from their parents, you separate them from their peers.
♪♪ But my father, it turns out, had wanted me to stay and get a good education, so I stayed till I was 18.
But he didn't know what it would cost me.
♪♪ And every time, it was a new family, new place, new school.
Ever since I was born, it was always new, new places, so I don't have any childhood memories of any one place.
It was always just getting adjusted.
♪♪ So when I moved back to Greenland, I didn't want anything to do with Danes or Denmark anymore.
I didn't want my own Danish name.
I didn't want to be who I was groomed to be.
But going back to Greenland, I couldn't speak my own language, so I was an anomaly.
I was an oddball because I couldn't speak my own language, I had been going to school in Denmark.
And I was really insulted by that.
I got really angry.
When there was a big conference in Nuuk, it was the Inuit Circumpolar Conference, and at that point, I didn't even know that other Inuit existed, besides Greenlanders.
And seeing that there were other Inuit from Canada, that was really amazing.
Finally, there was other people who liked me for who I was and not this broken Greenlander.
So I grabbed the first guy I saw, and because he didn't have a visa, we both came back to Iqaluit.
We got married in 1981, and the doctor said, "And you're pregnant."
And I've been here ever since.
[ Children laughing ] ♪♪ ♪♪ -♪ Happy birthday to you ♪ ♪ Happy birthday to you ♪ -[ Blows ] -Yay!
[ Clapping ] [ Doorbell rings ] [ Both laugh ] ...the end goal, the end product, was the same.
-Mm.
[ Laughter ] ♪♪ ♪♪ -Came a bit too late.
The seagulls got to them.
[ Seagulls squawking ] ♪♪ [ Siren wails in distance ] ♪♪ [ Siren continues ] ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ But the very last time I was in Ottawa, he was listening, on my computer, he was listening to a song.
I said, "Oh, that is such a beautiful song."
I had no idea that he was gonna die.
I said, "You're gonna sing that for me."
It was such a beautiful song about love.
He said, "Oh, no!"
He said, "Why?"
I said, "Because I'm an old grandma."
And you're gonna listen to it right now.
-No, you can't record this song.
-Oh, I'm gonna record the song.
-Why?
-Because I'm an old grandmother.
-[ Laughs ] -Please.
That's my baby.
-♪ I love you too much ♪ ♪ To live without you loving me back ♪ ♪ I love you too much ♪ ♪ Heaven's my witness, and this is a fact ♪ ♪ I know I belong ♪ ♪ When we sing this song ♪ ♪ There's love above love and it's ours ♪ ♪ 'Cause I love you too much ♪ -I love you too much.
-♪ Heaven knows your name ♪ ♪ I've been praying ♪ ♪ To have you come here by my side ♪ -♪ Without you, a part of me is missing ♪ ♪ Just to make you my own, I will fight ♪ ♪♪ -Look to me, to the camera.
♪♪ -"Look to the camera."
[ Laughs ] -Hi, the camera.
-[ Laughs ] -♪ When I sing this song ♪ ♪ There's love above love, and it's ours ♪ ♪ 'Cause I love you ♪ -[ Imitating motors whirring ] [ Moody music plays ] ♪♪ [ Both grunting ] -I'm the queen of the world!
This is where the monster dog was buried.
I don't know why it was called monster dog.
Probably because it was scary.
♪♪ ♪♪ -... [ Crying ] ♪♪ Our children are going hungry.
Our hunters are so humiliated.
Our young men are so humiliated.
Shame on all those bastards.
Shame on them all.
I hope at least they go to bed, and I hope at least, after these words, that those who should be doing their jobs will go to bed tonight... and be unable to sleep because they're not...doing their job.
Doesn't matter what job they're in.
It doesn't matter if they're in health, in housing, in community empowerment, in suicide prevention, in mental health.
Doesn't matter what job you're holding.
Shame on you.
[ Moody music continues ] ♪♪ Hello, my friend!
Ooh.
So gorgeous.
Oh.
Beautiful.
So, in the six months, I've had to try to take my little heart and try to mend it again and then try to take my soul back, but what it did, this process, what it did was it focused me.
I'm 58 years old.
What is it that I want to do with my life?
I can't just be sitting at home and doing my sewing.
All these experiences are not pitiful.
I'm not ungrateful.
I'm not hurt by them.
I am now grateful that I went through all these experiences and all this learning, and now I want to put it on paper.
Not out of pity, not out of shame, but just to help other people who have gone through similar or whatever hardship and turn it into, yes, this happened, but now I have to use that experience and turn it into something amazing and beautiful.
Before coming down here to speak with you, I was supposed to meet with a good friend of mine, but last minute, he had to cancel because he lost someone very dear to her, and I know how that feels, how devastating that is, because seven months ago, I lost my son, and it was devastating.
We are losing so many young people.
-It's a crisis.
-It's a crisis, and nobody's doing anything.
Like, it's insane.
It's insane.
We keep asking, "Why?
Why is this happening?"
No, we have to stop saying -- we have to stop using that language.
It's no longer, "Why?"
It is now, "How?"
How do we stop this?
And that's what's propelling me.
And a few days ago, my now ex-boyfriend cut my hair to shame me because he knew Lin was coming to film me.
He knew I was going to Abu Dhabi to speak.
I was going to Sweden.
And I was so humiliated.
I was so humiliated.
It didn't look as nice as this.
I went home, back to the Arctic, and had a woman cut it.
But the most amazing thing was, "Yes, of course, you cut your hair in your own culture when you have lost your own son."
So people thought I had done it on purpose, but it was done to me to humiliate me, and that just, like a rocket, propelled me in the other direction.
I'm so proud of my haircut.
I'm so proud.
It has totally focused me now on what I needed to do.
I look forward to.
Yes?
-I'm just super grateful to be in this classroom, because myself, I was very blinded.
I was very ignorant.
I did not know.
I'm just very privileged to get this information.
I just hope I take it upon myself to share it.
I just wanted to say thank you for even coming.
When madam told us you were coming, I got so excited.
-Oh, that's wonderful.
-You are truly -- it's, wow.
-Thank you for your kindness.
[ The High Dials' "Diamonds in the Dark" plays ] New York City!
-♪ I live in the sky ♪ -Your next number is under the N. 3-6.
-[ Speaking indistinctly ] -B-13.
-And I can't wait to run away.
-[ Laughs ] -Your next number, again, it's the under the B -- B-7.
-B-7.
-B-7.
[ Zikaza's "Ilaatigut" plays ] ♪♪ [ Singing in native language ] ♪♪ ♪♪ [ Cellphone ringing ] -It's the ..... That's the ...., and I want to capture -- I want you to capture it.
But listen!
[ Ringing continues ] Hello, sweetheart.
Thank you so much for kicking my ass to propel me to do the things that I wanted to do.
-You know I would never have done anything intentional like that.
I believe you have another boyfriend.
-You're asking me, at my age?
At 58?
But I am planning, sweetheart-- -There's a lot of handsome young men and middle-aged men down in Apax who would be beside you in a minute.
So I'm asking you if you have another boyfriend.
-Who...cares?
When I left the cottage, sweetheart, I left you.
When you cut my hair and you humiliated me... -Aaju.
-You already -- no, don't...talk!
-Aaju, it should be said-- -Don't!
Don't talk!
Don't talk.
[ Phone beeps ] ... ... What am I gonna... What am I gonna say?
Oh... [ Sewing machine whirring ] [ Soft music plays ] ♪♪ ♪♪ Oh, sweetheart, you're so cute.
[ Chuckles ] ♪♪ So cute.
[ Sewing machine whirring ] ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ [ Dog barks ] ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ -It has been my awakening.
Now that I'm awakening to be with the living.
All this...that blurred my whole vision just cleared.
All this...this...
I'm devoting 24/7, so many years, into nothing.
I mean, nothing!
I'm just breathing and eating and...
Breathing, eating, and...and then sleeping.
That was not the role of being born into this world.
You're born to this world to make a difference.
[ Ringing ] -Air Canada announces the arrival of Flight 650.
-I was born in Greenland and colonized by the Danes, and then I moved to the Canadian Arctic, then being colonized by Southern Canada.
So our history has been written by outsiders and visitors.
I want to write our own history.
After 50 years of processing all this and afraid of confronting what really happened.
I haven't been able to leave the trauma and learned behavior behind.
I find myself in situations that are not good for me, but that's what I know.
[ Soft music plays ] ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ [ Somber music plays ] ♪♪ ♪♪ [ Soft music plays ] ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ -Where I grew up, like we were born into straitjackets.
We couldn't laugh and run around.
We couldn't just be children.
In my adult life, why am I continuing this straitjacket kind of living?
♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ I'm just exhausted.
I think it's the jet lag.
I've been wanting to learn so much, and I have so much to learn still.
Anyways... [ Percussive music plays ] ♪♪ Oh, my God.
Look at this.
The Empire is here.
Very impressive.
♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ -Hi.
-Nice to see you.
-Hi -Hi.
-Rasmus.
-Hi.
We were just sacrificed, the human sacrifice of all this political "I'm too good to be true."
And people just bought all this anti-sealing.
Nobody dared to speak against it.
Europe prides itself on Indigenous rights, and opportunity and their declaration, and I think the best thing that Europe could do is to establish a permanent forum for Indigenous peoples.
Not just Inuit, but all Indigenous peoples.
-Yeah, yeah, yeah.
-So that they could go to speak on matters.
So that Indigenous people could speak on matters that affect them.
-I actually once invited the French Foreign Minister to Greenland to discuss these issues, and it was a very interesting discussion, because it turned out that, to him, it was completely new, but he was also very blunt that this is going to be very difficult to happen.
There are many other things on his plate like the war in Syria and Ukraine-Russia.
So it's just, I got, for the first time, a real impression of how difficult it is to lift this, especially in the southern European countries, but also in the U.K. and other places.
So we have a big challenge ahead of us.
Okay.
Thank you.
Great initiative, Aaja, it was very nice of you.
-Thank you.
-Aaju, a pleasure meeting you.
-Oh, thank you.
[ Laughter ] -Thank you.
-Thanks for coming.
-Thank you for coming.
See you.
[ Beeping ] -I can go downstairs, or I can smoke out the window.
-Oh.
Careful.
-I am careful.
I'm not gonna jump out like my son.
-Leave this man at once.
-Yeah.
But it was not just that aspect.
It was coming back to Copenhagen, meeting parliamentarians.
I just had to hide all that behind me and just do what I came to do.
-With bruises on your face.
-...Yeah.
I did it.
We were thinking Maori.
-You want a Maori.
Oh, that would do, too!
[ Both laugh ] -Mm, I could do... No, I don't need a man.
I need to find myself.
-Yeah.
-Yeah.
[ Knock on door ] -Hi.
-Hi.
Okay, off we go to Jokkmokk.
[ Soft music plays ] ♪♪ Hi!
♪♪ If I want to make a difference, I have to meet other Indigenous people to see how colonization has affected us and to see how it's still affecting us today.
-[ Laughing ] -Thanks for coming.
-Thanks for inviting me.
-Hi.
-Hi.
♪♪ [ Dog barking ] [ Dog barks ] -We are now trying to build a court case to try to protect the forest because we have seen that the courts are the battlefields where we can actually succeed.
We saw that now in the latest court case, Girjas vs. the Swedish state.
Then the Smi community, Girjas, won, all the way to the Supreme Court.
And even though, now, in modern times, the state lawyers used language from the 1800s.
They called us Lap, a word that we have not been using for like -- I don't know.
It's not our word, of our people.
We have our own word, Smi.
They said to us that "you don't even exist here," in different ways.
And I think that is...
I believe that they have no more arguments in order to take our land and our rights than to say that you don't exist, "Because if you don't exist, I cannot oppress you."
♪♪ -I'm so tired of being spoken about as if I'm not existing anymore.
We're here, we're breathing, we are creating, we are telling stories, and all the time, I dive into our history and read about something that once was.
And I'm like, "Wait."
-Yeah.
You know, I'm alive.
I'm Inuk.
I'm still here.
-Yeah.
And why am I not allowed somehow?
I have to conform into this idea of what was is gone, and I'm a product of something that is related to that in the new world.
-Yeah.
How old were you when you were taken?
-I was 6.
And I was in boarding schools until nine years.
They tried to make me a Swede, but they failed.
-Mm.
[ Laughter ] That must have been very hard for you.
-For everybody.
-So young.
-Yeah, and I imagine the village in the mountain.
From one day to the other, it was totally silent.
-Yeah.
-No kids, no laughter, no shouting.
-Yeah.
-Oh, that's a perspective, too.
They emptied the laughter.
-And the mothers became left alone.
-There's this saying in Canada where they say, "Take the Indian out of the child," and I think, with colonized peoples, the end result was, we forgot our language, our culture, our connection.
There was so much destruction.
-Mm.
-Yeah.
♪♪ -I had a meeting with the Danish Minister of Foreign Affairs, where we talked about the new Arctic strategy for the kingdom of Denmark, and I had a whole section about how it would be such a strong strategy if it showed solidarity towards the Greenlandic wish for independency.
And then he told me, "I mean, it's not up to us if you want to be independent or not.
I just want to say that, if you gain independency, it's not proper independency.
Then you'll have to find somebody else because you're not strong enough as a country, and I think you won't find anybody else who's as good as Denmark."
That's literally what he told me.
-Yeah.
Doesn't matter what, where, or when.
If it's unjust, it's not acceptable.
-No.
-This was the commission reports.
It's quite extensive.
And essentially conclude that what needed to be done was that the school needed to be Danified and the society at large needed to be industrialized.
And the narrative, if you analyze the kind of language and the way Greenlanders and Greenlandic cultures is talked about in these volumes, it's as a culture that is inferior to Danish or European culture.
-Yeah.
-So... -That comes as a total surprise.
Just kidding.
[ Both laugh ] -Probably not!
[ Laughs ] -So, my question would be then, how did the Danish government, or whoever it was, or Greenland, determine that Greenland should become absorbed as part of the Danish empire and not a colony?
-Officially, in Nuuk, in 1952, what the Danish authorities said or suggested was that the Greenlanders could get two members in the Danish parliament.
And they didn't mention that that would, by default, also decolonize Greenland and make it part of Denmark.
And the most crucial part they didn't mention was that, by accepting that offer, the Greenlandic population would lose their right to independence.
-Wow.
-Yeah.
That wasn't -- That wasn't mentioned at all.
You become angry?
-No.
I'm just relearning my Danish.
-Yeah.
[ Both laugh ] -Don't fall.
I've met so many amazing people.
This is the first time where I'm walking down the street and there's so many Danes staring at me, looking at me.
I feel invincible, like I have a raincoat that is bulletproof, and they can't say or do anything to embarrass me anymore.
I went to Canada, and I was with the Inuit, and I learned so much, and now I can come back and carry all that with me as power.
It's so powerful.
[ Soft music plays ] ♪♪ ♪♪ [ Wind blowing ] ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ I just wish he would give this place to me because this is where I would just live all the time.
I can't believe we didn't lock this.
Come on in.
-Thank you.
-Whoops.
Okay.
That's all.
That's everything I'm taking.
-Okay.
-Did you guys turn it?
-Yes, ma'am.
-Was it full of water?
-There was a bit of water near the front.
-Oh.
I'm not ready to go, but-- -What's that?
-I'm not ready to go, but I can go.
I just wanna stay here.
I think I need to come back.
-Yeah?
I have this feeling that I really wanna hug you.
Is that okay?
-[ Laughs ] -I have to do it like this.
-Mm.
And look around.
-Mm.
I don't want to leave it.
-Well, you don't have to leave "it."
It's a place, right?
-Yeah.
-It's a physical place.
-But it's my place.
-Mm-hmm.
-Okay.
[ Somber music plays ] [ Door opens, closes ] [ Sniffling ] ♪♪ My son made that garden for me.
♪♪ [ Cellphone rings ] It's Marcus.
-Oh.
-Hello?
I think you have a hard time understanding what I'm saying, that I need my own space.
I need my own healing.
I need to get back to being me.
And, somehow, it doesn't register with you.
Ugh!
Can we just stop talking now?
[ Scoffs ] He thinks I'm having an affair with you, or he thinks I'm having an affair with Andrew or Michael.
-[ Laughs ] -And I just hung up.
And every conversation goes to that.
[ Breathes deeply ] Oh, yes.
He reminded me why I left.
This is the height my son jumped from to his death.
So when I'm in a hotel...
I look down, and I go, "Oh, my God."
The nerve you would have to have to jump.
Ooh!
At that height.
I think... nothing much has changed.
But I think the change has come in me instead to suck it up and just to learn to assert my own rights and to assert myself, and if you have a problem with it, too bad, because now I'm old enough.
In the future, if we all work together, hopefully my granddaughters will have a much better future, a much better chance.
It will get better.
[ Percussive music plays ] ♪♪ -We invited you because we think you all have very strong and powerful knowledge that is very relevant for the project we're doing.
-Without further ado, please join me in welcoming Ms. Aaju Peter.
[ Applause ] -When the European seal ban was put into force, it just crashed our only economy.
We tried to go to Europe, but Europe wouldn't listen to this.
-I personally feel like the E.U.
often forget or overlook Indigenous matters that have a ripple effect on Indigenous people.
And we're not consulted, we're not there, we're not present, which is why it's really important to have someone there permanently.
-I would like to suggest that there be established a permanent forum for Indigenous peoples at the European Union.
♪♪ How are you?
-Good!
-I think the time is right.
I mean, it feels good.
I have a good feeling about it that the European Union will not turn it down because the European Union wants to have the dialogue with the Arctic.
They know they made a bummer with the seal ban, and they know also that the decision was based more on animal rights activists' voices and not on the Indigenous people.
They owe us.
They know it.
-We occupy a lot of sea, we occupy a lot of land, and we should be included in the discussions as nation states are.
Thank you so much.
[ Applause ] -Yeah.
[ Laughter ] [ Laughter ] ♪♪ -You were fantastic.
-Thank you.
I'm so glad it's over.
-I'm sure!
♪♪ -I loved your speech.
-Oh.
Thank you.
-Beautiful, thank you so much.
-Thank you.
-You are lovely!
-Oh, thank you.
Thank you so much.
♪♪ -Congratulations.
-Thank you.
-And I wanted to make a comment on your speech.
Really, I appreciate it.
[ Wind blowing ] [ Utensils clattering ] [ Man speaking in native language ] -I-19.
O-68.
O-6-8.
I-2-4.
I-24.
-Grandma, can you come upstairs?
I don't know where to put this without you.
-Which one did you wanna see?
-Oh, that, with the sparkles.
-This one?
-Yeah.
-Okay.
-It's so beautiful.
-You can try it.
It's just a dress.
It's a Happy New Year dress.
-Wow!
-Does it fit her?
-It's gonna fit everybody.
-It counts as a pillow.
-They're actually clashing with your look.
-"Classing"?
-Yes.
-What does it mean?
Look, Grandma.
-Wow!
Beautiful.
-Also, look!
-Wow!
Very nice.
[ Drumming ] -That's the easiest.
You should do that one.
[ Imitating drum beating ] -The faster she goes, the faster you two go.
[ Drumming continues ] -You guys are great.
[ Drumming continues ] ♪♪ ♪♪ [ Soft music plays ] ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ [ Zikaza's "Ilaatigut" plays ] ♪♪ ♪♪ [ Man singing in native language ] ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪
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