In a tiny workshop in Greenland's capital Nuuk, goldsmith Nadja Arnaaraq Kreutzmann polishes metals and stones mined and gathered on the vast mineral-rich island. The jewellery she crafts is adorned with Inuit symbols of life and survival.

NUUK, Greenland (AP) — About 90% of the 57,000 Greenlanders identify as Inuit and the vast majority of them belong to the Lutheran Church today, more than 300 years after a Danish missionary brought that branch of Christianity to the world’s largest island.

For many, their devotion to ritual and tradition is as much a part of what it means to be a Greenlander as is their fierce deference to the homeland.

Greenland is huge — about three times the size of Texas; most of it covered in ice ... arrival of colonialism and the suppression of rich Inuit traditions and culture by Lutheran missionaries ...

Inuit Pride Stirs Independence Mood in Greenland ... 57,000 people spread across an area around three times the size of Texas, is an autonomous territory within the Kingdom of Denmark and can ...

NUUK, Greenland — About 90% of the 57,000 Greenlanders identify as Inuit and the vast majority ... is huge — about three times the size of Texas; most of it covered in ice.