WEBVTT 00:00.302 --> 00:07.602 I wore winter boots every day for two years. I hate climbing trees. I'm Deborah Goldstein, 00:07.602 --> 00:13.822 host of the podcast The Big Fib, and half of those statements were indeed fibs. On every 00:13.822 --> 00:19.622 episode of The Big Fib, we bring on two grownups. One is an expert and the other is a liar. And 00:19.622 --> 00:24.502 it's the job of our human child contestant to help us figure out who is who, because no one 00:24.502 --> 00:30.074 can spot a liar better than a kid. We've had episodes on everything from Minecraft to mythology 00:30.074 --> 00:37.614 and from Lego to libraries. Join me and my robot co-host Lisa on the Big Fib on Apple podcasts 00:37.614 --> 00:45.694 or on gzmshows.com. Coming up on The Children's Hour, we're taking a trip to Greenland to learn 00:45.694 --> 00:51.134 about the world's largest island and the people who live there. We'll explore Greenland's 00:51.134 --> 00:57.238 culture, landscape, and hear music in the Greenlandic language. Our guest is children's book author 00:57.238 --> 01:03.098 Naja Lund Aparico, whose book, Seasons by the Lake, takes young readers through a year of 01:03.098 --> 01:08.958 life on the island. We'll find out the history of the Greenlandic people from the first migrations 01:08.958 --> 01:14.538 until today. Celebrate Indigenous Peoples' Day with The Children's Hour and learn with 01:14.538 --> 01:20.786 us about Greenland. This episode has a learning guide at childrenshour.org. Look for Greenland. 01:21.518 --> 01:25.838 The Children's Hour is an independent production of The Children's Hour Incorporated, a New 01:25.838 --> 01:31.578 Mexico based non-profit. We're distributed by Native Voice One, the Native American radio 01:31.578 --> 01:45.218 network. It's time for the Children's Hour. Kids Public Radio. What is a Greenlander's 01:45.218 --> 01:57.534 favorite cereal? I don't know what. Ice Krispies! It's time for the children's hour! Kids Public 01:57.534 --> 02:02.418 Radio! 02:05.774 --> 02:17.954 Hello, Bonjour, buenos dias, g'day, guten tag, konichiwa, ciao, shalom, dobre dia, hello to all the 02:17.954 --> 02:25.214 children of the world. We live in different places from all around the world. We speak 02:25.214 --> 02:31.934 in many different ways. Though some things might be different, we're children just the 02:31.934 --> 02:44.506 same, and we all like to sing and play. Hello, bonjour, buenos dias, g'day, guten tag, konichiwa, 02:44.506 --> 02:53.726 ciao, shalom, dobre dia Hello to all the children of the world. There are children in 02:53.726 --> 03:01.706 the desert and children in the towns and children who live down by the sea. If we could meet 03:01.706 --> 03:08.210 each other to run and sing and play, then what We are good, me 03:11.790 --> 03:30.102 Hello to all the children of the world Hello to all the children of the world 03:41.838 --> 03:47.578 That was Hello to All the Children of the World by Wee Sing. I'm Katie Stone. You're listening 03:47.578 --> 03:51.918 to the Children's Hour. I'm here with a lot of great kids at the Outpost and on Zoom. Hello, 03:51.918 --> 03:59.738 everybody. Hello. And who do we have with us today? Hi, it's Thorfinn. Hi, it's Asa. 03:59.878 --> 04:07.478 Hello, it's Amadeus. Hi, it's Luminata. Hi, it's Nina. Hi, it's Vander. Hello, it's Max. 04:07.518 --> 04:14.802 Hello, it's Killian. Hi, it's Keaton. Hello, it's Kaibia. Hello, it's Teddy. Hi, it's Xander. 04:15.302 --> 04:23.062 Hi, it's Amaya. Hello, it's Lucas D. Hi, it's Ron. Hi, it's Marcel. Well, everyone, thank 04:23.062 --> 04:28.122 you so much for being here today out there in Listener Land here on Zoom and here at the 04:28.122 --> 04:34.522 Outpost. I am so excited about our topic today because I keep hearing about it in the news, 04:34.522 --> 04:40.102 but I don't really know that much about it. It's Greenland. Have you guys been hearing 04:40.102 --> 04:45.922 about Greenland lately? Yes. You to know. A lot of headlines. Quite a bit. It's a country, 04:46.002 --> 04:50.542 I think, although it's a big island. We are going to learn about Greenland. What do you 04:50.542 --> 04:56.482 all know about Greenland? Looks icy. Looks cold, doesn't it? I see pictures and it looks really 04:56.482 --> 05:02.522 kind of what we would say is foreboding, right? It's got these big mountains. It's really, 05:02.522 --> 05:09.290 really, really cold. Yet, whenever you see pictures of Greenland, it's always so- colorful 05:09.290 --> 05:14.010 even though it's Greenland and that's because it's just got a really colorful culture like 05:14.010 --> 05:20.130 people make it really beautiful and when I see things online it's often about glaciers and 05:20.130 --> 05:27.090 a lot of freshwater of the planet is actually in Greenland in glaciers. So we have a ton 05:27.090 --> 05:33.190 to learn about Greenland and our guest that we have coming up is an author of a new children's 05:33.190 --> 05:39.362 book. It's called Seasons by the Lake Adventures in Greenland. Her name is Naja Lund Aparico 05:39.362 --> 05:44.222 and she's gonna be with us for the whole hour. We're gonna learn about Greenland. This is 05:44.222 --> 05:48.082 the Children's Hour. Stick with us. You can find our learning guide for this episode at 05:48.082 --> 05:51.154 childrenshour.org. Look for Greenland. 08:14.574 --> 08:21.474 The music you're hearing today on the show is from Greenland. That was Diisaq by Hinnarik Kammanilu. 08:21.854 --> 08:26.054 You're listening to the Children's Hour. I'm Katie Stone here with a whole lot of great 08:26.054 --> 08:34.074 people at the outpost and on Zoom. And the kids crew and I are with Naja Lund Aparico. She is 08:34.074 --> 08:40.534 a Greenlandic Inuk with a background in international relations. She's a children's book author and 08:40.534 --> 08:47.738 her book is just beautiful and it teaches us about Greenland. It's called Seasons by the 08:47.738 --> 08:54.138 Lake Adventures in Greenland. Welcome to The Children's Hour Naya. Oh, thank you, Katie. How 08:54.138 --> 09:01.018 did Greenland get its name? The lore says that it comes from Eric the Red, that was the Norseman, 09:01.018 --> 09:08.818 the Viking that came to Greenland in 982, and that he wanted to attract more of his fellows 09:08.818 --> 09:15.022 from Iceland or Norway to make a settlement there. So he named it Greenland, even though 09:15.022 --> 09:21.662 it was icy. He was actually a fugitive. They wanted, you know, his head basically for committing 09:21.662 --> 09:28.442 a crime. So he was escaping Iceland and then he found Greenland to be away from everything 09:28.442 --> 09:34.342 else until his sentence was basically over and he could return. But by then he already had 09:34.342 --> 09:41.526 kind of created a society. And I think they were there for about 500 years. I would like to say 09:41.526 --> 09:47.506 that for me, Greenland's not that green. Like they say Greenland is just icy where Iceland 09:47.506 --> 09:55.446 is green. I don't think it's true. For me, Iceland is black because of the volcanic, you know, 09:55.546 --> 10:03.146 rocks and then Greenland has more color. Is Greenland mostly ice all over it? Oh yes, of 10:03.146 --> 10:09.186 course. It's covered by the ice sheet. The Greenland ice sheet is huge. It's ginormous. I think 10:09.186 --> 10:15.874 it's 85 % of all of Greenland is covered in ice. And people can only live at the edge, 10:15.874 --> 10:21.754 like the coastline. And so because of that, there's no street, a lot of roads in between 10:21.754 --> 10:27.754 the towns. The ice is as thick as a mile. We have to fly or we have to go by boat. What 10:27.754 --> 10:34.234 are we going to see? We get off of our airplane, apparently, or our kayak in Nuuk, and what 10:34.234 --> 10:39.902 will we see? Is it really all white and full of ice? That's kind of what we imagine. If 10:39.902 --> 10:44.882 you come during the summer, it's not going to be all white. And the first thing you're going 10:44.882 --> 10:51.062 to notice is it's very rocky and there are no trees. So imagine everything's visible, the 10:51.062 --> 10:56.242 whole ground, everything's visible. Everything's right close to the water and it's just gorgeous. 10:56.662 --> 11:02.822 Wait, there's no trees in Greenland? We have a lot of like shrubs, you know, smaller because 11:02.822 --> 11:09.050 they have to keep tight to the ground to stay alive all through the winter. We have imported 11:09.050 --> 11:14.810 trees down in the South that look like evergreen trees, but they're very short. Wow. I can't 11:14.810 --> 11:22.070 imagine a place with no trees. I've seen pictures of Greenland and your buildings are so colorful. 11:22.070 --> 11:28.910 Yes. In the beginning, when we had kind of the missionaries and, you know, the tradesmen, 11:29.010 --> 11:35.330 color was used for coding. Like what was health, think was like yellow. The buildings were yellow. 11:35.758 --> 11:43.338 Red, think that was like churches and then green with schools. It was coded. We don't use that 11:43.338 --> 11:48.978 anymore, but color is big for houses. You're listening to the Children's Hour and today 11:48.978 --> 11:55.018 we're learning about Greenland. Our guest is Naja Lund Aparico and she's written a book 11:55.018 --> 12:01.378 called Seasons by the Lake: Adventures in Greenland. It's a picture book, but it has a lot in it 12:01.378 --> 12:06.690 to learn for all of us. There's a learning guide that comes with this episode. You can find it at 12:06.690 --> 12:13.710 childrenshour.org. Look for Greenland. We've got more coming up. Stick with us. This is 12:13.710 --> 12:14.622 The Children's Hour. 20:34.222 --> 20:43.082 That was Pilerineq-Tikineq by Sume. And before that, you heard another by Hinnarik Kammanilu 20:43.082 --> 20:49.342 right here on The Children's Hour. 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Listen to the 21:34.014 --> 21:39.832 Children's Hour Shorts wherever you get your podcasts or at childrenshour.org slash shorts. 27:27.982 --> 27:34.742 That was the single Kalaaliuvunga by Sume. You're listening to The Children's Hour. Our 27:34.742 --> 27:41.642 guest is Naja Lund Aparico. She is the author of Seasons by the Lake: Adventures in Greenland. 27:41.922 --> 27:47.662 She is Greenlandic Inuk and she is here with us on The Children's Hour. Let's go over to 27:47.662 --> 27:53.922 Nina. How did the Inuit people end up settling in Greenland? We are mostly indigenous Inuit 27:53.922 --> 28:02.210 in Greenland that came from around year 1100 that migrated from Canada. Inuit are nomadic 28:02.210 --> 28:08.450 people and there've been several migrations, six or five migrations in total that goes all 28:08.450 --> 28:17.850 the way back 4,500 years ago. And our last migration, the Thule people, they came around year 1100. 28:17.850 --> 28:23.490 And then there several theories why they came. It could be that they sought the marine mammals 28:23.490 --> 28:29.394 that were going that way. or that they didn't have space in Canada, that they had maybe fights 28:29.394 --> 28:36.774 with other groups or tribes. So it's theories that we know of. Was there a land bridge between 28:36.774 --> 28:43.914 Canada and Greenland for the migration to happen or did everyone come over on kayaks? I think 28:43.914 --> 28:49.674 the land base was ice, the sea ice. So up by Canada between Canada and Greenland's really 28:49.674 --> 28:56.442 very tiny. distance that freezes over in the winter. So it's been possible to cross. And 28:56.442 --> 29:02.202 for us, sea ice is land that freezes over in the winter. Wait, so you're saying that when 29:02.202 --> 29:10.042 you're up in the north of Greenland, you consider these big glacial icebergs almost, like you 29:10.042 --> 29:16.482 consider that land. Well, there's a difference between icebergs and sea ice. That's the sea 29:16.482 --> 29:23.618 frozen over in very, very deep, deep depths. Glaciers are coming from the Greenland ice 29:23.618 --> 29:28.698 sheet. They fall off the Greenland ice sheet. So those are the icebergs. Are there a lot 29:28.698 --> 29:36.438 of animals in the Greenland ocean? Lots of marine mammals. Definitely. Lots and lots. There's 29:36.438 --> 29:43.218 all sorts of seals. We have whales. We can see whales from our windows just out in the fjord. 29:43.278 --> 29:49.696 We consider polar bears as marine mammals because they live on the sea ice and a lot of sea birds. 29:49.966 --> 29:56.226 You have polar bears? We do. We don't see them much in town though, but in the South where 29:56.226 --> 30:01.466 I'm from, they come with a, we call them pack ice. That means it's the ice that comes from 30:01.466 --> 30:06.786 the East Greenland, basically from the North Pole area. And it travels with the Gulf stream 30:06.786 --> 30:13.066 around the South and further up North. And that brings polar bears. Naja, you're Greenlandic 30:13.066 --> 30:18.266 Inuk. That's a very special culture. And I'm sure there are certain things that define 30:18.266 --> 30:25.362 your culture. Our culture is very traditional indigenous culture, which means our living 30:25.362 --> 30:34.272 is based on the marine wildlife, means our ancestors and still today, hunted seals, whales, seabirds, 30:34.272 --> 30:41.022 you know, we're living off fish. So it's very marine based and we were going around with 30:41.022 --> 30:48.442 umyaks and khayak. So that's kind of the bigger pictures of what Inuit life is. To me, what 30:48.442 --> 30:55.962 defines and what really sets it apart from bigger Western places is that we don't consider nature 30:55.962 --> 31:02.002 a place to be bought. In fact, you can't own land in Greenland. You can't buy land. Our 31:02.002 --> 31:08.002 land is communal, meaning everybody owns all of Greenland. We can't go in and say, I want 31:08.002 --> 31:12.902 to buy this piece of lot. What you can get is you can get a permit to build on that piece 31:12.902 --> 31:19.174 of land, but you never own the land. And that makes you kind of responsible for your neighbors, 31:19.174 --> 31:25.154 your neighbors are responsible for you. It's a sense of everybody's a part of it. I suppose 31:25.154 --> 31:32.214 no one knows that actually. Probably, probably not. With nature, we don't consider it something 31:32.214 --> 31:38.894 that we have to control. We just live through the rhythms and let that decide, the nature 31:38.894 --> 31:44.974 decide, can we go out today? I mean, we mostly go out every day, but we're not the bosses 31:44.974 --> 31:51.834 of nature. The nature is our boss and we will happily comply with what it's giving us. This 31:51.834 --> 31:57.174 is The Children's Hour. Stick with us. You can find our learning guide for this episode at ChildrensHour.org. 31:57.294 --> 32:06.194 Look for Greenland. 34:09.262 --> 34:15.542 That was Kaakkukkakkit by Hinnarik Kammanilu. You're listening to The Children's Hour and today 34:15.542 --> 34:22.762 on the show we're learning about Greenland. Our guest is Naja Lund Apariko. She's a Greenlandic 34:22.762 --> 34:28.882 Inuk and she's also written a book called Seasons by the Lake: Adventures in Greenland. It's a 34:28.882 --> 34:35.622 picture book for kids, but really all ages can learn a lot. What inspired you to write the 34:35.622 --> 34:43.222 book you wrote? As a child, I played a lot outdoors because our communities are so small and everything's 34:43.222 --> 34:49.942 pretty like local. So we get a lot of freedom to play, you know, go to the lake. My mom and 34:49.942 --> 34:54.782 dad, they probably just let us out the door and we could just go to school, like walk on 34:54.782 --> 35:00.762 the way and then just not even come home after school. So you just do your thing until it's 35:00.762 --> 35:07.218 dinner time. Then you go home. When it's winter, we get to build little Iglu's or we fish down by 35:07.218 --> 35:12.858 the creek or it's just a lot of outdoor adventuring by ourselves. So my children's book, Seasons 35:12.858 --> 35:20.458 by the Lake, it's about, you guessed it, seasons and life adventures down by the lake year round. 35:20.618 --> 35:26.498 Every year is different, but mostly we have four seasons. They're just not equal. We have 35:26.498 --> 35:32.418 long winters, very long winters. Sometimes it's nine months. Is it dark all the time in your 35:32.418 --> 35:38.178 winter? The higher up north you are, the closer to the North Pole, the darker and longer it 35:38.178 --> 35:44.358 is with no sun. So you don't see daylight at all. Give us an example. What time does the 35:44.358 --> 35:50.958 sun set on a winter day in December? So if you're up in Qaanaq, I think the last time you see 35:50.958 --> 35:57.178 the sun would be sometime in November, maybe even October. Like it never comes up. It never 35:57.178 --> 36:02.352 comes up if you're really close to the North Pole. It gets almost daylight. It's like twilight. 36:02.926 --> 36:09.986 but not quite sun. It doesn't rise at all. People who grew up there are used to it. Once the 36:09.986 --> 36:16.626 winter solstice hit, the light comes back really quickly. What is the average temperatures outdoor 36:16.626 --> 36:23.106 in Greenland? Just like in United States where the differences between the North, if you're 36:23.106 --> 36:28.926 in Alaska, and down if you're in Texas, it's very different. Obviously we're not hot, hot, 36:28.926 --> 36:34.938 hot and long summers the way they are here in United States. But in Nuuk where I'm from, 36:34.938 --> 36:41.978 which is in the south, in the summer we get as high as about 55, 60, and that's really 36:41.978 --> 36:50.018 hot. And then in the winter we can get as cold, this is in Celsius, minus 25 Celsius. So it's 36:50.018 --> 36:56.458 negative 13 degrees Fahrenheit. The 65 degrees was in Fahrenheit. That's crazy. But in the 36:56.458 --> 37:02.410 north, it's going to be a lot colder. We have to put a lot of layers, as you can imagine. 37:02.410 --> 37:08.230 If you've ever gone skiing up in the mountains, you have to put a lot of layers on. And we're 37:08.230 --> 37:13.790 good at that. We have always layers and layers on. But in the old days, they had to use seal 37:13.790 --> 37:20.030 skin to keep them warm. As you might have heard, it's getting a lot warmer. The climate's getting 37:20.030 --> 37:25.590 a lot warmer. The hunters are the ones that are most affected because they usually are 37:25.590 --> 37:30.778 catching what they're hunting from the sea ice and that's disappearing. If they don't 37:30.778 --> 37:37.018 have sea ice, there's no basis for their traditional ways of life. So that's changing a lot in the 37:37.018 --> 37:43.378 communities. We've been seeing like movies and things of glaciers melting into the ocean. 37:43.918 --> 37:48.418 Have you seen that in real life? Have you seen any of that going on around where you lived 37:48.418 --> 37:55.334 in Greenland? I think the way I would see it in that area, we live in bigger cities. is 37:55.334 --> 38:00.454 that it's warmer. There are some winters that we don't really get snow. I mean, we do get 38:00.454 --> 38:06.844 snow, but it's very little compared to when we grew up in the 80s or 70s. A lot of snow, 38:06.844 --> 38:13.674 like it would just be for so many months, just packs, but not anymore. The voice you're hearing 38:13.674 --> 38:21.214 is Naja Lund Aparico. She is an author of a book that came out recently called Seasons 38:21.214 --> 38:27.278 by the Lake: Adventures in Greenland. Today on The Children's Hour, we're learning about Greenland. 38:27.278 --> 38:32.458 There's a learning guide that comes with this episode. You can find it at childrenshour.org. 38:32.518 --> 38:44.690 Look for Greenland. 40:49.262 --> 40:54.962 That was Tulugaq by Nive Nielsen and the Dear Children, Tulugak is an Inuit word that means 40:54.962 --> 41:01.022 raven. You're listening to The Children's Hour, kids' public radio. We'll be right back. 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How big is 45:54.394 --> 45:59.614 Greenland and what is the capital? It's the largest island in the world. So it's huge. 45:59.614 --> 46:08.284 It's big. I would say it's about a quarter, 25 % of US size, the size of US. And then, oh, 46:08.284 --> 46:15.370 capital is Nuuk. That's where I'm from. And it's N-U-U-K, right? Yep, that's correct. I'm 46:15.370 --> 46:21.030 aware of the fact that Greenland is classified as a territory of Denmark. Why is Greenland 46:21.030 --> 46:27.730 considered a country? Oh, it is a country. It is not an independent nation, meaning we're 46:27.730 --> 46:33.430 a part of the Danish kingdom. What's like the official language of Greenland? The official 46:33.430 --> 46:38.450 language in Greenland is Greenlandic, which is an Inuit language, just like they speak 46:38.450 --> 46:44.806 in Alaska and Canada. So even though the dialect or the language has developed a lot since the 46:44.806 --> 46:50.966 migrations from Alaska over to Canada and from Canada to Greenland over thousands of years, 46:51.046 --> 46:56.826 it's still very similar. I can understand a lot what the Inuit are saying in Alaska and 46:56.826 --> 47:04.206 in Canada. What is the population of Greenland? Do you want to make a guess? 2.4 million. 47:04.346 --> 47:10.246 Let's go a million thousand. 100 point a thousand. A hundred thousand, he thinks. Very close. 47:10.246 --> 47:17.286 It's 56,000 people for the whole country. That's it? That's it. Just so folks who are living 47:17.286 --> 47:24.786 here in Albuquerque know, we have almost a million people in the city. Nearly 700,000, I think. 47:24.886 --> 47:31.106 Oh, we're going down. Just for the smaller Albuquerque area. But I mean, that is way lower than I 47:31.106 --> 47:36.138 thought it would be for Greenland, I mean, wow. It's mostly Scandinavians, I would say, mostly 47:36.138 --> 47:43.878 Danish. Like about 20 % of the population is Danish. So maybe 8%, 5 % are foreigners. I 47:43.878 --> 47:49.258 think Thai are there, maybe Filipino. We do have here and there, my husband was there as 47:49.258 --> 47:56.418 an American, but he acclimated quickly. So not too many New Mexicans. We all might freeze 47:56.418 --> 48:01.878 actually, I think, if we lived there. What kind of food and natural resources are available 48:01.878 --> 48:06.686 in Greenland? And does a lot of the resources have to get imported from other countries? 48:07.006 --> 48:13.966 So we always been nature-based or traditional food has always been marine. So it's fisheries 48:13.966 --> 48:20.226 that are huge. It's the main income base. The biggest export to other countries is our fisheries. 48:20.566 --> 48:26.026 So a lot of fishermen are there. Some hunters, traditional hunters are still around, but 48:26.026 --> 48:32.436 they're fewer, a lot fewer now than in the olden days. Most of our import is coming from Scandinavia. 48:32.436 --> 48:39.826 So Denmark is where we get our food, bread, milk, all the dairy, cereals. from Denmark. 48:40.246 --> 48:45.266 How does Greenland's economy operate with such a small population and are there enough people 48:45.266 --> 48:51.686 for things like hospitals and schools? We're too few on the island. A lot of Danes from 48:51.686 --> 48:58.478 Denmark come to work in the hospitals, especially. Before we had our autonomy, the increased autonomy 48:58.478 --> 49:05.538 in Greenland, was 1979, we became a homo government, meaning that we, from being considered a county 49:05.538 --> 49:12.758 in Denmark. So for kids listening, every state might have, you know, a hundred counties. 49:12.758 --> 49:18.278 Albuquerque is in Bernalillo County. You've heard of that. Wherever you're listening listeners, 49:18.298 --> 49:25.574 you also live in a county, but typically a county doesn't have that much power. your state government 49:25.574 --> 49:30.774 is gonna have more money. So, wow, that must have been hard to be Greenland and only be 49:30.774 --> 49:36.914 a county of Denmark, which is pretty far away physically, actually. That was the reason why 49:36.914 --> 49:44.554 everything needed to change because the distance was too enormous and by getting our increased 49:44.554 --> 49:49.954 independence of this autonomy, we created a parliament in Greenland that made our own legal 49:49.954 --> 49:56.742 jurisdiction, meaning laws for our country. Healthcare wise, we still are dependent on 49:56.742 --> 50:04.322 the Danish healthcare workers, but every small town has a clinic of some sort. It's not like 50:04.322 --> 50:09.002 we're not getting healthcare. Well, now is when you get to make all the American parents 50:09.002 --> 50:13.702 jealous. You guys get free healthcare, right? In Greenland, it's just like a right. That 50:13.702 --> 50:19.922 must be nice. We don't even have to pay for medicine or anything. You can give birth, you 50:19.922 --> 50:24.518 know, you don't pay anything. It's free. You've been listening to The Children's Hour. We've 50:24.518 --> 50:28.118 been learning about Greenland. You can learn a lot more in our learning guide with this 50:28.118 --> 50:33.818 episode. can find it at ChildrensHour.org. Look for Greenland. Our guest has been Naja Lund 50:33.818 --> 50:41.118 Aparico. Her book is Seasons by the Lake: Adventures in Greenland. Naja, thank you so much for being 50:41.118 --> 50:46.218 with us on the Children's Hour. We learned so much from you today. Thank you so much for having 50:46.218 --> 50:52.318 me. You guys are amazing. Oh, I love the questions. If you want to learn more about Greenland, 50:52.318 --> 50:59.218 you can find our learning guide at childrenshour.org. Look for Greenland. And at our website, we 50:59.218 --> 51:03.738 always post our full playlist too. So you can see the music that we've been playing, which 51:03.738 --> 51:11.648 is all music from Greenland and almost entirely sung in the Greenlandic language. This is Upernaaq. 51:11.648 --> 51:14.450 It means spring, and this is by Sume. 53:51.598 --> 53:56.918 We've been learning about Greenland today during The Children's Hour, its history and the cultures 53:56.918 --> 54:02.778 of the people who live there. There's a learning guide with this episode. can find it at ChildrensHour.org. 54:02.878 --> 54:08.178 Look for Greenland. We have time for just one more today. This is Sauwestari. We'll catch 54:08.178 --> 54:12.594 you next time for another edition of the Children's Hour. 58:40.750 --> 58:46.270 The Children's Hour is produced by The Children's Hour Incorporated, a New Mexico non-profit. 58:46.310 --> 58:53.330 You can find photos, playlists, learning guides, and activities for every episode at ChildrensHour.org. 58:53.330 --> 58:58.090 This episode of The Children's Hour was written and produced by our interns, Daniel Lentz and 58:58.090 --> 59:03.050 Isaac Lacerda, with production help from Sarah Gabrielli and me, Katie Stone. Chad Scheer recorded 59:03.050 --> 59:07.510 our show at Outpost, and our learning guides are written by Amber Shiel. Find this one 59:07.510 --> 59:13.230 at ChildrensHour.org. Look for Greenland. Find our podcast wherever you listen to podcasts 59:13.230 --> 59:19.950 or go to our patreon.com slash The Children's Hour. Or ask your smart speaker to play The 59:19.950 --> 59:26.210 Children's Hour podcast. 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