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The Inuit Children Experiment
Helen Thiesen, one of the children taken from their families in Greenland in 1951 and sent to live with foster parents in Denmark, looks back on the experience.
In 1951 22 Inuit children from Greenland were taken from their families and sent to live with foster parents in Denmark. It was part of a social experiment aimed at improving the lot of the indigenous people of Greenland but for the children concerned it was a confusing and often traumatic experience. Helen Thiesen was one of those children.
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09:30
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