Nanook - "Nanook"

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This song “Nanook” is performed by the Greenlandic band Nanook. It is concerned with the polar bear and how climate change is affecting this animal’s ways of life. But climate change does not just affect the polar bear, it also affects humanity and especially the people living in the Arctic who witness climate change on an everyday basis. Because of how climate change has resulted in uncertainties and threats to the ways of life of both animals and humans in the Arctic, the band Nanook has used the polar bear as their symbol since the earliest days. The band’s commitment to this animal as a symbol of both the power and fragility of nature, culture and life per se, is also present in the name of the band ´Nanook’ – which means ‘the greatest of all polar bears’, and is the name of a polar bear God in Inuit mythology.

Lyrics:
Tune in on the trail of the polar bear, and see all the cracks
it’s track, it’s path worn out
Nanook, Nanook has strayed

See the powerful polar bear

The beautiful and ever-changing drift ice
Fends off and summons, and is often missed

See the powerful polar bear

And I realize how powerful the Kalaallit people are

Lyrics by Christian Elsner & Frederik Elsner

Video:
Story by Nanook
Filmed by Ulannaq Ingemann (Polarbear footage: Nordicphoto/Shutterstock/Henry Harrison)
Directed by Ulannaq Ingemann, Andreas Otte and Nanook
Edited & Special effects by Marc Fussing Rosbach
Actor: Ujarneq Fleischer