Abstract
One of the main reasons behind the desire of elite Greenlanders to enter the Danish Commonwealth was to improve the quality of life and obtain equality between Danes and Greenlanders - especially in wages, where the difference was 25. This chapter traces the effect of writing and the ontological status of the hunter in a more contemporary setting, namely, Heart of Light, in order to problematise this process in a broader global context. It focuses on how the national Greenlandic and the supranational Inuit identities interact, and how the global context frames indigenous people and certain understandings of 'authenticity'. The author chooses Heart of Light because the conditions of its production rest on class differences, racial politics, and educational opportunities cemented by colonialism. In Heart of Light, the hunter remains framed by the discourses of the catechist colleges and their producti.Keywords: catechist colleges; colonialism; Greenlanders; Heart of Light
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