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FAQ: Greenland Rising's Piseq Contest Using AI to Showcase Kalaallit Resilience
TL;DR
Greenland Rising's Piseq contest offers a unique platform to showcase Kalaallit cultural achievements and gain recognition through the prestigious Angakkoq Prize.
The NGO uses AI tools like ChatGPT and Claude Cowork to create videos of life transitions, then translates contest entries into Kalaallisut for submission to Substack and siku.org.
This initiative preserves and celebrates Kalaallit culture through traditional song-poems, fostering cultural pride and offering a non-violent model for conflict resolution globally.
The contest revives the ancient Kalaallit tradition of poetic duels, where disputes were settled through creative insults rather than violence, with results becoming part of oral history.
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The contest aims to celebrate the character, culture, and toughness of Greenland's Kalaallit people by spotlighting their actual accomplishments, which are currently overshadowed by the machinations of Europe and America.
The NGO Greenland Rising, co-founded by Ivalu Kajussen and John Toomey, is organizing it to highlight Kalaallit resilience and culture during a year of significant shifts for Greenland in 2026.
Contestants write 2-3 sentences expressing the emotional essence of videos showing native life transitions; Greenland Rising uses AI to translate these into Kalaallisut and format them as Piseqs, then posts them in both languages on Substack and siku.org.
The group uses ChatGPT, Vibe, Pond5, Gemini, and Claude Cowork to create videos of native life transitions and assist with translating and formatting submissions as Piseqs.
Videos show native peoples going through birth, wedding, return from fishing, Mitaartut (Greenland's 'Halloween'), funeral, tribal conclave around a campfire, Meeting of the Elders, or Arctic Palerfik (dogsled race).
Historically, powerful piseqs emerged from song-poem 'duels' where disputes were resolved non-violently through poetic stand-offs, with the loser determined by who lost composure first, and results had permanent legal standing in tribal tradition.
Winners are honored with the Angakkoq Prize, named after the Kalaallit word for Shaman, following evaluation by judges.
For more information, see Collections of Ammassalik Songs by Knud Rassmussen, Greenlandic Oral Traditions: Collection, Reframing, and Reinvention by Kirsten Thisted, and Inuit: the Story of the Inuit Circumpolar Conference by Aqqaluk Lynge.
Submissions are posted in both Kalaallisut and English to Greenland Rising's Substack (https://theheroaward.substack.com/p/helping-greenland-and-you-too) and to siku.org, the indigenous website for Inuit in Greenland, Canada, and the U.S.
Greenland Rising would like to see Europe and the U.S. solve their disagreements through non-violent poetic duels like the traditional Kalaallit piseq contests, promoting peaceful conflict resolution.
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