Sumé (band)

[1] The band was inspired by American rock, but sang in the Greenlandic language and their lyrics were progressive and critical of the Danish colonial power.

In the song "Nunaqarfiit" they sang "It is time to live again as Inuit and not as Westerners".

The cover of the 1973 record Sumut showed a reproduction of a 19th-century woodcut by Aron of Kangeq depicting an Inuit hunter killing a Norseman.

[2] The band was dissolved in 1977 but they still perform occasionally, and in 1994 they released the record Persersume ("Snowdrift").

[3] 2014 saw the premiere of the movie about the band, its English title was Sumé: the sound of a revolution, directed by Inuk Silis Høegh.

Cover of the album Sumut , depicting a 19th-century woodcut of an Inuit having killed a Norseman