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Building on recent research on memory studies in the Arctic, this chapter examines connections between memory cultures and Indigenous agency. It investigates how Indigenous historicity and narrative sovereignty relate to Nordic colonialism in the Arctic by focusing on the memoirs of Suersaq (Hans He… Building on recent research on memory studies in the Arctic, this chapter examines connections between memory cultures and Indigenous agency. It investigates how Indigenous historicity and narrative sovereignty relate to Nordic colonialism in the Arctic by focusing on the memoirs of Suersaq (Hans Hendrik), a Kalaaleq (Greenlandic Inuit). Through this case study, the chapter explores how Indigenous perspectives relate to the colonial archive and how Greenlandic Inuit maintain narrative sovereignty through collective and public memory praxis. While broadening the canon of Nordic colonial memory (and forgetting), this chapter also invites a critical examination of historical memory as part of the coloniality of knowledge. Læs mere