Kalaallit Nunaat, more commonly known as Greenland, has always belonged to the Inuit. Its history, however, is often told by outsiders – Vikings, missionaries and colonial powers. For millennia before Viking explorer Erik the Red set foot on its shores in AD983, Greenland has been home to Inuit communities who, unlike the Norsemen, thrived in its vast and harsh landscape.
Today, as Donald Trump pushes his proposal for the United States to assume control of Greenland from Denmark for reasons of ‘international and economic security’, the question of who this land belongs to is more pressing than ever. His remarks have rekindled decades-long debates in Greenland about decolonization and independence.
