Trump’s Greenland threats reopen colonial wounds for Inuit across Arctic

About 70 people marched through Nunavut on a bitterly cold recent morning, waving signs that read: "We stand with Greenland" and "Greenland is a partner, not a purchase", in a protest that reflected Inuit concern over Donald Trump’s threats to Greenland. Donald Trump’s tug-of-war over Greenland recalled "centuries of imperialism by different nation states but also colonisation by different actors", said Natan Obed, president of Canada’s national Inuit organisation, Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami.

He said Inuit have had to preserve their society, culture and self‑determination while others sought different things from their lands. While Trump recently pledged that he would not take Greenland by force, the White House has signalled it remains keen to control the world’s largest island.

Jeff Landry, the US special envoy to Greenland, wrote an op‑ed in the New York Times calling Greenland "one of the world’s most strategically consequential regions"; the piece made no mention of the Indigenous people who have stewarded the land for millennia.

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