'No such thing as a better colonizer': Inuit emphatically reject U.S. takeover of Greenland

U.S. President Donald Trump says his country needs Greenland for national security. That has Greenlanders worried about their own national security.

Inuit advocacy groups, as well as Greenlanders who live in Canada, are emphatically opposed to American designs on their homeland. And, they say, they're tired of being used as geopolitical chess pieces by powerful people in faraway capitals.

"We want to say loud and clear that there's no such thing as a better colonizer," said Sara Olsvig, chair of the Inuit Circumpolar Council and a former member of both the Greenlandic and Danish parliaments.

"We have already been through colonization and we know what it means when the interests of others and more powerful nations and peoples affects us negatively and when decisions are taken thousands of kilometres away from us."