Recentering the Debate Over ‘Greenland’ Begins With Calling Kalaallit Nunaat by Its Actual Name
Recentering the Debate Over ‘Greenland’ Begins With Calling Kalaallit Nunaat by Its Actual Name
Recentering the Debate Over ‘Greenland’ Begins With Calling Kalaallit Nunaat by Its Actual Name
Kalaallit Nunaat is the name of the country that Donald Trump is salivating over, according to the people who live there. The place that US media call Greenland is an autonomous region of the Kingdom of Denmark, with the right to secede by holding a referendum.
In a rare example of treating the Inuit of Kalaallit Nunaat as real people rather than pieces in a board game, the New York Times (1/14/26) sent two reporters to the island’s capital of Nuuk to ask them what they thought. The Times‘ Jeffrey Gettleman and Maya Tekeli found next to no interest in becoming part of the United States; sources told them they were well aware of the United States’ record of mistreating its Indigenous residents, and further that they had little interest in trading Danish socialized medicine for America’s profit-based healthcare. “We’re not stupid,” the article summed up the Inuit’s message to Trump.
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