US EditionHow Trump's 'Piece of Ice' Greenland Remark Echoes History
Trump’s comment reflects a colonial mindset that views lands as assets for acquisition, conflicting with Greenland Inuit's collective land stewardship of over 56,000 residents.
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Despite Trump’s statements, we know that his interests are not in the piece of ice in Greenland. If we look under its surface, what we find is one of the world’s largest rare earth depositsEurope, capital Greenland Greenland has gone from being a hidden region to being in the spotlight of the most surely powerful ruler on the planet. But why Greenland? At first, Donald Trump claimed that his intention was due to national security reasons, becaus…
How Trump's 'piece of Ice' Remark Echoes History
The US president's curt description of Greenland recalls a pattern in which colonial authorities have sometimes classified land as "not used" or "uninhabited," overlooking Indigenous land relations and stewardship. How Trump's 'piece of Ice' Remark Echoes History.
How Trump's 'piece of ice' Greenland remark echoes history
The US president's curt description of Greenland recalls a pattern in which colonial authorities have sometimes classified land as "not used" or "uninhabited," overlooking Indigenous land relations and stewardship.
The United States is not interested in Svalbard in the same way as Greenland, says Donald Trump's Greenland advisor Thomas Emanuel Dans.
‘There’s no such thing as a better coloniser’: Indigenous views on Trump’s Greenland push
Demands by the US that it take control of the Arctic island is for many Inuits a reminder of a troubling imperial past On a bitterly cold recent morning in the Canadian Arctic, about 70 people took to the streets. Braving the bone-chilling winds, they marched through the Inuit-governed territory…
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