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Greenland’s Inuit have spent decades fighting for self-determination

  • Written by Susan A. Kaplan, Professor of Anthropology, Director of Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center, Bowdoin College
Greenland’s Inuit have spent decades fighting for self-determinationPeople walk along a street in Nuuk, the capital of Greenland.Ina Fassbender/AFP via Getty Images

Amid the discussion between U.S. President Donald Trump and Danish and European leaders about who should own Greenland, the Inuit who live there and call it home aren’t getting much attention.

The Kalaallit (Inuit of West Greenland), the Tunumi...

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