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

January 19, 2026

By Chris Windeyer – CBC News

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.

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

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