Is Kalaallit Nunaat for Its People? Inuit Reflections on American (and Danish) Colonization – Yellowhead Institute

January 29, 2026

KALAALLIIT NUNAAT, so-called Greenland, is at the centre of geo-political news today. Amid renewed American imperialism and fraying international alliances, there is much discussion of NATO, the European Union, Denmark, Russia, and China – politics revolving around states.

Where are the voices of Kalaallit? Once again, in the realm of international politics, Indigenous People are an afterthought, sidelined, or our voices caught in a colonial narrative. Kalaallit Nunaat is Inuit land. Despite Danish colonization, it remains so.

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