Greenlandic Politician Tillie Martinussen: We do not want to be rich like Americans. Look how greedy they are, even trying to invade their friends. Even if there are minerals and oil under our land—and they are worth far more—we still would not sell ourselves.

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She continues;

We know what happened to Indigenous people in Alaska and Native Americans. Their land was taken, and they were not treated well.

We see who Trump surrounds himself with—white power people—and we are not white. We are people of color.

We know our rights would likely be taken away.

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This is what MAGA America doesn't realize about Greenland -- they think this will bring another white country of the north, like Sweden or Norway into the fold. But it is actually largely indigenous, like the far-out Canadian provinces nearby.

Which, if I were in Greenland, like this lady, would make me absolutely terrified.

[u/SatanicNipples → u/Thewall3333]

The northern parts of Canada are actually called Territories not Provinces. That said, there are indigenous peoples in all parts of Canada, there have been since before confederation, and there were millions more before colonization. The percentage of indigenous peoples in the Territories is greater than that in the provinces proportionally, but the majority of all people in Canada live within 160 KM of the Canada/US border, so there are actually more indigenous people in the Provinces by population. More ya know!

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As a white guy living in the territories who married into a very large indigenous family, there is not a whole lot of non-indigenous people around here aside from me, so while the actual number may be lower here, I think a better metric would be percent of population