01-17-2026, 07:08 PM
(01-17-2026, 01:57 PM)Oldcarpy2 Wrote: Any evidence that the people of Greenland want to separate from Denmark? The protests seem to contradict your unfounded assertion.
Exclusive | Greenlanders speak out against Danish rule: 'They stole our future’ | New York Post
Quote:Greenlanders interviewed by The Post said they are not ready to swap Denmark for US ownership, as Trump has prioritized; they want independence after years of what some described as generations of trauma, displacement and economic exploitation that still shape daily life across the island.
“People say ‘Greenland is for Greenlanders,’” Petersen said. “But that’s not reality. Denmark speaks for us. Denmark decides. They don’t let us speak.”
That imbalance was visible recently in Washington, where the Danish foreign minister dominated nearly the entire press conference following talks with US officials on purchasing the island, while the Greenlandic foreign minister was largely sidelined.
One of the biggest issue Greenlanders seem to have about becoming American is that the EU has painted the US and being a territory of the US as being nothing more than a colony just like what the EU does. The truth is completely different, in the as a US territory they would still hold control over their lives like what Puerto Rico or Guam does, but if they have a need or issue they can be fast tracked by the US for help, the benefits are even better if they choose to go the route of statehood in the US. The EU doesn't like for them to know these facts about being on the side of the US.
Oh you're going to ask what is going on here, well that goes back for years and is the topic of the article.
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NUUK, Greenland — Native Greenlander Amarok Petersen was 27 years old when she learned the gut-wrenching truth about why she couldn’t have children — and that Denmark was to blame.
Suffering from severe uterine problems, a medical doctor discovered an IUD birth control device in her body that she didn’t know she had.
Danish doctors had implanted it when she was just 13 as part of a population control program for thousands of native Greenlandic girls and women.
“I will never have children,” Petersen told The Post, with tears of anger and sorrow welling in her eyes. “That choice was taken from me.”
While the government of Denmark officially apologized last year for decades of forced sterilization of Indigenous women and girls, the horrific mistreatment has cast a long shadow on the island that has become the center of an international ownership fight.
EDITED BY ME FOR CONTENT“The Danes don’t see us as humans,” Petersen said at a local Inuit restaurant overlooking Nuuk’s famous fjords. “They think we’re too expensive, too small a population. But they take our land, our children, our lives and expect thanks.”
Even in adulthood, medical decisions were made without Petersen’s consent. Plagued with problems after the IUD, she had repeated surgeries for unexplained pain. It wasn’t until years later that doctors informed her that her fallopian tubes had been removed in one of the operations in the early 2000s.
Her family also suffered under Denmark’s so-called “Little Danes experiment,” in which Greenlandic children were forcibly sent to Denmark for adoption or institutional care — often permanently separated from their families, she said.
The program, which ran from the 1950s through the 1970s, was part of Denmark’s broader effort to assimilate Greenlandic children, often without parental consent.
It happened to her mother’s brother, Petersen said. Other relatives were subjected to medical experimentation, she added.
“They wanted us smaller,” she said. “Easier to manage.”
Does that help?
