entity Updated 2026-07-24 Tags: People, Arctic, Greenland, Indigenous

Inuit

The Inuit appear in How to get what Greenland has, with permission through the episode’s description of Greenland as about 90 percent Indigenous Inuit. The source links that demographic reality to the political problem of outsiders discussing Greenland as if it were empty land or a resource package.

The episode also connects Inuit land norms to Greenland’s land system. It says people in Greenland may receive permission to build but do not own the land underneath, and it frames that system through the idea that land is not for sale but shared.

In the source, this matters for Strategic Access Without Annexation. Greenlandic cooperation, trade, and defense arrangements have to be understood through local agency and permission rather than an outside state’s desire to buy, own, or control land.

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