When the US Government says that the United States had boats on Greenland 500 years ago and therefore has dibs on Greenland, the US is not only saying extremely strange things, but reveals that the US views Greenland as belonging to Denmark colonizers rather than the 80% Indigenous people and 20% non-Indigenous people of Greenland.
That is, at no time does the US Government recognize the rights of the people who occupied Greenland before Colonization in 1721. The US views Greenland as a region that can be owned by Denmark or the US, but never by the people of Greenland.
The US Government believes that the United States was a country 500 years ago ... with boats traveling to Greenland. Abnormal.
"Trump: “The fact that they had
a boat land there 500 years ago doesn’t mean that they own the land. I’m sure we had lots of boats go there also.”
NUUK, Greenland (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump has made an American takeover of Greenland a focus of his second term in the White House, calling it a national security priority while repeating false claims about the strategic Arctic island. In recent comments, he has floated using military...
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The first humans arrived in northern Greenland circa 2,500 B.C., traveling from what is now Canada after the narrow strait separating the island from North America froze over. The Norse explorer Erik the Red arrived circa A.D. 985 with a fleet of Viking ships, according to the medieval Icelandic sagas."
"The
Greenlanders are mainly descendants of the Inuit of the Thule culture that entered Northern Greenland from Canada around the 12th century. At that time, the Norse had lived in the southern part of the island since 985 CE; they stayed in Greenland until approximately 1450 CE. However, since the 16th century, thousands of Europeans from various countries either visited or moved to Greenland, and there has been substantial gene flow from Europe into the Greenlandic population.
This European contact with Greenland can be divided into three time periods: pre-colonial; colonial; and post-colonial. Pre-colonial contact was initially limited to exploration and trade, such as when a search for the Northwest Passage led English explorers to Greenland in the 1500s. From the early 18th century, European whaling efforts off the west coast of Greenland brought whalers into contact with the Greenlandic Inuit.
Initially, it was the Dutch who dominated European whaling, but in the latter half of the century, the whalers were also German, primarily Frisian, British, and Danish-Norwegian. In 1721, the arrival of the Danish-Norwegian missionary priest Hans Egede marked the beginning of the colonial period, leading to a new and more permanent type of contact between Greenlandic Inuit and Europeans, although whaling was still a primary draw, with, e.g., 107 Dutch ships that year."
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