In the international conversation among world leaders and others around who should own Greenland, one faction seems to have been overlooked, according to Susan Kaplan and Genevieve LeMoine, and that is the people of that country.
Kaplan, professor of anthropology and director of Bowdoin’s Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center, and LeMoine, the museum’s curator, are Arctic anthropologists who have spent their careers understanding the inhabitants of that region.
The two coauthored the article “Greenland’s Inuit Have Spent Decades Fighting for Self-Determination” for The Conversation, which has been picked up by news outlets across the country and around the globe, including the Washington Post’s platform Ripple, Yahoo News, and others.
They write of Kalaallit Nunaat, known in English as Greenland, the world’s largest island and home to 57,000 people across 830,000 square miles—people who have over the years steadily forged a path to independence.
