For Greenland’s Inuit, the indigenous population, the Arctic land is not owned by any one state or individual, but shared collectively, a principle they say is being ignored as geopolitical interest in the island intensifies.
Nearly 90 per cent of Greenland’s population of about 57,000 are indigenous Inuit, who have lived on the island continuously for around 1,000 years. The community includes the Kalaallit of West Greenland, the Tunumi of the east and the Inughuit of the north, spread across an Arctic landmass of roughly 830,000 square miles.
