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Greenland: not Trumpian, and only partially Danish

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        Greenland is the world's largest island. This northern atlantic island is known as Kalaallit Nunaat to Indigenous Greenlanders, meaning 'land of the Kalaallit'. The Kalaallit are the largest group of the variety of Inuit peoples of Greenland, making up 89% of the Island's population of 57,695. Some may know them as Eskimos partially due to being within the arctic circle. Ethnographically close to other Inuit peoples of the arctic and subarctic regions of Canada, Alaska, and far-eastern Siberia in Russia in which they are a minority, the vast tundra and immense glaciers of Greenland has long been and remains the only nation in which aboriginal culture is paramount.  Folk/ indie singer-songwriter Nive Nielsen: case in point of Greenland's cultural landscape. Wilderness, sub-wilderness, Danish territory and county         Once upon a time, Greenland was empty and deserted. The first people arrived approximately 5,000 years ag...