“We can’t even buy our own land ourselves, but Trump wants to buy it - that’s so strange to us,” said Kaaleeraq Ringsted, 74, in Kapisillit, a tiny settlement of wooden houses clinging to the shore of a fjord east of the capital, Nuuk.
“Since childhood, I have been used to the idea that you can only rent land. We have always been used to the idea that we collectively own our land.”
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-trump-greenland-inuit/
Greenland, an autonomous Danish territory, does not have private freehold ownership of land.
“In Greenland, you can’t own the land,” Blidorf said. “It’s been like that ever since our ancestors came here. Today you have the right to use the area where you have your house.”
Nearly 90% of Greenland’s 57,000 population are indigenous Inuit, who have inhabited the island continuously for around 1,000 years.
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