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Hans Egede (1686–1758), Lutheran missionary, credited with revitalising Denmark's relationship with Greenland. Being part of the Kingdom of Denmark, the foreign relations of Greenland are handled in cooperation between the government of Denmark and the government of Greenland. Unlike Denmark proper, Greenland is not part of the European Union ...
Prior to and during the period of the legal fatherlessness laws, Denmark was the colonial ruler of Greenland. [1] Throughout its rule, Denmark instituted a system racially segregating Danish society from Greenlandic society, including laws prohibiting miscegenation and certain kinds of relationships between Danish men and Greenlandic Inuit women. [1]
[22] 22 Greenlandic children were taken to Denmark where they spent one year with foster families in Denmark. [23] Unbeknownst to the parents in Greenland, on return the children would live in orphanages, not with their families and were only allowed infrequent visits. [23] Six of the children were adopted by their Danish host families. [23]
Many Greenlandic children grew up in boarding schools in southern Denmark, and a number lost their cultural ties to Greenland. While the policies "succeeded" in the sense of shifting Greenlanders from being primarily subsistence hunters into being urbanised wage earners, the Greenlandic elite began to reassert a Greenlandic cultural identity.
Denmark, for whom Greenland is an autonomous crown dependency, has protested it’s not for sale. Officials in Greenland, meanwhile, have sought to assert the territory’s right to independence.
Denmark and the U.S. aren’t the only countries that retain a interest in the strategically and economically important Arctic region. A spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin, Dmitry ...
The practice of forced sterilization and the widespread use of intrauterine devices (IUDs) on Greenlandic Inuit women and girls during the 1960s and 1970s is a controversial chapter in the history of Denmark and Greenland. As part of a population control policy, roughly half of all fertile Greenlandic Inuit women and girls were fitted with IUDs ...
President-elect Donald Trump’s renewed desire to acquire Greenland, by force if necessary, has created much ado in Denmark, Greenland and NATO Europe. Both Denmark, which provides for Greenland ...