Trump on Greenland: "Denmark is very far away. A boat landed there 200 years ago or something and they say they have rights to it. I don't know if that's true. I don't think it is, actually … we really need it for national security … maybe you'll see more and more soldiers go there."
He’s forcing Europe to choose between guarding their front door in Ukraine, or their back door in Canada and Greenland. Taking direction directly from Putin, if there was any doubt.
There are lots of places (usually remote or difficult to access) where settlements came in waves. At least one indigenous tribe in the Pacific Northwest claimed ancestry for an ancient gravesite that anthropologists had shown was from a different settlement wave that long predated the tribe.
The Norse settled Greenland before the Inuit. There were earlier native cultures but they had died out before the Norse arrived.
There are lots of places (usually remote or difficult to access) where settlements came in waves. At least one indigenous tribe in the Pacific Northwest claimed ancestry for an ancient gravesite that anthropologists had shown was from a different settlement wave that long predated the tribe.