The people of Greenland, the Inuit, the people of the farthest north, are famously quiet. At church, you can barely hear them when they sing. In conversation, you have to lean in. This doesn’t mean they are passive.

Denmark's foreign minister said that no country should be able to simply help themselves to another country Greenland's prime minister said Tuesday the Danish autonomous territory wanted to stake out its own future and did not want to become American,

The prime minister said that while Greenlanders do not want to become Americans, “the reality is we are going to work with the U.S. — yesterday, today and tomorrow.”