内容摘要：Public school pupils are seen inside their classrooms next to the large icebergs in the city of Ilulissat, Greenland, Feb. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Public school pupils are seen inside their classrooms next to the large icebergs in the city of Ilulissat, Greenland, Feb. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Bilo Chemnitz, 23, holds his rifle after hunting ptarmigan birds near the Nuuk fjord in Greenland, Feb. 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)Bilo Chemnitz, 23, holds his rifle after hunting ptarmigan birds near the Nuuk fjord in Greenland, Feb. 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

You’ll hear this declared all over the land,and university students in Nuuk, the world’s northernmost capital, to hunters and fishermen in sparsely populated villages across the planet’s largest island. This is, after all, Kalaallit Nunaat — Greenlandic for the “Land of the People” or the “Land of the Greenlanders.”Most of those 57,000 Greenlanders are Indigenous Inuit. They take pride in a culture and traditions that have helped them survive for centuries in exceptionally rugged conditions. In their close link to nature. In belonging to one of the most beautiful, remote, untouched places on Earth.

Many in this semi-autonomous territory are worried and offended byof their mineral-rich homeland, even by force, because he says the U.S. needs it “for national security.”

Greenlanders, after President Trump’s remarks about acquiring their homeland, are seeing unprecedented interest in independence from Denmark ahead of a March 11 election. (AP Video: James Brooks, Emilio Morenatti, Luis Andres Henao)

“How can a few words … change the whole world?” asked Aqqaluk Lynge, a former president of the Inuit Circumpolar Council and founder of the Inuit Ataqatigiit party, which governs Greenland. “It can because he’s playing with fire. We’re seeing another United States here with whole new ideas and wishes.”“They’re like, ‘Hey let’s drop our kid off and go on vacation for a week.’ Or kid’s graduating, let’s get them through college and go on vacation,’” said McBirnie, who owns a pizza place in town. “They really bring a huge economic impact to this town.”

Yellowstone suffered a one-two punch betweenin 2022 that cut off access to parts of the park for months.

Tourism rebounded with 4.7 million visitors last year, Yellowstone’s second-busiest on record.Winding roads and natural distractions help fuel numerous accidents in and around the park.