Abstract
Today, Greenland seems to be at a crossroads as it aims to find the best way to balance (external) self-determination, economic development, Indigenous rights, and strategic interests in the Arctic region. For Greenlanders, “autonomy” is not merely a legal-political concept but a lived experience, a continuum, a response to a long history of dispossession, discrimination, assimilation, and exclusion. It is no wonder that when US President Donald Trump claims "complete and total control of Greenland", most Greenlanders would respond: tulukkat qaqortippata. It is a Greenlandic expression that translates to "when the ravens turn white".