Indigenous Affairs 3-4/08 64 SELF-RULE IN GREENLAND TOWARDs THE WORLD’s fIRsT InDEPEnDEnT InUIT sTATE?
of the electorate of the world’s largest island voted in favour of greater autonomy. Greenlanders, who became the first population of Inuit origin to achieve a degree of self-government when Denmark granted them Home Rule in 1979, have given their political leaders a mandate for significant and far-...
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| Summary: | of the electorate of the world’s largest island voted in favour of greater autonomy. Greenlanders, who became the first population of Inuit origin to achieve a degree of self-government when Denmark granted them Home Rule in 1979, have given their political leaders a mandate for significant and far-reaching change. There are many in the Home Rule government who dream that this historic vote will see Greenland move from being a semi-autonomous territory to an independent state within a generation – Greenland’s Premier Hans Enoksen has expressed a desire for in-dependence in 2021, a date marking three hundred years since Danish colonization. The realities of self-rule leave others – particularly those critical that the referendum was too early in Greenland’s recent po- |
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