{"id":15349,"date":"2026-02-09T09:30:29","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T09:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/guardians-of-the-arctic\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T09:30:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T09:30:29","slug":"guardians-of-the-arctic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/guardians-of-the-arctic\/","title":{"rendered":"Guardians of the Arctic"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure class=\"image\"><figcaption>\n   The Aurora Borealis, also known as the &ldquo;northern lights&rdquo;, illuminates the sky over houses in Kapisillit, Greenland, on Jan 20. REUTERS<br>\n <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>United States President Donald Trump discusses Greenland as a strategic asset that could be acquired by Washington, while Denmark asserts its legal sovereignty over the island. However, for the Inuit people, who have lived here for centuries, no &zwj; &zwj;one owns the Arctic land.<\/p>\n<p>The concept that ownership is shared collectively is central to the Inuit identity, they say. It has survived 300 years of colonization and is written into law: People can own houses, but not the land beneath them.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We can&rsquo;t even buy our own land ourselves, but Trump wants to buy it &mdash; that&rsquo;s so strange to us,&rdquo; said Kaaleeraq &zwj; &zwj;Ringsted, 74, in Kapisillit, a tiny settlement of wooden houses clinging to the shore of a fjord east of the capital, Nuuk.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Since childhood, I have been used to the idea that you can only rent land. We have always been used to the idea that we collectively own our land.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub>Guardians of the Arctic<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Aurora Borealis, also known as the &ldquo;northern lights&rdquo;, illuminates the sky over houses in Kapisillit, Greenland, on Jan 20. REUTERS United States President Donald Trump discusses Greenland as a strategic asset that could be acquired by Washington, while Denmark asserts its legal sovereignty over the island. However, for the Inuit people, who have lived&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/guardians-of-the-arctic\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Guardians of the Arctic&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15350,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}