ABSTRACT
Greenland has for decades worked towards enhanced independent agency in international politics. The renewed global interest in the Arctic has given new impetus to a strategy of diversifying its dependency relations as a way to post-coloniality. This chapter introduces the central members of the cast of characters in the most important narratives, which Greenland is telling about itself, and place each character in historical perspective. Narratives about indigenous identity combines – and clashes – with narratives of modernisation in different ways when Greenland relates to Inuit kinsmen, Nordic siblings, the UN, the USA, the EU, and Asian powers.
