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Native America Calling: The concern over rising American imperialism to Indigenous people abroad and at home
Tuesday, January 27, 2026
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The concern over rising American imperialism to Indigenous people abroad and at home
President Donald Trump appears to have backed off his most urgent rhetoric, for now, around acquiring Greenland against the will of nearly every European nation and the vast majority of Americans.

But the threat of a potential takeover of Greenland and other sovereign nations remains, with Trump officials also putting Cuba, Colombia and even Canada and Mexico on notice for what Trump himself refers to as the “Donroe Doctrine,” a reference to the 200-year-old foreign policy asserting America’s dominance in the Western Hemisphere.

The momentum for such imperialistic rhetoric is a reminder of a dark time for Native Americans and other Indigenous peoples potentially in Trump’s path.

Pituffik Space Base
The Pituffik Space Base, formerly known as the Thule Air Base, is a United States Space Force base located on the northwest coast of Greenland. The U.S. signed an agreement with the Kingdom of Denmark to host the facility there, so long as both nations remain members of NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Photo: Paul Honnick / U.S. Space Force

Guests on Native America Calling
Dr. Sara Olsvig (Inuk from Greenland), chair of the Inuit Circumpolar Council, Ph.D in Arctic studies

Andrea Carmen (Yaqui), executive director of the International Indian Treaty Council

Tillie Martinussen, former member of Parliament of Greenland, known as the Inatsisartut in the Greenlandic language.

Malu Rosing, advisor on Arctic and global governance for the International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs

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