"The people of Greenland do not want to become American," Mia Chemnitz tells the BBC. "We are not for sale."
The 32-year-old business owner in the Greenlandic capital Nuuk reflects the sentiments of many who spoke to the BBC about how they felt about recent rhetoric from the Trump administration.
The White House has said it was "actively" discussing an offer to buy the territory that has for centuries belonged to Denmark. US President Donald Trump and his officials had earlier intimated a willingness to take it by force if necessary.
This has been met with nervousness and opprobrium among Greenlanders - both on the world's largest island and elsewhere.
This nervousness has only grown since the US took Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro from his residence in Caracas to New York on drug-trafficking and narco-terrorism charges in an unprecedented military move.
