Proposals for the United States to purchase Greenland
Efforts to buy the territory from 1867 to 2019 / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Since 1867, the United States has considered, or made, several proposals to purchase the island of Greenland from Denmark, as it did with the Danish West Indies in 1917. While Greenland remains an autonomous territory within the Kingdom of Denmark, a 1951 treaty gives the United States much control over an island it once partially claimed from exploration.