Aki-Matilda Høegh-Dam gives seven-minute speech in native Inuit language and refuses to repeat in Danish
A Greenlandic MP has refused to speak Danish during a debate in the Danish parliament in Copenhagen and instead spoke in her native Inuit language, frustrating uncomprehending lawmakers and highlighting strained relations between Denmark andAki-Matilda Høegh-Dam,
one of two members of the Danish parliament representing Greenland, gave a nearly seven-minute speech in Greenlandic during a debate on Friday about relations between the two countries.Greenland, a Danish colony until 1953, when it became a formal part of the Kingdom of
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