Readily Self-Presenting Issue: Squalid Water for Native Americans Concurrent Eye on Greenland
January 9, 2026
For those of us that have been following the squalid water chronic misfortune situation, as it relates to Native Americans, actually to everyone, it does not take longer than 5 seconds to ascertain and exhale a one sentence summary of the sense of an issue right through here.
For those that have erudition of how indigenous, or for brief words for illustration, the analog to Natives in the USA, the indigenous of Greenland, plus the Native squalid water story, it takes about 3 seconds to have the main idea of the salient worry understood; or less.
Greenland has a rich history, just like numerous other nations, lands, and locations. In the history, are ups, downs, round and rounds in social constructs, and developments in the course of history which may have seemed like strategies that were sound to facilitate, perhaps by those that were on the upper end of the stick, typically a conquering party, but perceived later as equality measures enlarge, as the not as kind as it once seemed when you were the victim sort. For example, forced sterilization of indigenous people, in staggering numbers.
Knowing and understanding dimensions of history can always help.
Now the part about the US being in 'possession of' Greenland, or the prospect of.
For one big country to take over another, may not be an overnight process.
International relations may be different now than it was in the times of horse and cart, bows and arrows, soldiers lined up in battlefield with school aged boys as drummers, standing in the way of cannon fire. The computer age (is here) and more may be coming.
There may be nothing wrong with relations with Greenland, especially if done ethically.
What if the folks at Greenland say yes, we will roll?
Quickly, here is a sequence of sentences that may affect the view of some prospects of USA Greenland relations when the Native American squalid water situation is still present:
Before 1776, at least a century before, explorers, such as Dutch enterprises, pursued areas such as Manhattan.
The USA was not geopolitically entirely here yet.
Dutch and English fought with not just each other over lands, but also Natives. Now at the same time, there were numerous cooperative efforts.
In the southern part of the US, Natives were known to have engaged with explorers such as the French for an estimated centuries, for trades such as fur.
After 1776, the Revolutionary War, wherein Natives were involved, there were a number of Native involved strife in the region, such as Métis fighting. Eventually developments like the Trail of Tears evolved.
Fast forward, the squalid water situation.
Trail of Tears years were about 20 or so years before the Civil War.
Native Americans fought in the Civil War.
As evident so as not to reiterate, where we are today, in terms of steps in the developments, had Natives involved in pretty much each.
The real story told, not oversimplified text books for babies ranting about teepees and tomahawks.
In more recent decades, America emerged as 'Mr Rescue' for the rest of the world, in many ways. The 'police officer of the world'.
A haphazardly put together theory may be held by some as a notion, or the propaganda may be out there in the air of the same, whether consciously internalized or not, that in order for America to be that Mr Rescue and Mr police, it involved suppression of Natives as a necessity.
Obviously, with the information in the above paragraphs, that premise is not exactly accurate. It just could not have happened.
While the squalid water situation was ongoing, the following has occurred:
One of the saving graces to this whole matter is the recently introduced bill in 2025, the "Tribal Access to Clean Water Act of 2025" (H.R.4377 and S.2272). As of the second week of January 2026, it is just over a a dozen pages and at early stages, aspects may be compared relative to other bills, such as quantity of words, details, edits, revisions, etc.
The pith of an issue is, what do toddlers and children ages 9 and below, still going through the cycle of having squalid water as their recourse for water, since at least about 1835, have to do with a process of maintaining the American government being established firmly, and being police officers of the world, if they wish to fill those shoes as doable? This while outside the geographic regions of the US, the US runs rescue missions to get folks out the situation Natives in our landmass are going through. Proximity and familiarity breeding contempt and abandonment, on the very thin borderline, seems to be what took root.
Without having fully mitigated the squalid water situation, is a proposition of taking on Greenland, given considerations like Greenland's sheer size, with all of its history, including woes of the indigenous, without any questions? The prospect of being able to bandage and heal it all, hurt on indigenous and Natives et al, and equality or lack of, pertaining to a wide range of ethnicities, in the Continental US, Alaska and Hawaii, might be doable in a mighty burst; however, on a practical level based on what has been witnessed over the past 10 years, it might seem a crisper fair balance of scales, to make sure that Natives here, in the Continental US, Hawaii, and Alaska, at least have clean water, regardless of the multitudes of pursuits.
These are not all the issues, nor is this a highly crafted thesis paper, there is no bias, no for or against any policy; as the saying goes, just saying.
For those that have erudition of how indigenous, or for brief words for illustration, the analog to Natives in the USA, the indigenous of Greenland, plus the Native squalid water story, it takes about 3 seconds to have the main idea of the salient worry understood; or less.
Greenland has a rich history, just like numerous other nations, lands, and locations. In the history, are ups, downs, round and rounds in social constructs, and developments in the course of history which may have seemed like strategies that were sound to facilitate, perhaps by those that were on the upper end of the stick, typically a conquering party, but perceived later as equality measures enlarge, as the not as kind as it once seemed when you were the victim sort. For example, forced sterilization of indigenous people, in staggering numbers.
Knowing and understanding dimensions of history can always help.
Now the part about the US being in 'possession of' Greenland, or the prospect of.
For one big country to take over another, may not be an overnight process.
International relations may be different now than it was in the times of horse and cart, bows and arrows, soldiers lined up in battlefield with school aged boys as drummers, standing in the way of cannon fire. The computer age (is here) and more may be coming.
There may be nothing wrong with relations with Greenland, especially if done ethically.
What if the folks at Greenland say yes, we will roll?
Quickly, here is a sequence of sentences that may affect the view of some prospects of USA Greenland relations when the Native American squalid water situation is still present:
Before 1776, at least a century before, explorers, such as Dutch enterprises, pursued areas such as Manhattan.
The USA was not geopolitically entirely here yet.
Dutch and English fought with not just each other over lands, but also Natives. Now at the same time, there were numerous cooperative efforts.
In the southern part of the US, Natives were known to have engaged with explorers such as the French for an estimated centuries, for trades such as fur.
After 1776, the Revolutionary War, wherein Natives were involved, there were a number of Native involved strife in the region, such as Métis fighting. Eventually developments like the Trail of Tears evolved.
Fast forward, the squalid water situation.
Trail of Tears years were about 20 or so years before the Civil War.
Native Americans fought in the Civil War.
As evident so as not to reiterate, where we are today, in terms of steps in the developments, had Natives involved in pretty much each.
The real story told, not oversimplified text books for babies ranting about teepees and tomahawks.
In more recent decades, America emerged as 'Mr Rescue' for the rest of the world, in many ways. The 'police officer of the world'.
A haphazardly put together theory may be held by some as a notion, or the propaganda may be out there in the air of the same, whether consciously internalized or not, that in order for America to be that Mr Rescue and Mr police, it involved suppression of Natives as a necessity.
Obviously, with the information in the above paragraphs, that premise is not exactly accurate. It just could not have happened.
While the squalid water situation was ongoing, the following has occurred:
- The US assisted freedom fighters in Afghanistan, reference late 1970s.
- -Some of the regions by the way, that Natives, American Indians, and those from earlier times that preceded European voyages to the Americas, such prior to 1300 AD, may be from lands that extend as far westward, if not from present day India per se, on out towards there. (Which tribes etc. will not be gone into here.)
- The US went to the Middle East in the 'rescue of Kuwait' from the Saddam Hussein regime of Iraq; in brief words; we know it was more involved than that.
- That US has been involved with the rebuilding of Iraq later.
- Haiti markedly several times in the past 40 years, including Operation Uphold Democracy in the 1990s, in 2010 and after Hurricane Matthew about 6 years later.
- Operation Unified Assistance, shortly after year 2000, related to Indonesia, Sumatra, and Thailand.
- There are folks in the region, just like Native Americans in America, that have been there for an extremely long time, take Mentawai, Suku Anak Dalam, and Toba Batak.
- Were there travels from these folks to America and some of them are in America today?, maybe a question with more complexity to answer, but plausibly not to be totally ruled out.
- Other rescue missions point to aid in Bangladesh after flooding, and more than a few spots in Africa.
One of the saving graces to this whole matter is the recently introduced bill in 2025, the "Tribal Access to Clean Water Act of 2025" (H.R.4377 and S.2272). As of the second week of January 2026, it is just over a a dozen pages and at early stages, aspects may be compared relative to other bills, such as quantity of words, details, edits, revisions, etc.
The pith of an issue is, what do toddlers and children ages 9 and below, still going through the cycle of having squalid water as their recourse for water, since at least about 1835, have to do with a process of maintaining the American government being established firmly, and being police officers of the world, if they wish to fill those shoes as doable? This while outside the geographic regions of the US, the US runs rescue missions to get folks out the situation Natives in our landmass are going through. Proximity and familiarity breeding contempt and abandonment, on the very thin borderline, seems to be what took root.
Without having fully mitigated the squalid water situation, is a proposition of taking on Greenland, given considerations like Greenland's sheer size, with all of its history, including woes of the indigenous, without any questions? The prospect of being able to bandage and heal it all, hurt on indigenous and Natives et al, and equality or lack of, pertaining to a wide range of ethnicities, in the Continental US, Alaska and Hawaii, might be doable in a mighty burst; however, on a practical level based on what has been witnessed over the past 10 years, it might seem a crisper fair balance of scales, to make sure that Natives here, in the Continental US, Hawaii, and Alaska, at least have clean water, regardless of the multitudes of pursuits.
These are not all the issues, nor is this a highly crafted thesis paper, there is no bias, no for or against any policy; as the saying goes, just saying.
Posted by HCN.
