1865, Henry David Thoreau, Cape Cod, Chapter IV. "The Beach", page 54.
Were it not for this, we Europeans should have no wood to burn there, and the poor Greenlanders[…] would, however, have no wood to roof their houses, to erect their tents, as also to build their boats, and to shaft their arrows.
2019 August 22, Matthew H. Birkhold, “A Brief History of the Indignities Heaped Upon Greenland”, in The New York Times[1], archived from the original on 16 July 2020:
In a recent poll conducted by the Universities of Greenland and Copenhagen, more than two-thirds of Greenlanders expressed a desire for their country to become independent, most of them within 20 years.
