Norwegian author Mette Newth addresses issues of colonialism in relation to the Inuit of Greenland in two of her three young adult novels available in translation in the United States. In The Abduction (1993), Newth writes about the kidnapping of two young Inuit from Greenland to Norway in the seventeenth century. In The Transformation (2000), Navarana, a young Inuit woman, saves the life of Brendan, one of the monks sent by the Holy Church in the fifteenth century on an expedition to rescue the remnants of the Christian community in Greenland. Beginning with Erik the Red’s voyages to early Norse settlements in Greenland in the ninth century, the island became increasingly important to European trading, missionary, and exploratory expeditions. 1 From about 1260, when the Norse communities began paying taxes to the King of Norway, Greenland was considered a part of the territory of the Danish-Norwegian kingdom, which lasted from 1380 to 1814 (Petersen). The early colonization of Greenland was built around its importance as a trading center. The town of Bergen was a particularly important trade center for the valued commodities of walrus hide and ivory, sealskins, and narwhal tusks (Arneborg 304). Writing about the experience of colonialism from the perspective of Greenlanders, Robert Petersen points out that in contrast to examples of colonialism that are associated with military power, “military power was never used against Greenlanders, not even in the beginning.” The Danes in the 1720s “used the term ‘colony’ as synonymous with mission and trade station” (Petersen). Greenland, argues Petersen, did not have a “real history of oppression by force” that is associated with imperialism and colonization in other places. Nevertheless, Greenland was regarded as an “inherited depen