Public discourse in Denmark remains committed to the narrative of colonial benevolence, in which Danish presence in Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland) is remembered primarily through care, development, and economic generosity. The story of orsugiak – renamed ‘cryolite’ by Danish geologists – unsettles this narrative. Regarded as Greenland’s ‘white gold’, cryolite became essential to global aluminium production and was mined intensively by Danish companies between 1854 and 1990. While this extraction generated substantial colonial wealth that funded infrastructural and institutional developments in Denmark, the local Inuit community in Kalaallit Nunaat bore the social and environmental costs. In 2025, the documentary film Orsugiak – The White Gold of Greenland brought this history into public view, challenging established accounts of Danish colonialism. The backlash and subsequent deplatforming of the film reveal how colonial hierarchies continue to shape whose knowledge and narratives are granted legitimacy. As a Danish-Kalaaleq researcher and the main narrator of the film, I conceptualise this as `epistemic dispossession’ and argue for Inuit narrative sovereignty as a way of knowing and storying on Indigenous terms. This article is published in the Thematic Collection ‘On Greenland’, edited by Tim Ingold.