As Arctic Melts, Inuit Face Tensions with Outside World

As Arctic Melts, Inuit Face Tensions with Outside World by Ed Struzik:

e360.yale.edu 01 Oct '12, 12pm

As Arctic Melts, Inuit Face Tensions with Outside World

As Arctic Melts, Inuit Face Tensions with Outside World With Arctic summer sea ice rapidly disappearing, the native Inuit of Canada are encountering not only unsettling changes in their subsistence way of life, but also a growing number of outsiders who will further transform their once-isolated homeland. by ed struzik Sakiasiq Qanaq has seen a lot of changes on the north coast of Baffin Island in recent years as the retreat of summer sea ice has continued unabated. But the Inuit hunter has never seen anything quite like this year, when sea ice loss in the Arctic hit a record low. First, the community’s spring narwhal hunt, which usually yields roughly 60 of the tusked whales, produced only three. The sea ice was so thin that the Inuit couldn’t safely stand on it and shoot the narwhal as they migrated into Arctic Bay from Greenland through channels in the ice. Then an unpr...

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