Solid ice a month late in Pond Inlet, Nunavut yahoo.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from yahoo.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Some people are still going out in boats. Others are finding alternate ways of accessing the land, since the ice they rely on for hunting is now a month late forming. In the Arctic hamlet of about 1,600 people, high winds keep pushing the sea ice away from the community, Arreak said.
It’s often said that the Inuit language, Inuktitut, boasts dozens of words for ice. The reality is more nuanced. Translating to “old knowledge,” the Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit, or IQ, is a kind of oral record-keeping that classifies sea ice by type, condition, location and utility. In meetings between Inuit people and industry and government leaders focused
By Emily Blake · The Canadian Press
Ice forming later, breaking earlier
Andrew Arreak says travelling on the ice the main highway in Canada's Arctic provides access to the land and food, connects communities and is part of Inuit identity. But climate change is making ice travel less predictabl
YELLOWKNIFE - Andrew Arreak says travelling on the ice the main highway in Canada's Arctic provides access to the land and food, connects communities and is part of Inuit identity.