Alaskan Malamute, sled dog developed by the Malemiut, an Eskimo (Inupiat) group from which it takes its name.
In order to truly push our polar extremes, we flew from Fairbanks to Barrow, where the sun never cracked the horizon and the indigenous Inupiat community was preparing for months of total darkness.
Shishmaref is an Inupiat village.
The Tikigaq Corporation, which uses Point Hope's original Inupiat name, already has a small contract with Shell to monitor vessel traffic and subsistence hunting in the Arctic and hopes for more work.
"Our Inupiat people acknowledge and recognize that, and it's a very tough, tough call to make," said Mayor Edward S. Itta of North Slope Borough, whose term ends next month.
A year later, Harris was off to Barrow, Alaska, where he documented Inupiat Eskimos on a whale hunt.
At the heart of the issue for this Inupiat community is the ability to participate in deciding what does or does not happen on this land.
"Sure I go to the store and buy processed food, but I love my Inupiat food.
A slim majority of voters in the largely Inupiat city of Barrow in Alaska approved efforts to change the community's name to Utqiagvik (pronounced "oot-GHAR-vik") in their local election on 4 October.
Attorneys acting for the 427 Inupiat people living in Kivalina made representations before an appeals panel in San Francisco on Monday, to claim climate change-related damages from Exxon Mobil , BPAmerica, Chevron, Shell, Peabody Energy, the world's largest coal provider, and America's largest electricity-generating companies including American Electric Power and Duke Energy.
Some members of the coastal Inupiat community, the Gwich'in's neighbours to the north, have supported drilling – or at least some Inupiat members of the isolated island town of Kaktovik off the coast of the refuge have.
