STEPHEN GORMAN
Arctic Climate Change, Nature, and Indigenous Culture Photography

The Last Ice Hunters

The Inughuit are a Greenland minority constituting about 1 percent of the general population. They speak a unique Inuit dialect and exist as a distinct subculture. Very much aware of their unique identity, they are proud people and strongly believe that survival in their harsh environment depends on the use of Inughuit ways and experience. The Inughuit call themselves "the great and real human beings," and until White contact in 1818, they believed that they were the only humans in the world.