Jim Brandenburg / Inuits dog sledding in midnight sun, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Inuits from Cape Dorset gathering round the carcass of a Beluga / White whale (Delphinapterus) for meat. Nunavut, Canada, 2002.

Flip Nicklin / Temporary hunting camp on ice floe, Admiralty Inlet Arctic Bay, Canada

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Inuits from Arctic Bay gathering on the ice for an Easter feast of Arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus) and seal meat. Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada, 2005.

Flip Nicklin / Inuits testing ice strength, Arctic Bay, Baffin Island, Canada

Flip Nicklin / Inuit hunters crossing ice break, Admirality Inlet, Arctic Bay, Canada

Flip Nicklin / Ringed Seal (Phoca hispida) at breathing hole being photographed by Andrew Taqutu and son, Arctic

Flip Nicklin / Inuit guide and film crew ferrying supplies and snowmobiles on icefloe, Arctic

Flip Nicklin / Narwhal (Monodon monoceros) meat hauled by Inuits, Baffin Island, Canada

Flip Nicklin / Narwhal (Monodon monoceros) meat and Inuit hunters, Baffin Island, Canada

Martha Holmes / Inuits skinning Caribou (Rangifer tarandus) Wager Bay, NW Territories, Canada, sequence

Martha Holmes / Inuits skinning Caribou (Rangifer tarandus) Wager Bay, NW Territories, Canada, sequence

Martha Holmes / Inuits skinning Caribou (Rangifer tarandus) Wager Bay, NW Territories, Canada, sequence

Martha Holmes / Inuits skinning Caribou (Rangifer tarandus) Wager Bay, NW Territories, Canada, sequence

Martha Holmes / Inuits skinning Caribou (Rangifer tarandus) Wager Bay, NW Territories, Canada, sequence

Martha Holmes / Inuits skinning Caribou (Rangifer tarandus) Wager Bay, NW Territories, Canada, sequence

Martha Holmes / Inuits skinning Caribou (Rangifer tarandus) Wager Bay, NW Territories, Canada, sequence

Martha Holmes / Inuits skinning Caribou (Rangifer tarandus) Wager Bay, NW Territories, Canada, sequence

Martha Holmes / Inuits driving sledge with dog team, Admiralty Inlet, Canadian Arctic

Sue Flood / Cameraman Doug Allan with Inuit family +and sledges on filming trip, Nunavut, Canada

Michio Hoshino / Pacific Walrus (Odobenus rosmarus divergens) harvested by Inuits, Alaska

Yva Momatiuk & John Eastcott / Female Cat (Felis catus) with nursing kittens, in box owned by Inuit family, Labrador, Newfoundland, Canada

Jim Brandenburg / Inuit direction marker, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada

Jim Brandenburg / Inuit direction marker, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada

Flip Nicklin / Bowhead Whale (Balaena mysticetus) being flensed by Inuits in background while others load muktuk, the skin and outermost layer of skin, onto sleds, Barrow, Alaska

Flip Nicklin / Bowhead Whale (Balaena mysticetus) being flensed by Inuits in the background with muktuk, the skin and outermost layer of skin, displayed on snow, Barrow, Alaska

Flip Nicklin / Bowhead Whale (Balaena mysticetus) being flensed by Inuits, Barrow, Alaska

Flip Nicklin / Bowhead Whale (Balaena mysticetus) captured by Inuits who gather around before it is flensed, Barrow, Alaska

Tui De Roy / Harbor Porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) meat for sale at modern Inuit market, Nuuk, Greenland

Michio Hoshino / Gray Whale (Eschrichtius robustus) pair in rescue attempt by Native Eskimos, Alaska

Michio Hoshino / Gray Whale (Eschrichtius robustus) in rescue attempt by Native Eskimos, Alaska

Michio Hoshino / Gray Whale (Eschrichtius robustus) in rescue attempt by Native Eskimos, Alaska

Michio Hoshino / Gray Whale (Eschrichtius robustus) pair in rescue attempt by Native Eskimos, Alaska

Michio Hoshino / Two Eskimo children, Alaska

Flip Nicklin / Bowhead Whale (Balaena mysticetus) hunter, an Inuit in traditional clothes with sealskin boat waiting for whales, Barrow, Alaska

Flip Nicklin / Bowhead Whale (Balaena mysticetus) hunters, Inuits in traditional clothes with sealskin boat waiting for whales, Brower fishing camp, Barrow, Alaska

Flip Nicklin / Bowhead Whale (Balaena mysticetus) hunter, an Inuit in traditional clothes sits in sealskin boat waiting for whales, Barrow, Alaska

Flip Nicklin / Narwhal (Monodon monoceros)carcass with two tusks with Inuit hunter, Baffin Island, Canada

Flip Nicklin / Narwhal (Monodon monoceros) being hauled out by Inuits, Baffin Island, Canada

Jim Brandenburg / Inuits traveling by sled dogs, Northwest Territories, Canada

Jim Brandenburg / Inuit monument near Resolute, Nunavut, Canada

Flip Nicklin / Bowhead Whale (Balaena mysticetus) hunters sleep fully dresses while waiting for whales, Barrow, Alaska

Flip Nicklin / Inuit Andrew Taqtu investigates seastars, corals and anemones, Arctic

Jim Brandenburg / Modern Inuit family with snowmobiles, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada

Flip Nicklin / Bowhead Whale (Balaena mysticetus) hunters haul captured whale onto ice, Barrow, Alaska

Flip Nicklin / Bowhead Whale (Balaena mysticetus) harvested baleen, Barrow, Alaska

Flip Nicklin / Bowhead Whale (Balaena mysticetus) has baleen removed by Inupiat Eskimos, Barrow, Alaska

Michio Hoshino / Inuits in motorboat with harvested Caribou (Rangifer tarandus) carcasses, Alaska

Flip Nicklin / Inuit researcher using hydrophone to record Narwhal (Monodon monoceros) vocalizations under the arctic ice, Baffin Island, Canada

Flip Nicklin / Inuit kayakers, Pond Inlet, northeast Baffin Island, Canada

Jim Brandenburg / Philipoosie Novalinge shows kids how to use crossbow, he was a role model for the documentary Nanook of the North, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada

Jim Brandenburg / Inuit girl, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada

Flip Nicklin / Andrew Taqtu, hunter and guide to Flip Nicklin, Arctic Bay, Canada