Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Chukchi girls, with their family's ancestral clan mark painted in reindeer blood on their face, a ritual during the Chukchi 'Festival of the Young Reindeer' during which young reindeer are sacrificed....

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Chukchi men resting their Huskies (Canis familiaris) during hunting trip. Chukotskiy Peninsula, Chukotka, Siberia, Russia.

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Chukchi hunters travelling with Huskies (Canis familiaris) near Cape Dezhnev. Chukotskiy Peninsula, Chukotka, Siberia, Russia.

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Chukchi hunter scanning sea ice for Polar bears from his vantage point on top of pressure ice. Chukotka, Siberia, Russia.

Steven Kazlowski / Inupiaq / Inuit man hold his hand under the midnight sun in the Chukchi Sea, off shore from the arctic village of Barrow, Alaska, USA. April 2009

Steven Kazlowski / An Inupiaq whaling crew prepare to paddle their seal skin boat / umiak, in an open lead in the Chukchi Sea, during spring whaling season, off the Arctic coastal village of Point Hope, Alaska, May 2008

Steven Kazlowski / Young Inupiaq woman with Sheefish (Stenodus leucichthys nelma) caught through a hole in pack ice over the Chukchi Sea, for the village elders of Kotzebue, Alaska, March 2008

Steven Kazlowski / An Inupiaq whaling crew paddle their seal skin boat / umiak, in an open lead in the Chukchi Sea, during spring whaling season, off the Arctic coastal village of Point Hope, Alaska, May 2008

Steven Kazlowski / Inupiaq subsistence hunter looking for Ringed seals (Phoca hispida) on pack ice near Point Hope, Alaska, Chukchi Sea, March 2008

Steven Kazlowski / Inupiaq subsistence hunter resting after dragging Ringed seal (Phoca hispida) catch on the pack ice near Point Hope, Alaska, Chukchi Sea, March 2008

Staffan Widstrand / Chukchi girl playing beside her family's Yaranga tent, Chukotka, Russia

Ashley Cooper / Inuit people in hoodies with the name of the island 'Shishmaref'. Alaska, USA. September 2004