#inupiat

A Wrenching Choice for Alaska Towns in the Path of Climate Change

The #Inupiat people who for centuries have hunted and fished on Alaska’s western coast believe that some dreams are portents of things to come.

But here in #Shaktoolik, one need not be a prophet to predict flooding, especially during the fall storms.

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▻http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/11/29/science/alaska-global-warming.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=stor

#Alaska #climat #changement_climatique #peuples_autochtones #arctique #réfugiés_environnementaux #réfugiés_climatiques

Never Alone: Could a Video Game Help to Preserve #Inuit #Culture?

For more than three thousand years, the #Iñupiat people of #Alaska have passed on stories to their children. Like all enduring fiction, the stories deliver truths that transcend cultural shifts. They act as seeds of moral instruction and help to define and preserve the community’s identity. The story of Kunuuksaayuka, for example, is a simple tale of how our actions affect others: a boy named Kunuuksaayuka goes on a journey to identify the source of a savage blizzard. In the calm eye of the storm, he finds a man heaving shovelfuls of snow into the air, oblivious that they gather and grow into the squalls battering Kunuuksaayuka’s home downstream.

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