The Inuit lead a lifestyle of subsistence and hunt and fish for a living. They also hunt and fish for their own food. They hunt seals, whales, and polar bear.

Five polar bears were killed right in the town of Tasiilaq this year. We asked our hotel guide about it and he said that he was there for one of the kills. He said that the polar bear was eating pet food. They fired several warning shots to scare the bear away but the bear just ignored the shots and them. As the shooter and hotel owner turned around, they saw about half the town standing there trying to take “selfies” with the bear and themselves. At that point, they realized that they needed to kill the bear (before someone got hurt).

I won't say that every single house has fish hanging near it or on it, but I would say that most houses do. These are mostly cod that are drying on this pole.

The drying fish come like this originally. We saw this boy coming home from school and these were on the front walk.

The story here is about global warming. Climate change has come to Greenland but with an effect that never occurred to me. An Inuit is in his boat at the bottom right side of this iceberg. They go out and hunt and fish in their boats during the months that the water is free of ice. They have very small boats. Climate change has caused changes to the water temperature and the whales tend to stay farther out to sea. Whales used to come right into the bays and fjords. Now the Inuit have to go farther out in the ocean and with small boats and weather changes, it can be very dangerous for them.

This is a hunter coming in with a seal in tow behind his boat. We asked our guide about them hunting seals and he said that seals are to Greenland what squirrels are to north America. He said that seals are the main animal they hunt.

This is in our hotel lobby in Kulusuk. The polar bear skin and the seal skins on the couch were all locally hunted.