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Angry Inuk
Angry Inuk

0:10 ♪♪
0:13 Some of my earliest memories are of seal hunting as a family.
0:24 Animal groups have been fighting since the 1960s
0:27 to shut down the sealskin trade.
0:37 I've never really met these anti-sealers face-to-face.
0:42 And I have some questions.
0:44 [shouts]
0:48 We have to stop the cultural prejudice that is imposed on us.
0:54 We have to listen to the people
0:55 who have been the guardians of this earth.
1:09 ♪♪
1:17 Some of my earliest memories are of seal hunting as a family.
1:24 Peering out over the water...
1:27 hoping for a seal to surface.
1:29 ♪♪
1:31 [whistling]
1:45 [gunshot]
3:10 [engine hum]
3:16 At some point in my childhood, I realized there are people
3:19 out there who don't like seal hunting.
3:25 Every spring I'd watch people on the news
3:28 call seal hunters horrible things.
4:50 That's them eating seal meat? - Yeah.
4:52 That's a proud Inuk photo.
4:53 [laughter]
4:55 Their grandfather used to come home with seal
4:58 and they were just like Huskies, dive right into the meat.
5:04 No kidding.
5:05 - Everything was just like... - Head first apparently.
5:07 [laughter]
5:08 It would be scary in any otherculture,
5:11 So cute.
5:11 but to us it's like, Very cute.
5:13 [laughter]
5:19 I wanted to make this film because it bothered me
5:22 when I saw animal welfare groups portray seal hunting
5:25 as an evil and greedy thing.
5:29 The images and statements they put out
5:31 don't reflect the seal hunting I know.
5:34 They don't even mention Inuit.
5:36 And my friend Aaju Peter is fighting to change that.
5:42 Aaju is a sealskin clothing designer,
5:44 a lawyer and long-time activist for Inuit seal hunting rights.
5:50 When I came here, I learned how to work
5:52 with sealskin.
5:54 My mother-in-law was always sewing,
5:56 and I wanted to learn how to work with sealskin.
5:59 I was able to sell beautiful sealskin products.
6:03 It allowed me to stay home and raise my children from home.
6:18 I know a lot of Inuit like Aaju, who depend on sealskin sales
6:21 for their livelihood.
6:23 Our economic options are very few,
6:26 so the sealskin market is extremely important to us.
6:30 Unfortunately, we have fewer and fewer places
6:32 to sell our products because animal groups
6:35 have been fighting since the 1960's
6:37 to shut down the sealskin trade.
6:39 ♪♪
6:41 [crowd noise]
6:44 Anti-sealing campaigns focus almost entirely
6:47 on the spring hunt around Newfoundland
6:49 and the Gulf of Saint Lawrence in Southern Canada.
6:52 They try to convince everyone that this hunt is cruel
6:55 and inhumane, and that the problems with it are unfixable.
7:00 They argue that the only way to address their concerns
7:03 is to totally ban trade in sealskin.
7:08 But regardless of how you feel about that hunt,
7:11 most seal hunters in Canada and the world are actually Inuit.
7:17 We hunt seals all around the Canadian Arctic,
7:20 as well as Alaska, Greenland and Russia.
7:24 But animal groups make it sound like sealskins all come
7:27 from that one spring hunt in the South of Canada.
7:31 They call it "The Canadian Seal Hunt".
7:34 Or even just "The Seal Hunt".
7:36 Which completely fails to acknowledge that Inuit
7:39 are an important part of the sealskin market.
7:44 We need to remind the world we exist.
7:49 But it's difficult to get our message heard because
7:51 anti-sealing protests tend to be loud and confrontational,
7:56 whereas Inuit anger is much quieter.
8:01 In the old days, if someone upset you,
8:07 Then they'd take a turn with the drum and tease you back.
8:11 It's kind of like a modern day rap battle, but Inuk style,
8:14 so more quiet and slow.
8:16[drum beating]
8:18 You'd go back and forth until laughter replaced the tension.
8:22 And if you lost your temper, you'd lose the battle
8:25 because losing your temper
8:26 can be a sign of a guilty conscience.
8:31 The song battles are long gone,
8:33 but we still try to stay calm and reasonable when we're upset.
8:50 Anti-sealers have carefully developed the image
8:52 of commercial sealing as a massive and evil operation.
8:56 And they say it's inherently inhumane.
8:59 But for us, this is what commercial sealing
9:01 mostly looks like.
9:38 I've seen many campaigns argue that sealing should end
9:42 because it's not moral to kill a seal just for the fur.
9:46 They say fur is shame and a frivolous luxury.
9:50 But Inuit defy that argument because we eat the meat.
9:54 And for us a warm coat is not a luxury;
9:57 it's necessary for day-to-day survival.
11:04 How could these groups work for so many decades
11:06 to crush our industry without ever having seen it
11:09 with their own eyes?
11:14 Lasaloosie has been selling sealskins his whole life.
11:19 And is still one of the most active sealers in his community.
11:35 Since our hunters live in tiny remote communities
11:38 and don't necessarily speak English,
11:40 the government of Nunavut arranges for a wild life officer
11:43 in each community to buy skins from hunters
11:45 throughout the year.
11:48 Then the government collects all the skins
11:51 from all the communities and combines them for sale
11:53 at international auction on the hunters' behalf.
11:56 This is how Inuit take part
11:58 in the global commercial sealskin market.
12:00 This allows us to continue our traditions
12:03 and take part in the modern world.
12:06 It was our main economy for over a hundred years.
12:11 But in 1983, everything changed.
12:20 Greenpeace, the International Fund
12:21 for Animal Welfare and other groups
12:24 put out intense anti-sealing campaigns
12:26 throughout the 1970s and 80s.
12:29 As a result, in 1983, the European Union banned products
12:34 made from white coat harp seal pups.
12:39 Even though the legislation
12:41 only targeted one type of sealskin
12:43 that we don't even sell,
12:44 the campaigns ruined the reputation
12:46 for all types of sealskin.
12:48 And the whole market crashed immediately.
12:53 It was our Great Depression.
12:59 I want to talk to someone who lived through this.
13:01 So I've gone to see Lasaloosie.
13:03 It's a typical February day at minus 32°C.
13:06 Minus 46° with the wind chill.
13:11 Lasaloosie says it's a pretty nice day
13:13 so he's just wearing his lighter fabric parka.
15:22 The 83 ban was a life-altering event for Inuit.
15:27 I grew up in the aftermath.
15:29 ♪♪
15:37 [chuckling]
15:39 ♪♪
15:42 Suicide was once a rare thing in our communities.
15:45 But as a result of the trauma from residential school abuse,
15:48 forestry locations and other destructive government policies,
15:51 Inuit began taking their own lives
15:53 at alarming rates in the 1970s.
15:56 When the ban hit in 83, it was yet another layer of stress
15:59 on our communities, causing widespread hunger and hardship.
16:04 Within a year, our suicide rate spiked even higher
16:07 and have been among the worst in the world ever since.
16:11 To this day, we're still working to undo the damage.
16:27 ars to repair the reputation of sealskins
16:31 and rebuild demand.
16:35 Sealskin prices climbed back up to about a 100$ per skin,
16:39 which is almost enough to make a living on.
16:43 Unfortunately, the anti-sealers are still at it.
16:47 And they're now pushing the European Union to pass a new ban
16:50 that's even worse than the last one.
16:53 It would reject all seal products. So that means
16:56 all types of sealskin and even the meat and oil.
17:03 We're just days away from the EU vote.
17:05 Aaju and a few volunteers are heading to Europe
17:09 to stand up for our fellow Inuit.
17:10 ♪♪
17:16 Upon our arrival, we're surprised to see
17:18 giant anti-sealing campaigns there already.
17:22 The International Fund for Animal Welfare
17:24 have a humongous inflatable seal balloon.
17:27 And The Humane Society International set up a jumbo TV
17:30 with anti-sealing ads.
17:32 You're not in favour of the ban on seals?
17:35 But in the legislation that we will vote at noon,
17:40 there is an exception for Inuit people
17:42 so they can go on; it's for their personal use.
17:46 With killing seals. And that's the only exception
17:51 to preserve the people of the Inuit.
17:53 For me the exception is of no use because once the
17:57 commercial hunt goes down, once the price goes down,
18:01 we won't--he won't be able to make any money off the seals
18:05 on which he depends, and on which he and his wife depends.
18:09 So whether the exception is there or not,
18:11 we are being affected without our word.
18:14 - Yeah, OK.
18:16 I will think about it.
18:17 The EU parliamentarians seem to be having a really hard time
18:20 understanding that we're part of the commercial market.
18:24 They're still picturing little Eskimos in igloos
18:26 with no need for money.
18:54 Aaju and the hunters are handing out pamphlets
18:57 and standing right beside them are anti-sealing campaigners
19:00 handing out little white baby seal dolls.
19:04 I'll get it for my granddaughter in America.
19:06 It's been illegal to hunt white coats in Canada
19:10 for 30 years now.
19:12 But they keep using images of them,
19:14 deliberately misleading the public.
19:17 We now know that they've been here for months
19:19 giving out thousands of these white dolls.
19:27 These are huge organizations with so much money
19:29 to spread misinformation.
19:31 And here we are, with no resources to fight it.
19:35 [applause and announcement]
19:42 As we wait for the parliamentarians to vote,
19:44 we can see how few of them we've been able to reach.
19:48 It's us versus the little white seal dolls
19:51 and we see a lot of dolls in the room.
19:53 [announcements in foreign language]
20:05 ♪♪
20:15 ♪♪
20:21 Since no one thought to ask Inuit
20:22 to be a part of the discussion,
20:25 we didn't stand a chance of stopping this ban
20:27 from happening.
20:31 I feel for Joshua.
20:34 As the leader of his hunters association,
20:36 it's plain to see he feels the weight of responsibility.
21:00 They could have chosen a certification programme
21:03 based on Animal Welfare standards.
21:06 They could have regulated things such as killing methods
21:09 or quotas, boat size or daily catch limits.
21:14 But instead, they chose the harshest option,
21:16 designed to crush the entire market.
21:21 Now we have no choice but to try to overturn the ban.
21:51 Aaju has convinced a collective of Inuit organizations
21:54 to launch two lawsuits to try to overturn the ban
21:56 through EU courts.
21:59 I think when I was asked why I wanted to go to law school,
22:03 one of my reasons was that I would like to be able to explain
22:09 the western laws that are affecting Inuit way of life
22:13 in a language that the elders can understand.
22:17 It wasn't necessarily because I wanted to be a lawyer;
22:21 I'm not a practicing lawyer.
22:23 But I wanted to understand how come there is so much injustice
22:28 in this world and is there a way that we can change it?
22:39 It's been about a year since the new ban was passed.
22:43 Before the ban, Inuit were selling
22:44 around 60,000 skins a year.
22:47 Now we're selling less than half of that number and the prices
22:51 for each skin fell from around a 100$ down to about 10$.
22:55 That's just the raw skins.
22:57 There are also the losses on finished products
22:59 made from sealskins like mitts, boots and coats.
23:05 I also cringe when I think of how much less meat
23:07 people are bringing home to their families.
23:11 We're already the most food insecure indigenous people
23:14 in any developed country,
23:16 with 7 in 10 Inuit children going to school hungry.
23:21 In all of North America, our region has the highest poverty
23:24 and unemployment rates and the highest cost of living.
23:29 When I tell southerners that we're sometimes paying 28$
23:32 for a cabbage, 82$ for 12 cans of ginger ale,
23:36 and 18$ for a jar of Cheez Whiz, they're stunned.
23:41 With 50 dollars in hand, an Inuit hunter could choose to buy
23:44 a tiny amount of junk food or he could buy fuel to go hunting,
23:48 bringing enough seal meat to feed his entire extended family.
23:52 Fresh local wild organic seal meat.
23:55 That's more nutritious and healthy
23:57 than any meat you can buy at the store.
24:00 That's why the sealskin market is so important.
24:03 It's not just about tradition for us.
24:05 Hunting is still the best way to feed Inuit.
24:08 And the cash from sealskins keeps that cycle going.
24:12 When that cycle is interrupted,
24:14 the pressure to look at other economic options increases.
24:17 And we have very few options.
24:20 For example, the Canadian government is proposing
24:23 underwater seismic testing around Baffin Island - my home,
24:27 to explore offshore oil and gas reserves,
24:30 putting extreme stress on several of our communities.
24:34 We're not talking about a tiny island here.
24:36 Baffin Island is about twice the size of the UK.
24:44 Seismic testing involves underwater explosions
24:47 at decibel levels that studies have shown to cause damage
24:50 to the hearing of marine mammals.
24:53 These explosions happen every 10 seconds
24:56 for hundreds of kilometres
25:00 Niore Iqalukjuak is from Clyde River,
25:03 one of the biggest sealing communities that was hardest hit
25:06 by the seal product bans.
25:09 He is speaking out about seismic testing
25:11 because his community has seen it before.
26:05 ♪♪
26:12 Even in the face of poverty, Niore's community
26:15 has been fighting for forty-five years to protect
26:18 one of the most delicate eco-systems on the planet
26:21 from one of the most destructive industries.
26:25 All this time, instead of getting help from animal
26:28 and environment groups,
26:30 his community's main sustainable economy
26:32 has been under attack.
26:35 ♪♪
26:39 Ironically, by fighting to save the seals, all these groups have
26:43 inadvertently put all the Arctic animals,
26:46 not to mention us humans, at higher risk.
26:51 I'm amazed Niore can speak with such a calm and clear voice,
26:55 because the whole thing makes me want to scream.
27:16 One of the names I see in the media a lot is Rebecca Aldworth,
27:20 who is the go-to anti-sealing person
27:23 for the various chapters of the Humane Society.
27:26 She's the one who organized the photoshoot with Paul McCartney
27:29 and his wife Heather Mills which got a lot of media attention.
27:34 It's campaigns like that that have helped them
27:35 be really successful.
27:37 They've got over 200 million dollars in assets now.
27:40 They're definitely one of the bigger animal groups.
27:43 So I'm gonna try contacting Rebecca Aldworth directly.
27:54 Aaju is going to Europe again.
27:58 This time she's going well before decisions are made
28:00 on our lawsuits.
28:06 Since we are traveling to Europe as ambassadors and educators
28:09 on behalf of Inuit Nunavut and Canada and. . .
28:13 What's even more awesome: a younger generation is joining us
28:17 in the fight.
28:19 A group of Inuit political science students based in Ottawa
28:22 are going on a speaking tour through Europe.
28:24 ♪♪
28:28 Aaju's got lots of meetings and media interviews
28:30 lined up in Stockholm and Copenhagen.
28:34 This legislation is not based on the fact that we treat
28:38 our animals well, that we do sustainable hunting.
28:41 [applause]
28:43 I'm gonna need your help in finding ways
28:46 to reverse this legislation.
28:49 I want to keep the dialogue open with the Europeans
28:52 on how we can move forward from here.
28:56 We want to get the word out that, you know, we exist
28:59 in this world and they're trying to take away all our rights.
29:05 I'd like to introduce you to Ms. Jaakonsaari,
29:08 Mr. Tarand, who are both members of the European Parliament.
29:12 At the bare minimum, we ask that you educate your people
29:15 and on how the propaganda that the animal rights groups
29:21 are spreading and really,
29:24 all we really ask is economic equality.
29:28 And to achieve that, we have to stop the cultural prejudice
29:31 that is imposed on us by not being allowed to benefit
29:36 from our natural surroundings
29:38 without having to drill into the ground
29:40 and that's really all we want as a people.
29:44 Thank you for inviting us here today.
29:46 I mustn't tell you really,
29:48 but uh, you have been lobbying more impressively
29:54 than the Canadian embassy has been able to do in four years.
29:58 [laughter]
30:04 Oh my God, man! No, no, no!
30:17 I'm not afraid of anything.
30:21 But if you publish it, I will be a dead man walking.
30:24 [chuckle]
30:33 The Inuit lawsuits against the EU
30:35 are working their way through the courts.
30:38 In the meantime, there's another protest coming up
30:41 on the International Day of Protest Against Seal Hunting.
30:46 Calling all Inuit: Animal rights activists are planning
30:48 to protest against seal hunting in Toronto on March 13th, 2013.
30:52 If you are in Toronto or you're willing to come to Toronto,
30:54 please come and join us, whether you're Inuk
30:56 or just a supporter of Inuit hunting rights.
31:00 We're gonna go try to crash their protest
31:02 with a little mini counter protest, I guess.
31:05 Or, at least, go and see
31:06 if we can have a conversation with them.
31:09 Cause I'm curious, you know?
31:10 I've never really met these anti-sealers face-to-face.
31:15 And I have some questions.
31:18 Awesome!
31:19 "Roselynn Akulukjuk commented on your status:
31:21 Cool! I'll see you there"
31:22 Yay! Awesome.
31:26 So at least we'll have like, five Inuit. (laugh)
31:29 We'll see who shows up.
31:32 The same Inuit students that went to Europe
31:34 saw my Facebook post.
31:35 And the whole class is heading from Ottawa to Toronto on a bus.
31:40I just wanted to remind you that we don't have to behave
31:43 the way other protesters behave.
31:45 Just be true to yourself.
31:47 Remember how your parents and your grandparents
31:50 would want you to behave.
31:51 And we're there to remind Canadians
31:53 that this does affect us.
31:55 In the places where they live in Europe or Southern Canada
31:59 or America, they torture animals;
32:02 they eat tortured animals every day!
32:05 But we don't.
32:08 That's just a point I wanted to make.
32:11 Well, you'll be making that point lots today, I'm sure.
32:15 They're kind of like busting our whole economy,
32:19 where we'll be forced into mining our minerals because
32:21 there's been so much opposition from the Inuit side,
32:24 and they know that they need our vote to be able to go up there.
32:28 And, like, if we don't have any sort of economy
32:31 to support ourselves we'll have to go and do that.
32:37 [honking horns and yelling]
32:41 Help our economy grow!
32:46 ♪ [singing] ♪
32:54 Today is the International Day of Action against seal hunting
32:58 and so we as Inuit wanted to gather and kind of do
33:01 a little bit of a counter protest
33:03 to reach as many people as we could.
33:05 I tried seal, so should you!
33:09 I tried seal, so should you!
33:13 And it tasted great!
33:15 [shouts]
33:24 ♪ [singing] ♪
33:27 So we're here to defend our right to hunt seals,
33:29 but we also want to have a better relationship with
33:32 environmental groups and animal rights groups because,
33:35 believe it or not, we're on the same side.
33:41 [cheers]
33:44 Thank you guys, that was awesome.
33:45 How was your first protest?
33:47 [shouts]
33:59 Before this, I thought maybe the animal groups
34:02 weren't getting my interview requests.
34:05 But I traveled over 2000 kilometres to see them.
34:08 And they didn't even show up to their own event,
34:10 once they heard we were coming.
34:12 Clearly, they're deliberately avoiding us.
34:16 Man's voice: Blizzard warning in effect.
34:19 Blizzard ending late this morning then snowing.
34:22 ♪♪
34:26 Today, despite all of our hard work,
34:28 the EU courts announced their decision on the Inuit lawsuits
34:31 against the seal ban and it didn't go our way.
34:38 They couldn't defend their decision based on animal welfare
34:41 or conservation standards,
34:43 so they say they based it on "moral grounds"
34:46 because, apparently, sealing offends Europeans.
34:52 Aaju is in Ottawa to meet with lawyers about the results.
34:56 Just because a million or a billion people do something
35:01 and pass a legislation against 32,000 Inuit for instance,
35:06 even if it's a majority, it's still wrong.
35:10 I think we really need to up our game
35:12 with the social media stuff.
35:15 We need to learn to understand their language.
35:18 ♪♪
35:25 How does a tiny remote population
35:27 change the minds of a billion people?
35:30 ♪♪
35:33 How do we do it with no money,
35:35 when animal groups are spending millions a year
35:37 working against us?
35:41 How do we do it when our anger is too quiet and soft
35:44 to get anyone's attention?
36:02 Spring is coming soon
36:04 and with it comes the annual anti-sealing bonanza.
36:08 I've been putting my little tweets out there,
36:10 but it's just not enough.
36:13 Then, just when I was wondering how to make something go viral,
36:17 Ellen Degeneres hosted the Oscars.
36:20 ♪♪
36:22 During the awards, she took a celebrity-packed selfie picture.
36:27 Her Oscar selfie became the most retweeted photo of all time.
36:31 It's everywhere.
36:32 The photo was taken on a Samsung device.
36:35 And Samsung agreed to donate a dollar for every retweet
36:38 to a charity of Ellen's choice.
36:41 Ellen is against seal hunting
36:43 and chose to donate 1.5 million dollars
36:45 to the Humane Society of the United States.
36:48 As if they didn't have enough money already.
36:54Everybody in!
36:56On three, say sealfie.
36:57One, two, three.
36:59 Sealfie!
37:01 ♪♪
37:02 My friend Laquluk and I were talking about
37:04 what else we could do.
37:05 And she suggested we make a play on the word "selfie"
37:08 and post Sealfies, pictures of ourselves wearing sealskin.
37:12 Or hunting or eating seals.
37:14 ♪♪
37:17 It's a cheeky but positive way to bring awareness to the fact
37:20 that Inuit are affected by anti-sealing campaigns.
37:24 ♪♪
37:26 So we posted our own Sealfies.
37:28 We got in touch with local media.
37:30 And put out a call for other Inuit to join us
37:33 and use the hashtag Sealfie.
37:35 And Inuit are responding.
37:37 ♪♪
37:41 The Sealfies are going great.
37:44 But the extreme anti-sealers have found us.
37:47 And our tiny little corner of the Internet
37:49 has exploded with hateful messages.
37:53 My friend Tania Tega posted a Sealfie of her cute chubby baby
38:00 next to a freshly cut seal.
38:02 And somebody photo-shopped her baby being skinned alive.
38:06 Some of the messages that my friends and I are receiving
38:10 are truly shocking.
38:19 It always catches me off guard.
38:25 You can see my eyes.
38:36 [Baby cooing]
38:51 The media requests about Sealfies keep coming.
38:53 And today Aaju and I got an invitation from Al Jazeera.
38:57 They want us to speak with Rebecca Aldworth
38:59 from The Humane Society on a live show
39:01 and she's actually agreed.
39:04 This is my best shot so far at having a conversation with her.
39:07 And how much do you want to bet she's going to talk about
39:09 subsistence hunting.
39:10 [baby kicking]
39:14 [laughter]
39:21 Better make sure my sealskin earrings are ready to go.
39:26 We're indoors so I'm not gonna wear a seal coat or mitts,
39:31 but I've got to have something sealskin.
39:34 I was really excited to finally have a chance to talk to
39:38 Rebecca Aldworth from The Humane Society.
39:42 And, unfortunately, last night she cancelled.
39:46 So, here we are again, ready to have a conversation
39:51 and the other side is just not there.
39:56 Despite finally getting a few emails back
39:58 from a couple of these groups,
40:00 I still haven't managed to get any of them on camera.
40:04 But recently, I found an interesting old article
40:07 about a woman who used to work for IFAW.
40:09 It says she brokered a deal with the Southern Canadian sealers,
40:13 where IFAW would be given joint power
40:15 to decide on their hunt quotas.
40:17 And their hunt would become full use.
40:19 Meaning all the meat, oil and skins would be used.
40:24 But apparently, when she took the deal to her supervisors
40:27 at IFAW, she was fired.
40:30 I found her on Twitter and she's agreed to Skype with me.
40:35 My name is Anamika. At one point, I worked for
40:39 The International Fund for Animal Welfare
40:41 for about 12, 13 years, if I recall correctly.
40:47 Was there much conversation ever about Inuit?
40:51 And how Inuit were affected by these campaigns?
40:55 Nobody wanted to talk about the fact that the Inuit were
41:01 just as much, if not more, affected by the European ban
41:07 as the sealers were.
41:08 I want to take the opportunity right now to apologize
41:13 for my role while I worked for IFAW
41:16 in this whole thing because I am really embarrassed
41:21 and I'm very sorry but I actually was part of all this.
41:27 And I feel really, to this day I still - uh,
41:32 still weighs heavily on me.
41:35 I'm sorry I didn't mean to make you cry.
41:37 [laugh]
41:39 No, it's uh ...it's happy tears.
41:44 Ok, that's good.
41:47 No, seriously, to this day it still weighs heavily on me.
41:55 So if there's anything I can do, please let me know. 41:59 Wow. I'm glad you found me.
42:01 ♪♪
42:12 ♪♪
42:18 [gunshot]
42:20 ♪♪
42:29 After all these years of chasing anti-sealers
42:31 and feeling invisible,
42:33 it was so nice to talk to Anamika.
42:37 She confirmed they've known about us all along.
42:40 ♪♪
42:54 Last time I was in Kimmirut, Isuaktok was a little boy
42:57 tagging along with his grandfather.
43:00 Now he's 13 years old and he's a hunter in his own right.
43:06He's providing for his community and it makes me proud.
43:11He and my son inspire me to keep sharing information respectfully
43:16 and trust that we'll eventually turn the tide.
43:22 It's time for a new model of animal activism.
43:26 And I hope the world will see that we as Inuit
43:29captions by be a part of it. sassonique

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