Richard talks about his teachers, Inupiaq and scientific knowledge about his love of the Arctic. No Fences. Open Horizon. Abundant Wildlife and Culture that capitalizes on real knowledge of the Arctic environment
Glenn talks about the beauty of traditional Eskimo knowlege and how it works. He talks about his role as a whaler in his family crew, and he tells a harrowing story about being out on the ice hunting the bowhead when the ice broke off and he and his crew started to flow away and […]
The intersection between Inupiaq Eskimo and scientific knowledge
Richard’s mother an Inupiaq Eskimo married Richard’s father who came to the Arctic to work on the DEW Line (a system of radar stations set up in the Arctic to detect incoming Soviet bombers during the Cold War) and Richard grew up in two worlds–that of San Francisco during the year and with his Inupiaq […]