Indigenous peoples have lived in the Arctic for thousands of years. They have survived through understanding their environment and using resources sustainably.
Inuit Elders from the Torngasok Cultural Center in Nain, Labrador and the Kitikmeot Heritage Society in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, in the Copper Inuit territory, gave personal responses to images of objects from Canada in Brighton Museum's collections.
Students from Patcham High School in Brighton created an animation about hunting and living on the land inspired by some of these historic objects.
Young Copper Inuit woman scraping wolverine skin with an ulu
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The Arctic region covers one sixth of the planet’s land mass, 8 countries and 24 time zones.
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Arctic sea ice is shrinking by an average of 10% each summer. The ocean could be seasonally ice free in a few decades.
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90% of the Arctic has little or no snow and ice in summer.
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The North Pole is not usually the coldest place in the Arctic. Russian Siberia gets colder.
- The Arctic is technically a desert. It is so cold that the air cannot hold the moisture required to create much rain or snow.
Students from Patcham High School created this animation about hunting and living on the land, inspired by historic objects from the Arctic in the museum collection.
Watch Arctic Peoples: An Animation video »
A conversation with Inuit Elders at the Kitikmeot Heritage Society in Cambridge Bay in the Copper Inuit Territory, Canada, about Copper Inuit objects in the collection
This map shows the Arctic regions from above. The yellow line marks the area where the average temperature for the warmest month of the year is usually below 10 degrees centigrade. This is how the Arctic region is often defined.
Inuit Elders from the Kitikmeot Heritage Society in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, in the Copper Inuit territory, and the Torngasok Cultural Center in Nain, Labrador generously provided us with knowledge, information and resources to enrich this display. We have marked the locations of Cambridge Bay and Nain in Canada on the map.