“‘Anaktuvuk’ means ‘the place of many caribou droppings’ ... It is the home of the inland Inupiat people known as the Nunamiut, who have depended on caribou not only as their main staple food source, but also culturally and spiritually, for millennia. The community was only founded in 1957 when the Bureau of Indian Affairs forced the Nunamiut to settle into a single village site. Before that they were nomadic with their homes and way of life revolving around the caribou migration.” Follow Katie Orlinsky on Instagram @katieorlinsky.
