Today, fewer than 500 ice hunters are able to live by hunting alone. They travel by dogsled, wear skins, and hunt with harpoons.2At the same time, they also use guns, cell phones,
and watch TV. “This changing weather is bad 30 for us,” Danielsen says, scowling.3 “Some [of our] people have to go other ways to make a living.” His wife, Ilaitsuk, who used to go with him on these hunting trips, has had to take a job at a day-care center in Qaanaaq to 35 help pay their bills. The government now funds job training programs to help ice hunters find other employment.