The group collided with Anaogok Alakee, an Inuit elder from Nunavut, who said the seal hunt isn’t about killing and selling; instead, it’s a way of life for her and her people.

The Inuit have survived and thrived for generations in one of the most remote, vast and rugged places on Earth, hunting for seals, whales and polar bears. Their traditional religion is animist.

For thousands of years, Greenland's Inuit people survived the world’s harshest conditions while living off whales, seals, polar bears, fish and caribou. Greenland's isolated indigenous culture, long ...

Shaman Aviaja Rakel Sanimuinaq lies on the pelt of a polar bear her family hunted and is now kept in a studio where she performs Inuit ancestral spiritual healing in Nuuk, Greenland, on Wednesday ...

In recent years, Greenlanders like her have been embracing pre-Christian Inuit traditions, including drum dancing and Inuit tattoos. For some, it's a way to proudly reclaim their ancestral roots.

The Inuit have survived and thrived for generations in one of the most remote, vast and rugged places on Earth, hunting for seals, whales and polar bears. Their traditional religion is animist.