New mobile app helps Inuit people hunt and navigate through ice melting from climate change

'The weather's changing, the ice conditions are changing, and when we're driving a snow mobile or walking we have to think before we get on that ice.'

"Oral history has been a big part of Inuit tradition," another Inuit hunter said in the video."Nothing was written, so everybody just had a good memory."

Elder Jimmy Iqaluit and Hunter Johnny Kurluarok review posts on the SIKU online platform as a part of developing the platform. Elder Jimmy Iqaluit and Hunter Johnny Kurluarok review posts on the SIKU online platform as a part of developing the platform.The community used to get its information from five different websites before the creation of the app.

SIKU addresses unique needs for the Inuit that other modern forums for community gathering like Facebook and Twitter don't, Lucassie Arragutainaq, manager of the Sanikiluaq Hunters and Trappers Association, told The Canadian Press. Its main types of posts are social, wildlife, sea ice and tools. The SIKU project was awarded $750,000 in funding after it won the 2017 Google.org Impact Challenge in Canada.Puasi Ippak tests out the SIKU mobile app near Sanikiluaq.Inuit is a term used to characterize native peoples inhabiting arctic regions of Canada, Alaska and Greenland.

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