Sparsely populated and largely impassable, areas within the Arctic Circle are nevertheless becoming one of the most important strategic zones for global powers ...

And this despite the fact that the region is part of the homeland of the Sami - an Indigenous people and culture that has nothing to do with the Inuit way of life thousands of kilometres away.

For over 10,000 years small-scale societies (e.g., Inuit, Norse, Innu, Sámi, Wabanaki, Euro-American settlers) have made a living along northern North Atlantic shores. They have responded and reacted ...