Sea ice may disappear, but native words linger (fwd link)

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Sea ice may disappear, but native words linger

Program #5394 of the Earth & Sky Radio Series
with hosts Deborah Byrd, Joel Block,
# Lindsay Patterson and Jorge Salazar.

Arctic sea ice is changing – and so are traditional ways of knowing sea ice by
the Eskimo or Inuit people of the far north.

Igor Krupnik: As the practices of using and knowing sea ice are to change, so
will the knowledge about sea ice. Let’s say if multi-year ice disappears, the
language will be perhaps the last resort of any knowledge about multi-year ice.

To access full article, just follow the link below:
http://www.earthsky.org/radioshows/52040/sea-ice-may-disappear-but-native-words-linger