“[One] thing is the timing of the seasons. They don’t connect anymore. We used to know in what season something would occur. For example when your feet would sink through the snow, you knew when the aujaq (summer) or upinngaaq (spring) would happen. Using our traditional knowledge you would know what was going to happen when, but you just can’t predict anymore. People like me are confused. In the early fall sometimes there will be a freeze of the lake and the ponds, and then after that it would take several weeks to have the ice finally safe enough to travel on."
