“Another thing we miss now is the qapiq, it is not happening anymore. Is it because we just don’t notice it? It is a very thin ice layer on the surface of the snow. We used to use it for a trap. We would cut an oval of snow and scrape it. This cover was used to keep it together.”

“There are lots of things that we have noticed such as there are hardly any clear skies now. There are clouds, or haze. It is always white out (qaqurnaqtuq) when you can hardly see the ground. We don’t get those clear skies anymore with very good visibility. The traditional word for it is pujurattuq—there is a lot of this now. It is not ihiriaqtuq (smoke from a fire) and there is a lot of that today. Even during clear skies. There is a lot of this [pujurattuq] now even during clear skies.

“The areas around the channels were considered cool places. They were known as cool places. Now they are just as hot as inland areas.”

“[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."

“Traditionally we have used snowdrifts as a guide, especially when we are travelling in the dark. We would check the drifts occasionally to make sure that we are heading in the right direction to return to our iglu. Now it is disorienting because they are not pointing in the direction that they were pointing in before.”

“The intensity of the wind has increased. Sometimes we worry about our cabins and belongings being blown away. These days things have to be secured. The wind is getting stronger than we used to experience before.”

“When you were camping out in an iglu, we would have the iglu by the lake. There was this constant cracking of the ice. It was non-stop and very loud like thundering. You don’t hear that anymore. It might do that once in a while but during those years you heard it all the time.”

"Today we don’t seem to be prepared for the changes that affect everyday life. People are dying of exposure and they are not prepared for the unpredictable weather."

“I have a strong respect for the people before me who were experts—especially at predicting the weather. Just by observing the sky and the clouds they were able to know what the weather would be the next day. And they were always accurate in their predictions. But today someone may make a prediction of how it will be by observing, and you might think you are right because you are observing certain signs, but because the weather changes so suddenly now, your prediction is more often wrong. It might be a very nice calm day and then you would get a storm.

"I have noticed from my younger days, as a hunter, especially the winters, there are extreme weather changes during the winter. The extreme cold followed by days of warmth."