Canada’s National Observer; “‘We’re not in igloos anymore’: Seal Summit wraps with hope for a growing market for Inuit hunters”

Canada’s National Observer; “‘We’re not in igloos anymore’: Seal Summit wraps with hope for a growing market for Inuit hunters”

Inuk hunter Rubin Komangapik and his hunting partner Yoanis Menge have hope that the worst is behind them.

The pair run Reconseal — a co-operative whose name is a play on reconciliation. Based out of the Magdalen Islands, Reconseal supplies southern Inuit organizations with seal meat and skin so urban Inuit can access seal skins and country foods, a term encompassing traditional staples such as seal meat, arctic char and caribou.

Along the way, the two hunters teach each other cross-cultural hunting techniques and trade worldviews….