#inupiat
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Person appears holding a bundle of furs.
“Hi! My name’s Siqiñiq, I am Iñuipaq from Alaska, Iñuit, and I want to show you my furs!”
They shift the furs in their arms, holding up a white with blue undertone fur.
“This is blue fox, I’m going to use this on my girl’s parka’s (atigi)”
They hold up a white and brown colored fur.
“This is lamb, which in the city many of us use as liners.”
They next switch to a caramel colored outfit.
“This is sikshrik, squirrel. This is what you would use as a liner traditionally. It’s much softer, so pretty.”
The next fur is a white-grey color.
“This is silver fox, my favorite.”
The Tiktoker holds up the finale fur.
“And my wolf!”
They wrap the wolf fur around their head.
“Okay, yesterday Biden signed support in one of the largest fossil fuel projects in North America right next to my village where my mom lives right now-“
White text that says “Willow Master Project” shows up. They put the fur down and bend closer to the camera.
“-a dynamite mine less then 10 miles away would be installed over 300 miles of pipeline. This completely goes against the Paris climate agreement.
You can take action now.
Visit the link in my profile, it’ll go to a YouTube video of testimony’s of real people in these communities. Then go to silainuat.org
Thank you!”
The video stops
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Video opens up to uncut beluga meat on a wooden cutting board, gently zooming in with an ulu at the side. It zooms out to show soy sauce collected in a white with red rimmed bowl. Another person slowly starts cutting off the raw beluga fat from the beluga skin
“Yes, this is beluga. Our favorite traditional meal, called mattak. We eat it with soy sauce, and we use this traditional knife called ulu.”
“We cut off the fat. We make sure to cut it in small pieces because it’s hard to chew, it has a rubbery texture.”
Video shows the beluga meat being diced, still connected to the skin. Person dips the mattak into soy sauce and eats it.
The person recording holds up a big and thin piece of dried caribou, turning the camera to themself as they eat it.
“And this is dried caribou, called nikkuk. It’s delicious. All of these animals are hunted by our people, family, friends, and we feed to the whole community so it’s completely—“
The audio cuts off with white text clarifying, “The animals lived a happy natural life, we do not waste any part of the animal. We need to STOP the stereotypes of this being “cruel” and “inhumane”. This is the best way to hunt food.“
Screen switches to the Tik Toker’s name and username, Shina Nova / @shinanova
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