Leona Aglukkaq, an Inuit recently appointed to be the future chair of the Arctic Council, "would like to see scientists and conservationists butt out when it comes to weighing in on how to manage a future for the Inuit"

As Arctic Melts, Inuit Face Tensions with Outside World by Ed Struzik: Yale Environment 360

First, the community’s spring narwhal hunt, which usually yields roughly 60 of the tusked whales, produced only three. The sea ice was so thin that the Inuit couldn’t safely stand on it and shoot the narwhal as they migrated into Arctic Bay from Greenland through channels in the ice.
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But while some Inuit are unsettled by environmental changes that neither they, nor scientists, fully comprehend, other Inuit in Canada and Greenland are embracing development in a region with high rates of unemployment and a rapidly growing population. (Officials predict that Canada’s Inuit population will grow from 53,000 today to 77,000 in 20 years.)

Leona Aglukkaq, an Inuit who is Canada's Health Minister and who was recently appointed to be the future chair of the Arctic Council — a forum representing all states bordering the Arctic Ocean and organizations representing indigenous people — would like to see scientists and conservationists butt out when it comes to weighing in on how to manage a future for the Inuit. This includes outsiders trying to block oil and gas development or mining, as well as those seeking to restrict the harvest of increasingly threatened, sea ice-dependent species.
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“It’s about fighting environmentalists that try and put a stop to our way of life and hunting to provide for our families,” Aglukkaq said last spring.

She is especially upset about recent proposals from scientists and conservation groups for a moratorium on commercial fishing in the Arctic, limits on polar bear hunting in some parts of the Arctic, and a federal plan that would have banned the sale of narwhal parts — a plan that was shelved after the Inuit threatened the Canadian government with legal action last December. Polar bear hunts have been a lucrative source of income for many Inuit, who charge big game hunters as much as $50,000 to kill a bear.
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“I don’t know of any modern-day culture that has experienced changes on a scale such as the ones they’ve experienced in such a short period of time,” Tester said. “In less than a decade in the 1950s and 1960s, they went from being a hunting and gathering culture to a modern one. They’ve undergone forced relocation and had their children sent to residential schools. Now with climate change and the prospects of rapid industrial development, they’re going through another catastrophic change. In the past, southerners have been able to tell them what to do, but no more.”