It has only been a short 60 years since Inuit families moved from an igloo and nomadic lifestyle, to a sedentary way of life in the hamlets and city of Nunavut. Much has changed since that time. The encroachment of Europeans and involvement of the Federal government in the land, lives and interests of the Arctic have altered Inuit families in many ways.

There are many passionate and visionary leaders today that have lived through the socio-economic and physical changes since that time: were children on the land to now being harbingers of global warning of the impacts of climate change to the fragile yet intimidating ice, snow, land and existence that is the Arctic.

Since time immemorial Inuit lived, watched and freehold the tides of weather and ice in order to survive.

Now it has changed.

While everything is connected, it is fragile and requires everyone's attention.

Watch Sheila Watt-Cloutier of Nunavik, Nobel Peace Prize nominee; Officer or the Order of Canada; UN Champion of the Earth Award. She is the author of The Right to Be Cold: One Woman's Story of Protecting her Culture, the Arctic and the Whole Planet.