In 2002, the City of Kaktovik commissioned a 1/2-hour documentary with
the purpose of expressing the Kaktovikmiut perspective on potential
petroleum development within a portion of their ancestral homelands:
the Coastal Plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. It was made
in response to a massive media intrusion that has, in the eyes of the
Kaktovikmiut, dramatically misrepresented their ideas, beliefs and way
of life. A highlight of that piece is available here.
|