he'd gone through the northwest passage. i want to follow his footprints.e very important to us because we hunt a lot of the marine mammals. in our community we're very concerned that in a couple of years there's gonna be a lot of ships coming through here and we're scared that we'll have a lot of oil spills and it's going to ruin our marine mammals. francis crable: we think about climate change all the time, our generation, definitely me and my friends back home or even all of us here on the ship, we feel like it's something our generation s to solve. we wish people would listen to us more about it. narrator: ed struzik's been thinking and writing about climate issues for decades. a canadian author, lecturer, and journalist with over 40 years of experience reporting on the arctic, ed's recent book, future arctic, details the many changes he has witnessed here. ♪♪ ed struzik: "i'm hoping that this is going to give you a bit of perspective about what you're doing here. now that the arctic is warming what's happening? well, you know the story. sea ice is melt

the middle passage who endured the violence of slavery and the indignity of racial oppression, who had the courage to pack and head north and to the northwest, who blazed trails for us to be here and to be ourselves here. as we begin this program, iam honoring the sacred life, legacy and lineage of nat turner. we call out the names of the ancestors who, share the same spirit of liberty as nat turner. those like harriet tubman, dred scott, william grimes, sally ammon northup, henry box brown, william wells brown, william and ellen craft. frederick douglass, henry bibb and those unnamed who stood up against the inhumane system of slavery. we remember them. we honor them. we are because those of them. nat turner. nat turner was hero, a freedom fighter. he stood up to the violence of slavery for his for our humanity and said through his actions that by any means necessary he would be free. we are here to learn his story to pay tribute to his sacrifice and to honor his legacy with. his direct descendant, mr. bruce turner is with us tonight. this program is about reckoning with this past. it's about remembering. it's about never forgetting the pa