rexford: having it rain during the middle of the winter season. caribou can't get through the ice to get to their food. folks were piling cacaribouu carcasasses by the hundrededs. patkota: we're reminded by our elders that the same principlels that we use in whaling, you apply that same principle in everything thatat you do. workig together, whether it's business, government, our culture. these pieces of baleen on the higher wall here represents the 8 communities throughout the arctic slope. we formed what we call the voice of the arctic inupiaq. it basically takes all the leadership from all the organizations across the slope to o go in one voice. thompson: asrc tries to present that they are the voice of the people, but they are not. it is a for-profit c corporation thats in joint venture with the oil industry at this moment. burns: on the western side, they all want development. they want it here in our land, because they want to preserve their own hunting grounds. we always like to represent ourself, but they represent us, but they d don't liv

that matthew rexford is president of the cat toby can he be at cooperation. with all of these are heavy metals and serious you know and all this heavy equipment it's tends to be more careful yes i think a very scary and then also a few days now of oh yes yes. we're regs but he's mattie's mom she's pregnant about the choices that my. the community are for their companies wanting to drill. when i 1st heard about it i do like. the. opportunity. what it can do very good i think it'll help it'll help. when the refuge was established the n.e.p. out of kaktovik what consulted. after generations of government interference murray is clear on who should make decisions about the land. god gave us this land to live life. for us not the government but the people that live here. why should they all give in when we live here we're doing fine everything's here everybody's getting involved in our problems we live here we make the rules not there you don't live here we do we shouldn't have to listen to them wouldn't not drilling for oil help protect your way of life. probably