Orto Ignatiussen outside his home in Tasiilaq, Greenland, in 2016. Rebecca Hersher/NPR hide caption
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A resident of the town formerly known as Barrow, Alaska, rides her motorcycle along an Arctic Ocean beach in 2005. The town is now officially called Utqiagvik, its Inupiaq name. Al Grillo/AP hide caption
Der ligger en lille ø midt i den gamle havn i Kangeq. John W. Poole/NPR hide caption
Ice-bound fishing boats in the harbor at Tiniteqilaaq, Greenland. Only about 50 people live in what was once a great hunting community. Rebecca Hersher/NPR hide caption
Greenland native Nina-Vivi Andersen, pictured in downtown Nuuk, Greenland, has her own perspective on the word Eskimo: "I don't mind to be called Eskimo — it is neutral for me. But when I saw an ice cream store in London with a name — Eskimo — it felt weird. But I feel weird to be called Inuit, too. I'm just a Greenlander." John W. Poole/NPR hide caption
A small island sits in the middle of Kangeq's old harbor. John W. Poole/NPR hide caption