The Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit Adventure

Seasons

Inuit depend on signs from the environment to help detect seasonal change.
For example:

"...in Avunnivik (March), caribou miscarriages, frost in the air due to the severe cold, and because of the extreme cold, sled runners do not slide well in the morning, but traveling improves later in the day." *

Ukiuq (January, February) the sea ice is frozen over, is the darkest period of the year, winter solstice, tivajut, camps on the sea ice, etc. *

*Source: Bennett, John and Rowley, Susan. “An Oral History of Nunavut.” McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2004.