“Our language contains the memory of four thousand years of human survival through the conservation and good managing of our Arctic wealth.”

Eben Hopson (eh-behn hop-sen)

founder Inuit Circumpolar Council

IMAGE SOURCE: Home page image. “Eben Hopson Memorial Archives.” ebenhopson.com | TEXT SOURCE: Dalee Sambo Dorough. “Our Homeland” in “Emerging Legal Orders in the Arctic.” 2019.

QUOTE CONTEXT: “Our language contains the intricate knowledge of the ice that we have seen no others demonstrate. Without our central involvement, there can be no safe and responsible Arctic development.”

QUOTE QUESTION: Who holds the memory of the wealth of your Peoples’ land?

IMAGE CONTEXT: ”To those knowledgeable about the people of the Arctic, Eben Hopson is one of the great historic political leaders of the North…We hope our efforts here will stimulate interactive participation of Arctic residents, students, scholars and specialists who will…assess (his) contribution to social and political progress for all Native Americans, and for America.”

IMAGE QUESTION: What enables you to see clearly into both past and future?

MEDIA LITERACY CONTEXT: The quote is from a book about Inuit rights. The image is from a website memorial to Eben Hopson.

MEDIA LITERACY QUESTION: What are the ways you can use media to honor the lives of your esteemed ancestors?

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“Our language contains the memory of four thousand years of human survival through the conservation and good managing of our Arctic wealth.”

Eben Hopson (eh-behn hop-sen)

“Nation-states pretend...that they can just destroy cultures and languages, while the rest of us indigenous people have little voice, so we just have to be very, very loud in the way we can be.”

“If you know the land it's not a wilderness. The only place I would call wilderness is a place I don't know.”