Project Word’s debut exploration of indigenous communities and climate change appeared in the September–October 2009 issue of the British magazine Resurgence.

The piece, an essay that grew out of the project director’s April trip to Arctic Village, Alaska, reported the effects of melting permafrost on Gwich’in caribou hunters, and their implications for the rest of us. In December it also appeared in the web magazine Guernica as a photo essay.

Caribou from the Porcupine herd rest on a plateau above the Chandalar River, in traditional Gwich'in territory, as they prepare to cross the distant Brooks Range, en route to their spawning grounds on the north slope, called Iizhik Gwats'an Gwandaii Goodl. Photo by Nicolas Villaume.