For thousands of years, the Inuit lived a contented existence in the fragile and brutal Arctic. When the Cold War swept in during the 1950’s, it blew them from the Stone Age into the Space Age.

The United States bombarded the Arctic with military technology. Canada, fearing for its sovereignty, responded by establishing a welfare society.

Together they created a high-tech outpost where Inuit are trapped between the ancient and the post-modern. With their old economy destroyed, Inuit turned to a new one: exporting traditional sculpture. The barter gave the world mystical icons portraying a primitive people, even as those people were being launched into the Global Village.