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<p>ADVANCE FOR USE SUNDAY, AUG. 21, 2011 AND THEREAFTER - In this July 21, 2011 photo, Inuit hunter Nukappi Brandt aims his rifle to shoot a seal, which dived underwater before he could get off a shot, as his daughter Luusi, 8, keeps low inside their small boat outside Qeqertarsuaq, Disko Island, Greenland. Brandt, 49, has been a hunter since age 14, and said roughly 20 years ago, when winter sea ice became too thin to support dogsleds, seal hunting ceased to be a sustainable way of life here. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)</p>

<p>ADVANCE FOR USE SUNDAY, AUG. 21, 2011 AND THEREAFTER - In this July 21, 2011 photo, Inuit hunter Nukappi Brandt aims his rifle to shoot a seal, which dived underwater before he could get off a shot, as his daughter Luusi, 8, keeps low inside their small boat outside Qeqertarsuaq, Disko Island, Greenland. Brandt, 49, has been a hunter since age 14, and said roughly 20 years ago, when winter sea ice became too thin to support dogsleds, seal hunting ceased to be a sust…

September 21, 2011

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In warmer Greenland, lack of sea ice affects Inuit people

DISKO ISLAND, Greenland - The old hunter was troubled by the foreigners encroaching on his Inuit people's frozen lands.