In a dictionary that Christopher Koonooka translated from Yupik to English, there are words describing wavy ice, shore fast ice, small cakes of ice, and thin ice overlapped like shingles.
The Inuit know that they will not always get what they want in Russia, say, where the rights of the Yupik, another Inuit group, are enshrined in the constitution but are being eroded by the government.