The Nanook family and their partners live on Baffin Island, which is extremely cold, winds blowing all day long, and uninhabited.
On the cold sea ice sheet, the Ekismo used various hunting techniques to capture their prey, and they knew how to cooperate in groups, because only cooperation can survive in such a harsh environment. When the Ekismos hunt, some people will sigh: Too cruel. But compassionate compassion is useless in such circumstances, which is required by the laws of nature, however cruel it may be. If the prey escapes, the prey survives and the Ekismos starve to death; if the prey is captured, the prey dies and the Ekismos survive. The shadow of the laws of nature is revealed in Nanook's hunting behavior.
On the surface, the Ekismo are fighting against nature, they take their prey from nature; they use "Igloo" to avoid the invasion of nature. But in essence, the Ekismo lived in strict accordance with the laws of nature: in summer, they used ice floes to catch salmon; in winter, they used ice sheets to catch seals; they hunted during the day and rested at night; and they migrated according to the changing seasons. All these behaviors are the embodiment of Ekismo's observance of the laws of nature.
In order to live in nature, people must live in accordance with the laws of nature. The huge state machinery and complicated social division of labor created by modern people are farther and farther away from nature. People also seem to think that they have the ability to despise nature, but on the remote Baffin Island, there is a group of people who revere and fear nature. They are a part of nature, born in nature, and will return to nature.
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