| Summary: | In 2017, thirty years after Lenny Kohm first visited the Arctic, Lorraine Netro organized a caribou dinner and screening of The Last Great Wilderness slide show in the community hall in Old Crow, Yukon. This chapter describes how Vuntut Gwitchin responded to the show. Their questions afterwards addressed issues ranging from climate change to alliance-building with environmentalists and the role of Vuntut Gwitchin in the Arctic Refuge struggle. They also asked what happened to Kohm’s other photographs (not just those in the slide show) taken in and around Old Crow. Delving into the questions they posed, the chapter highlights how particular photographs—including Kohm’s at Norma Kassi’s family hunting camp along Zelma Lake and Subhankar Banerjee’s of polar bear denning sites along Beaufort Sea—can be seen as historic records of Arctic lands before they were so dramatically impacted by catastrophic climate change. Finally, the chapter explains how the author eventually found Kohm’s other Arctic slides and had them digitized and returned to the Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation.
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