January

• Trapping continues
• Seal hunting
• Seal skins prepared for bleaching
• Polar bear hunting
• Build/repair skin boats

February

• Trapping continues
• Caribou skins drying outside
• Seal and ugruk skins also drying/bleaching
• Seal hunting
• Continue build/repair skin boats

March

• Some polar bear hunting
• Seal hunting
• Trapping continues for fox, wolf and wolverine
• Women sew ugruk skins for skin boats
• New skins put on boat frames
• Hunting tools repaired
• Female polar bears bring out their young

April

• End of trapping season
• Whaling season begins
• Caribou and ground squirrel hunting inland
• Time to clean cellars if not done during winter
• Birth of young seals

May

• Whaling continues
• Geese/ptarmigan hunting inland
• Duck hunting on ice
• Ice breakup on rivers
• Seals on ice at Qaaktugvik
• Ugruk have their young

June

• Caribou fawning period
• Nalukataq in the whaling communities (Kak, Nui, Brw, Am, Pho)
• Going off to Summer camps
• Fishing on rivers and lakes begins
• Seal hunting
• Fishing in Qaaktugvik

July

• Camping and hunting continues
• Fishing continues
• Caribou hunting
• Gathering eggs in Pt. Hope
• Ugruk and walrus hunting
• Drying meat and making seal oil
• Preparing ugruk skins for boats

August

• Caribou hunting by boats, some by snow machines
• Ugruk and aiviq hunting continues
• Ugruk skins prepared for boat bottoms
• Some people still in their summer fishing and hunting camps.
• Duck hunting at Pigniq.
• Some fishing with nets at Pigniq
• Boat frames built
• Geese hunting in Wainwright
• Tuktaq making time
• Fishing on the rivers
• Berry picking inland

September

• Panmaksrak coming through
• Some duck hunting
• Beginning of fall bowhead whale hunt
• Moose hunting
• Whaling in Kaktovik/Nuiqsut/Barrow

October

• Fall whaling continues
• Ice fishing on rivers and lakes
• Caribou hunting first part of the month
• Ice fishing along coastline for cod fish

November

• Polar bear hunting on the coastline
• Seal hunting
• Some hunters still at fish camps
• Traditional Thanksgiving Feasts

December

• Trapping season for fox, wolf, wolverine
• Seal hunting
• Polar bear hunting
• Traditional Christmas Feasts
• Traditional games of skill and endurance
• Time to clean ice cellars and houses for the new year