Earl Kingik is a member of the Native Village of Point Hope, Alaska. Earl is an Inupiat subsistence hunter and whaler, and has extensive historical contributions promoting Inupiat subsistence rights as a former board member of the Beluga Whaling Commission, Western Arctic Caribou Herd board member, Pt. Hope city council member, field archeologist and Wildlife and Parks Director. Earl is concerned with climate change, offshore and onshore oil development, and their effects on Indigenous land and subsistence rights. Earl is a member of REDOIL (Resisting Environmental Destruction On Indigenous Lands).

The REDOIL Network consists of grassroots Alaska Natives of the Inupiat, Yupik, Aleut, Tlingit, Gwich'in, Eyak and Denaiana Athabascan tribes who have formed a network to address the human and ecological health impacts of the unsustainable development practices of the fossil fuel industry in Alaska. The REDOIL Network strongly supports self-determination rights of tribes in Alaska as well as a just transition from fossil fuel development and promotes the implementation of sustainable development on or near Indigenous lands. The REDOIL Network is a project of the Indigenous Environmental Network.

"We are concerned in Point Hope that as off-shore seismic surveys continue, the animals we hunt and follow through the seasons are frightened and slowly disappearing from our shores, hurting my people's ability to survive and continue our subsistence traditions and our way of life. I'm really concerned about climate change. We have different kinds of animals coming into our area, and the caribou are impacted."

Topics covered

• Climate Change
• Environmental Consequences of Oil Drilling
• Indigenous Peoples and the Environment
• Offshore oil and gas