Northern Lights-seen them live?

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I was in the far Arctic, in Iqaluit, capital city (town) for territory of Nunavut. I was yes, on Baffin Island. Last 2 photos in this blog post... I was there for 2 days. Remaining 8 hrs. was stuck at the tiny airport, with everyone else while a winter blizzard blew in at 180 km. /hr. It was so windy that the plane could not land properly ...and had to fly 200 km. west to land at another town area.

The Inuit have a big vocabulary to describe different snow...conditions, qualities, etc. Like the Mongolians, who have a horse culture, where there are a lot of horse related words and slang. (Some people realize that Asians have different words to describe "rice", the types, quality of the grain, the products derived, and slang/idiomatic expressions.)
I believe I bought a book on the language of Inuit as it relates to natural phenomena and natural world. Right now it's in Vancouver.

In 2003, when I was there (for a job interview), afterwards, I went to the general store to see if I could buy some books written by locals. Not surprisingly it was just academic/scholarly texts, not autobiographies in English by the Inuit. Their language became written only the last few hundred years (I think). It's probably living in survival mode and adjusting to a rapidly changing way of life, they have no time to reflect and write. It reminds of the Vietnamese boat refugees who came to North America. Stories of their experiences written by them in English (or French), didn't appear for the general public, until 20 years later....

I did buy a soapstone narwhale whale with whalebone horn, from local craftspeople who will schlep their stuff to you in the local restaurant. The owner allows it for the locals to make money.

I was driven to a tiny suburban hamlet with a one-way 30 km. road. All around was snowy tundra. It was awesome, yet scary. No wonder why people die, easily lost in snowstorms.

While hanging out at the airport, I met an Inuit mother carrying her 1 yr. child in her amauti (in the hood of her Inuit-style jacket/tunic). They were taking plane flight 1,000 km. south to Ottawa to have surgery for his clubfoot. Access to doctor /health care services is serious problem in the far Arctic. Stuff we don't hear in southern Canada. Imagine living a town of 1,000 and there are NO roads. Not anywhere near a river nor water body. Just tundra or snow.