Since the late 1990s, scientists and environmental activists have blamed the hunting lifestyle of the Inuit for the decline of certain animal populations in Greenland. However, indigenous peoples still hold a special status in ecological discourse, as they are believed to practice a resource-conserving approach to natural goods from the animal and plant worlds. Protecting nature versus Greenlandic collective identity: Kalaalimernit - the Greenlandic term for local food - becomes a contested terrain. Frank Sowa traces how global models of "nature," "indigeneity," and "(national) culture" increasingly structure the agency of local actors.