Children stop to talk with friends on a snowmobile as they play in the snow after school in the village of Kaktovik, Alaska, Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)

A pair of small boats sit in a blizzard in Kaktovik, Alaska, Thursday, Oct. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)

Johnny, 7, holds his pellet gun for warding away polar bears as he goes out to play with other children after school in Kaktovik, Alaska, Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)

An ermine runs through the snow with its catch near a villager's ATV as night falls in Kaktovik, Alaska, Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)

Postmaster Angel Akootchook, the village's only full-time postal employee, hands a stack of mail to a resident in Kaktovik, Alaska, Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)

A resident walks with their child past the village's post office in Kaktovik, Alaska, Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)

FILE - Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi of Calif., left, administers the House oath of office to Rep. Mary Peltola, D-Alaska, accompanied by her husband Eugene "Buzzy" Peltola Jr., center, during a ceremonial swearing-in on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2022. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Polar bears and the Inupiaq word for "Kaktovik" are painted on a shipping container in the village of Kaktovik, Alaska, Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)