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)

A sign seeking election help is displayed on the bulletin board in the community building in Kaktovik, Alaska, Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen)

Alice Aishanna steps into her living room while a CBS News broadcast shows Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris and Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump, Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2024, at her home in Kaktovik, Alaska. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)

The sun rises over the village as a resident walks on a snowy road in Kaktovik, Alaska, Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)

A polar bear and a cub search for scraps in a large pile of bowhead whale bones left from the village's subsistence hunting at the end of an unused airstrip near the village of Kaktovik, Alaska, Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)

Charles Lampe, president of the Kaktovik Inupiat Corporation and a city council member, poses for a portrait outside his home in Kaktovik, Alaska, Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)

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 villager walks through the snow in Kaktovik, Alaska, Monday, Oct. 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)

In blizzard winds, Lee Kayotuk, center, helps unload cargo from the one flight of the day in and out of the village in Kaktovik, Alaska, Thursday, Oct. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)

Alice Aishanna poses for a portrait outside her home displaying several American flags in Kaktovik, Alaska, Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)

A stop sign is seen on Nanook Avenue, a word taken from the Inupiaq word for polar bear, in an undeveloped area at the edge of the village in Kaktovik, Alaska, Monday, Oct. 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)