Drawing on a two-decade-long community-partnered ethnographic fieldwork with Iñupiat in Arctic Alaska, this chapter explores how humanistic approaches, informed by the Indigenous environmental humanities, assist researchers in fostering a reciprocal relationship with Indigenous communities and contributes to the local initiatives to pursue decolonization of knowledge production. Facilitating the cultural immersion of researchers into Indigenous communities, humanistic approaches help us deeply delve into local residents’ emotions and expressive culture to seek out interrelatedness of people and the environment; in so doing, such methods facilitate vital and reciprocal relationship-building with Indigenous stakeholders. This chapter also highlights that it is through the social process that resilience and adaptation emerge, a dynamic that reinforces Indigenous sovereignty and enables cultural survival. All stories and episodes from my work demonstrate how the people remember, cope with, narrate, and respond to climatic and environmental changes through culturally specific activities such as whaling, storytelling, dancing and drumming, political engagement, alliance-building, and the purposeful revitalization of traditions. Collectively, these experiences and aspirations tell a tale of community resilience, and also of a vibrant humanity coping with an uncertain future.