Pauline Frost, chief of the Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation in northern Yukon, usually looks forward to late January, when the winter sun returns to her Arctic village.

This year, however, feels different to Frost. The predictable return of longer days happens to coincide with something much less predictable, and hugely consequential: Donald Trump's return to the White House.

"There are uncertain times before us," said Frost, from Old Crow, Yukon, where her First Nation is based. 

"It's just so unpre…