When The Caribou Do Not Come

Author : Brenda L. Parlee,Ken J. Caine
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0774831200

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When the Caribou Do Not Come by Brenda L. Parlee,Ken J. Caine Pdf

In the 1990s, headlines about declining caribou populations grabbed international attention. Were caribou the canary in the coal mine for climate change, or did declining numbers reflect overharvesting or failed attempts at scientific wildlife management? Grounded in community-based research in northern Canada, a region in the forefront of co-management efforts, these collected stories and essays bring to the fore the insights of the Inuvialuit, Gwich’in, and Sahtú, people for whom caribou stewardship has been a way of life for centuries. Ultimately, this powerful book drives home the important role that Indigenous knowledge must play in understanding, and coping with, our changing Arctic ecosystems.

Author : Brenda L. Parlee,Ken J. Caine
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780774831215

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When the Caribou Do Not Come by Brenda L. Parlee,Ken J. Caine Pdf

In the 1990s, headlines about declining caribou populations grabbed international attention. Were caribou the canary in the coal mine for climate change, or did declining numbers reflect overharvesting or failed attempts at scientific wildlife management? Grounded in community-based research in northern Canada, a region in the forefront of co-management efforts, these collected stories and essays bring to the fore the insights of the Inuvialuit, Gwich’in, and Sahtú, people for whom caribou stewardship has been a way of life for centuries. Ultimately, this powerful book drives home the important role that Indigenous knowledge must play in understanding, and coping with, our changing Arctic ecosystems.

Author : Suzanne Crawford O'Brien
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781538104767

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Religion and Culture in Native America by Suzanne Crawford O'Brien Pdf

Religion and Culture in Native America presents an introduction to a diverse array of Indigenous religious and cultural practices in North America, focusing on those issues in which tribal communities themselves are currently invested. These topics include climate change, water rights, the protection of sacred places, the reclaiming of Indigenous foods, health and wellness, social justice, and the safety of Indigenous women and girls. Locating such contemporary challenges within their historical, religious, and cultural contexts illuminates how Native communities' responses to such issues are not simply political, but deeply spiritual, informed by sacred traditions, ethical principles, and profound truths. In collaboration with renowned ethnographer and scholar of Native American religious traditions Inés Talamantez, Suzanne Crawford O'Brien abandons classical categories typically found in religious studies textbooks and challenges essentialist notions of Native American cultures to explore the complexities of Native North American life. Key features of this text include: Consideration of Indigenous religious traditions within their historical, political, and cultural contexts Thematic organization emphasizing the concerns and commitments of contemporary tribal communities Maps and images that help to locate tribal communities and illustrate key themes. Recommendations for further reading and research Written in an engaging narrative style, this book makes an ideal text for undergraduate courses in Native American Religions, Religion and Ecology, Indigenous Religions, and World Religions.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. Subcommittee on Fisheries and Wildlife Conservation and the Environment
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1012 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Public lands
ISBN : UOM:39015009051213

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Alaska National Interest Lands by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. Subcommittee on Fisheries and Wildlife Conservation and the Environment Pdf

Author : Allice Legat
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816599660

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Walking the Land, Feeding the Fire by Allice Legat Pdf

In the Dene worldview, relationships form the foundation of a distinct way of knowing. For the Tlicho Dene, indigenous peoples of Canada's Northwest Territories, as stories from the past unfold as experiences in the present, so unfolds a philosophy for the future. Walking the Land, Feeding the Fire vividly shows how—through stories and relationships with all beings—Tlicho knowledge is produced and rooted in the land. Tlicho-speaking people are part of the more widespread Athapaskan-speaking community, which spans the western sub-arctic and includes pockets in British Columbia, Alberta, California, and Arizona. Anthropologist Allice Legat undertook this work at the request of Tlicho Dene community elders, who wanted to provide younger Tlicho with narratives that originated in the past but provide a way of thinking through current critical land-use issues. Legat illustrates that, for the Tlicho Dene, being knowledgeable and being of the land are one and the same. Walking the Land, Feeding the Fire marks the beginning of a new era of understanding, drawing both connections to and unique aspects of ways of knowing among other Dene peoples, such as the Western Apache. As Keith Basso did with his studies among the Western Apache in earlier decades, Legat sets a new standard for research by presenting Dene perceptions of the environment and the personal truths of the storytellers without forcing them into scientific or public-policy frameworks. Legat approaches her work as a community partner—providing a powerful methodology that will impact the way research is conducted for decades to come—and provides unique insights and understandings available only through traditional knowledge.

Author : David George Anderson,David G. Anderson,Mark Nuttall
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1571815759

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Cultivating Arctic Landscapes by David George Anderson,David G. Anderson,Mark Nuttall Pdf

In the last two decades, there has been an increased awareness of the traditions and issues that link aboriginal people across the circumpolar North. One of the key aspects of the lives of circumpolar peoples, be they in Scandinavia, Alaska, Russia, or Canada, is their relationship to the wild animals that support them. Although divided for most of the 20th Century by various national trading blocks, and the Cold War, aboriginal people in each region share common stories about the various capitalist and socialist states that claimed control over their lands and animals. Now, aboriginal peoples throughout the region are reclaiming their rights. This volume is the first to give a well-rounded portrait of wildlife management, aboriginal rights, and politics in the circumpolar north. The book reveals unexpected continuities between socialist and capitalist ecological styles, as well as addressing the problems facing a new era of cultural exchanges between aboriginal peoples in each region.

Author : Vilhjalmur Stefansson
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781473389502

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Hunters Of The Great North by Vilhjalmur Stefansson Pdf

Between 1906 and 1918, anthropologist and explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson went on three long expeditions to the Alaskan and Canadian Arctic. For supplies he relied heavily on local resources, and he adopted the Eskimo way of living, thus successfully demonstrating his theory that the rigors of existence in the Arctic are much reduced by the use of such techniques. In this book, Stefansson tries by means of diaries and memories to tell the story of his first year among the Eskimos.

Author : Colin Scott
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774841085

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Aboriginal Autonomy and Development in Northern Quebec and Labrador by Colin Scott Pdf

The Canadian North is witness to some of the most innovative efforts by Aboriginal peoples to reshape their relations with "mainstream" political and economic structures. Northern Quebec and Labrador are particularly dynamic examples of these efforts, composed of First Nations territories that until the 1970s had never been subject to treaty but are subject to escalating industrial demands for natural resources. The essays in this volume illuminate key conditions for autonomy and development: the definition and redefinition of national territories as cultural orders clash and mix; control of resource bases upon which northern economies depend; and renewal and reworking of cultural identity.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1622 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1920
Category : United States
ISBN : NYPL:33433008741856

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Sundry Civil Appropriation Bill, 1921 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556031211949

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Northeast National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska (NPR-A) by Anonim Pdf

Author : Finis Dunaway
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781469661117

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Defending the Arctic Refuge by Finis Dunaway Pdf

Tucked away in the northeastern corner of Alaska is one of the most contested landscapes in all of North America: the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Considered sacred by Indigenous peoples in Alaska and Canada and treasured by environmentalists, the refuge provides life-sustaining habitat for caribou, polar bears, migratory birds, and other species. For decades, though, the fossil fuel industry and powerful politicians have sought to turn this unique ecosystem into an oil field. Defending the Arctic Refuge tells the improbable story of how the people fought back. At the center of the story is the unlikely figure of Lenny Kohm (1939–2014), a former jazz drummer and aspiring photographer who passionately committed himself to Arctic Refuge activism. With the aid of a trusty slide show, Kohm and representatives of the Gwich'in Nation traveled across the United States to mobilize grassroots opposition to oil drilling. From Indigenous villages north of the Arctic Circle to Capitol Hill and many places in between, this book shows how Kohm and Gwich'in leaders and environmental activists helped build a political movement that transformed the debate into a struggle for environmental justice. In its final weeks, the Trump administration fulfilled a long-sought dream of drilling proponents: leasing much of the Arctic Refuge coastal plain for fossil fuel development. Yet the fight to protect this place is certainly not over. Defending the Arctic Refuge traces the history of a movement that is alive today—and that will continue to galvanize diverse groups to safeguard this threatened land.

Author : Subhankar Banerjee
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012-07-03
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781609803865

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Arctic Voices by Subhankar Banerjee Pdf

"One of the great strengths of Arctic Voices is that it shows how Alaska and the Arctic are tied to the places where most of us live. In this impassioned book, Banerjee shows a situation so serious that it has created a movement, where 'voices of resistance are gathering, are getting louder and louder.' May his heartfelt efforts magnify them. The climate changes that are coming have hit soon and hard in the Arctic, and their consequences may be starkest there."–Ian Frazier, The New York Review of Books A pristine environment of ecological richness and biodiversity. Home to generations of indigenous people for thousands of years. The location of vast quantities of oil, natural gas and coal. Largely uninhabited and long at the margins of global affairs, in the last decade Arctic Alaska has quickly become the most contested land in recent US history. World-renowned photographer, writer, and activist Subhankar Banerjee brings together first-person narratives from more than thirty prominent activists, writers, and researchers who address issues of climate change, resource war, and human rights with stunning urgency and groundbreaking research. From Gwich'in activist Sarah James's impassioned appeal, "We Are the Ones Who Have Everything to Lose," during the UN Climate Conference in Copenhagen in 2009 to an original piece by acclaimed historian Dan O'Neill about his recent trips to the Yukon Flats fish camps, Arctic Voices is a window into a remarkable region. Other contributors include Seth Kantner, Velma Wallis, Nick Jans, Debbie Miller, Andri Snaer Magnason, George Schaller, George Archibald, Cindy Shogan, and Peter Matthiessen.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105050595169

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The American Energy Initiative, Part 4: H.R. , The Jobs and Energy Permitting Act of 2011, Serial No. 112-37, April 13, 2011, 112-1 Hearing, * by Anonim Pdf

Author : Frédéric Laugrand,Jarich Oosten†
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781782384069

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Hunters, Predators and Prey by Frédéric Laugrand,Jarich Oosten† Pdf

Inuit hunting traditions are rich in perceptions, practices and stories relating to animals and human beings. The authors examine key figures such as the raven, an animal that has a central place in Inuit culture as a creator and a trickster, and qupirruit, a category consisting of insects and other small life forms. After these non-social and inedible animals, they discuss the dog, the companion of the hunter, and the fellow hunter, the bear, considered to resemble a human being. A discussion of the renewal of whale hunting accompanies the chapters about animals considered ‘prey par excellence’: the caribou, the seals and the whale, symbol of the whole. By giving precedence to Inuit categories such as ‘inua’ (owner) and ‘tarniq’ (shade) over European concepts such as ‘spirit ‘and ‘soul’, the book compares and contrasts human beings and animals to provide a better understanding of human-animal relationships in a hunting society.

Author : Jim Kjelgaard
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547112891

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Kalak of the Ice by Jim Kjelgaard Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Kalak of the Ice" by Jim Kjelgaard. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.