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• Voices of the Caribou People

  

  July 31, 2009  1,749 views 4 comments Share

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  Voices of the Caribou People is a video-based project about the lives and challenges of Caribou People: Indigenous communities who maintain a traditional relationship with Caribou. Conducted as part of CARMA’s ongoing research on caribou and people, the project, which first set out in the summer of 2008, aims to gather knowledge from Caribou communities, [...]

  Filed Under alaska • Gwitchin • indigenous • Inuit • Inupiat • Naskapi • Tlicho • Traditions • video

• The Indigenous People’s Summit on Climate Change

  

  April 20, 2009  1,387 views 0 Comments Share

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  More than 500 Indigenous delegates and observers from around the world have gathered in Anchorage, Alaska, to take part in the Indigenous People’s Global Summit on Climate Change. For duration of the Summit, participants discussed a range of issues, including Carbon Markets and REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries) [...]

  Filed Under alaska • coal • Energy • events • forestry • indigenous • Inuit • nuclear waste • REDD • Tar sands • video

• Greenland Inuit Denied Ancestral Right to the Land

  

  March 5, 2009  2,080 views 0 Comments Share

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  A group of five Inuit gemstone collectors in Greenland, who were banned from collecting or trading rubies from their traditional lands in 2007, are currently looking for international support in their peaceful struggle to regain their artisan mining rights. They call themselves the 16th August Union — August 16th marking the day when the Greenland Bureau [...]

  Filed Under business • Canada • Inuit • mining • petition • tradition

• Deal signed for a ‘new indigenous government’ in Quebec

  

  December 7, 2007  1,721 views 0 Comments Share

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  An agreement in principle was signed on Wednesday between the governments of Canada and Quebec, the Makivik Corporation and indigenous representatives for a new “semi-autonomous Inuit government” (or perhaps more accurately, “experimental municipal government”) in Northern Quebec.. Basically, the plan is to enjoin the existing Kativik regional government, the area school board and regional [...]

  Filed Under Canada • indigenous • Inuit • land

• Silent Snow

  

  December 1, 2007  1,733 views 0 Comments Share

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  Silent Snow is feature length documentary about a “silent assassin” in the far north: Pollution. Pesticides like DDT and other chemicals from around the world travel northbound, to Inuit land, where it accumulates, slowly poisoning both humans and animals.From silentsnow.org: Against a background of melting ice Silent Snow focuses on a prelude to a [...]

  Filed Under environment • Inuit • land • toxins • video

• Who has sovereignty over the Arctic? Russia, Canada, America?

  

  August 27, 2007  2,625 views 0 Comments Share

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  Invoking the 15th century legal procedure we know as the Doctrine of Discovery, on August 2nd a Russian submarine placed a titanium Russian Flag on the Arctic seabed under the north pole, claiming sovereign ownership of the resources in the region, which includes an estimated 10 billion tons of oil and gas. As discussed in some [...]

  Filed Under colonialism • Energy • indigenous • Inuit • land • oil • sovereignty