History and Culture

"When undertaking developmental or other activities of any nature, planners and decision-makers must not simply view the Arctic as an exploitable frontier ...Northern development must refer to more than economic growth. It must allow for and facilitate spiritual, social, and cultural development."

Inuit Circumpolar Conference

Introduction

• Seeking the Past: An Archaeological Journey - Norman Chance
• In Pursuit of Progress: A Colonial Narrative - Norman Chance
• Circumpolar History Timetables - Amanda Graham
• Peopling of Siberia - Smithsonian Institution

Euro-American Portrayals

• Fixing History: A Contemporay Examination of an Arctic Journal from the 1850s - Ethnohistory [2002] - Nancy Fogel-Chance
• The Fate of Franklin - Museum of the Cultural Histories of Arctic Exploration, Russell A. Potter
• Matthew Hensen - African-American Arctic Explorer
• Henry Hudson - 17th century English explorer & adventurer
• " The Big Sickness" - Influenza epidemic at Wales, Alaska
• Robert Flaherty's "Nanook of the North" - One World Magazine
• Geographic Exploration in Northern Russia [18th through 20th centuries] - Arctic Voice [Russia]
• The Presbyterian Church in Alaska
• Arctic Whaling - New Bedford Whaling Museum
• Hudson Bay Company Archives
• America, Russia, and the Meeting of Frontiers: - U.S. Library of Congress
• Vikings: The North Atlantic Saga - National Museum of Natural History [U.S.]

Indigenous Responses

• Subsistence Values and Ethics - Finn Lynge
• Freedom of Expression or Freedom of Exploitation? - Martha Flaherty
• Colonialism in Greenland: An Inuit Perspective - Robert Petersen
• Yupiaq Education Revisited - Angayuqaq Oscar Kawagley
• One Alaska Native's Perspective on Marine Contamination - Larry Merculieff
• Inuit Circumpolar Conference
• Traditional Ecological Knowledge
• Voices from the Bay - Miriam McDonald, Lucassie Arragutainaq, and Zack Novalinga
• Kuuvafmiut Subsistence: Traditional Eskimo Life in the Latter Twentieth Century
  

Ethnographic Portraits

• An Introduction to Northern Peoples - Norman Chance
• The Haida of British Columbia
• The Inupiat of Arctic Alaska
• The Inuusivut [Inuit] of Canada
• The Crees of Northern Quebec
• The Dogrib of Canada's Northwest Territories
• The Inuit Tapirisat of Canada
• Peoples of the Russian North and Far East
• The Sámi of Far Northern Europe
• The Inuit of Greenland
• Aleut - People of the Aleutian Chain
• Innu of Labrador and Quebec
• Tlingit of the Northwest Coast
• The People of Iceland - Icelandic Educational Network

Updated: June 20, 2007