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Overview of Ongoing Cohort and Dietary Studies in the Arctic

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Pál Weihe
Peter Bjerregaard
Eva Bonefeld-Jøgensen
Alexey Dudarev
Jónrit Halling ... [et al.]
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 75, Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Program, 2016, pp. 1-12
Overview of primary results from several research studies on population health from Russia, Norway, Greenland, Finland, Sweden and Canada.
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Overview of the Social Transition in the North Project 1995-1998

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Rachel Mason
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 63, Supplement 1, 2004, pp. 5-12
Describes how the Social Transition in the North (STN) study assessed the epidemiological, demographic and domestic changes in northern communities.
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Parallel Information Concerning the Situation of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights of Indigenous Small-numbered Peoples of the North, Siberia and the Far East of the Russian Federation

Alternate Title
The Fifth Periodic Report of the Russian Federation to the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
IWGIA
Submitted at the 46th Session of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, May 2-20, 2011.
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Perspectives on Sámi Mathematics Education

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Anne Birgitte Fyhn
Ellen J. Sara Eira
Bharath Sriraman
Interchange, vol. 42, no. 2, Circumpolar Indigenous Issues, Knowledge, Relations to Education, Science and Mathematics, May 2011, pp. 185-203
Discusses three examples of Sámi mathematics which could be part of a possible Sámi mathematics syllabus.
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Pimachesowin for the Sakha (Yakut) People of Northeastern Siberia + Кри норуот Пимачисуин өйдөбүлэ Сибиир хотугулуу-илин Саха норуотугар

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Mariia Iakovleva
Northern Review, vol. 53, Indigenous Self-Determination through Mitho Pimachesowin: Perspectives from Northern Saskatchewan, 2022, pp. 39-51

Examines the parallels between the Sakha concept Aiyy Yorege and the Cree word Pimachesowin towards each group's journey to self-determination. 

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Potential Future Studies on the Nutritional Status Among Indigenous Peoples in Alaska and the Russian Far East: Preliminary Assessment of the Social Transition in the North Data Set

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kari J. Hamrick
Janell Smith
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 63, Supplement 1, 2004, pp. 43-48
Survey findings revealed that American respondents perceive themselves as healthier, consuming more of their food intake as subsistence protein.
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Producing the "Others": The Development of Kraevedenie in Chukotka

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Sofia Gavrilova
Etudes Inuit Studies, vol. 45, no. 1/2, Chukotka: Understanding the Past, Contemporary Practices, and Perceptions of the Present, 2021, pp. 147-170

Examines kraevedcheskii (local history) museums and how they reflect the Indigenous population.

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Publishing Sámi Literature—from Christian Translations to Sámi Publishing Houses

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kirsti Paltto
Rauna Kuokkanen
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 22, no. 2, 2010, pp. 42-58
Looks at the challenges of publishing in the Sámi languages; the foundation of Sámi literature from oral tradition to written language; early Sámi authors; the Sámi Writers’ Association; and the emergence of Sámi publishing houses. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 42.
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Qayaq. Kayaks of Alaska and Siberia

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
David W. Zimmerly
Paul Gardinier
Arctic, vol. 55, no. 1, March 2002, p. 94
Book review of: QAYAQ : Kayaks of Alaska and Siberia by David W. Zimmerly and Paul Gardinier.
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A Rare Case of Warrdenburg Syndrome with Unilateral Hearing Loss Caused by Nonsense Variant c.772C>T (p.Arg259*) in the MITF Gene in Yakut Patient from the Eastern Siberia (Sakha Republic, Russia)

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Nikolay A. Barashkov
Georgii P. Romanov
Uigulaana P. Borisova
Aisen V. Solovyev
Vera G. Pshennikova ... [et al.]
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 78, no. 1, 2019
Study confirm the association of pathogenic variants in the MITF gene with WS type 2 and expanded data on the variability of audiological features of the WS.
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[Recensions/Book Reviews]

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Virginie Vaté
Études Inuit Studies, vol. 26, no. 2, Populations et Migrations / Populations and Migrations, 2002, pp. 204-207
Book review of: The Flying Tiger: Women Shamans and Storytellers of the Amur by Kira Van Deusen. Review in French.
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[Recensions / Book Reviews]

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Willem J. de Reuse
Études Inuit Studies, vol. 26, no. 2, Populations et Migrations / Populations and Migrations, 2002, pp. [194]-196
Book review of: A Practical Grammar of the St. Lawrence Island / Siberian Yupik Eskimo Language (2nd edition) by Steven A. Jacobson.
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[Recensions/Book Reviews]

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Virginie Vaté
Études Inuit Studies, vol. 27, no. 1-2, Architecture Paléoesquimaude / Palaeoeskimo Architecture, 2003, pp. 528-532
Book review of: Siberian Survival: The Nenets and Their Story by Andrei V. Golovnev and Gail Osherenko. Review in French.
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Regulating Multilingualism in the North Calotte: The Case of Kven, Meänkieli and Sámi Languages

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Sari Pietikäinen
Leena Huss
Sirkka Laihiala-Kankainen
Ulla Aikio-Puoskari
Pia Lane
Acta Borealis, vol. 27, no. 1, June 2010, pp. 1-23
Studies language relations by looking at the historical, ideological, and political process used in language revitalization focusing on political and legal instruments of change.
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Reindeer Returning from Combat: War Stories among the Nenets of European Russia

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Stephan Dudeck
Arctic Anthropology, vol. 55, no. 1, pp. 73-90
Examines the role that the setting and the audience play in a telling of an oral history, the Nenet way of storytelling, and the differences between the Nenet oral history of participation in the Second World War and the public discourse surrounding the same.
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Reindeer Slaughter: Meat and Flavor Production in Chukotka

Alternate Title
L’abattage des rennes : Production de viande et de saveurs en Tchoukotka
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Elena Davydova
Vladimir Davydov
Etudes Inuit Studies, vol. 45, no. 1/2, Chukotka: Understanding the Past, Contemporary Practices, and Perceptions of the Present, 2021, pp. 233-257

Examines the connection between traditional hunter and animal relations and how it reflects on the flavour of hunting meat. 

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Resettlement, Resistance, and Coastal Niches on the Chukchi Peninsula

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Caroline Damiens
Etudes Inuit Studies, vol. 45, no. 1/2, Chukotka: Understanding the Past, Contemporary Practices, and Perceptions of the Present, 2021, pp. 93-120

Looks at the relocation of the Siberian Indigenous populations and how they reestablished their communities in their new coastal environments. 

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Resource Development and Well-Being in Northern Canada

Alternate Title
ReSDA Gap Analysis Report ; no.7
Resource Development and Well-Being in Northern Canada: Myth or Opportunity
Resources and Sustainable Development in the Arctic Workshop Report ; no.7
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Brenda Parlee
Discusses if resource development will improve the well-being of people in the northern communities or add to the growing gap between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people.
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Results of an Arctic Council Survey on Water and Sanitation Services in the Arctic

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jonathan M. Bressler
Thomas W. Hennessy
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 77, 2018, p. article no. 1421368
One hundred and forty-two participants from seven Arctic nations described the current status of water, sanitation and hygiene services (WASH), including access to services, notification requirements for water-related infectious diseases, and examples of environmental-change events which impacted provision of services.
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The Role of Skis and Skiing in the Settlement of Early Scandinavia

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
John Weinstock
Northern Review, no. 25/26, Governance in the Provincial Norths, Summer, 2005, pp. 172-196
Looks at the early history of skiing from the beginning in the Stone Age to a time only a few centuries ago with a focus on the role of Sami contributions.
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Russia and the North

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Elisa Burchert
Northern Review, no. 33, Canadas Role in the Circumpolar World, Spring, 2011, pp. 135-138
Book review of: Russia and the North edited by Elana Wilson Rowe.
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“The Russians Are Coming”: U.S.–Soviet Collaboration in the Study of the Prehistory of Beringia during the Cold War—Joint Excavations in the Aleutian Islands, 1974

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Aleksandr K. Konopatsky
Yaroslav V. Kuzmin
Richard L. Bland
Arctic Anthropology, vol. 54, no. 1, 2017, pp. 72-89
Focuses on diary entries made by Aleksandr K. Konopatsky during the two month expedition which contain factual information, observations, expressions, and descriptions of situations that illustrate the atmosphere of joint work of scholars from the two countries.
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The Saami and the National Parliaments: Channels for Political Influence

Alternate Title
Case Study / Parliament / Saami
Gáldu Čála ; no. 2, 2007
The Sami and the National Parliaments
E-Books
Author/Creator
Eva Josefsen
Revised edition of article published by IWGIA in Challenging Politics: Indigenous People's Experiences with Political Parties and Elections edited by Kathrin Wessendorf. Also published as no. 2, 2007 of the journal Gáldu Čála.
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Sacred Sites and Sanctuaries in Northern Russia

Alternate Title
Properties of Culture - Culture as Property: Pathways to Reform in Post-Soviet Siberia
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Alona Yefimenko
Looks at project started to conserve Arctic biodiversity and cultural heritage. Chapter in book: Properties of Culture - Culture as Property: Pathways to Reform in Post-Soviet Siberia edited by Erich Kasten.
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Sakha Pop Music and Ethnicity

Alternate Title
Properties of Culture - Culture as Property: Pathways to Reform in Post-Soviet Siberia
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Aimar Ventsel
Chapter in book: Properties of Culture - Culture as Property: Pathways to Reform in Post-Soviet Siberia edited by Erich Kasten. Discusses different layers of culture and the link to a ethnicity in the Republic of Sakha, Russia.
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Samenet: The Sami Information and Communication Network

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Henrik Micael Kuhmunen
Indigenous Affairs, no. 2, Indigenous People and Information Technology, 2003, pp. 44-46
Describes the history of communication and technology and impacts on the Sámi people. To access this article scroll down to page 44.
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