Russia

Describes how the Lule Sami people obtained Sami status in Norway in the 1970s.

Addresses the instinct to oversimplify someone else's culture.

Article describes the Nanai people's myths that tell about the origins of some of their ancestors from the animal kingdom.

Political Science Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Alberta, 1996.

Using the Sami people as an example, argues that political decolonization is important for realizing self-determination, reconnecting with culture, and becoming intellectually self-governing.

Aims to present written account of bear's role in cultural, spiritual, and material life of the people.

Discusses importance of transnational autonomy in the context of the Indigenous people of Sweden, Norway, Finland and Russia and the non-Indigenous people living in Central and Eastern Europe and the Balkans.

Indigenous Studies Thesis (MPhil.)--The Arctic University of Norway, 2014.

On discharge, patients and therapists completed questionnaire rating self-defined ethnicity, how ethnicity was perceived by others, and use of language in variety of situations.

Examines Soviet state policy and attitudes of indigenous communities towards endangerment of minority languages.

Show how state security and economic development have influenced Russia's minority policies.

Discusses the substanial problems facing indigenous peoples living near international borders.

History of the remote Russian settlement, located on the Chukotka Peninsula, where the Bering Strait meets the Arctic Ocean.

Examines the results of combining two registries from Murmansk County and Norway and Archangelsk County to address the gap from defects not detectable at birth like hearing and mental illness and physicians improper recording.

Article examines the results of the pilot project staged for the Lake Imandra watershed in the Kola Peninsula in Russia.

Indigenous Studies Thesis (M.Phil.)--University of Tromsø, 2012.

Speaks about cultural tradition, interpretation and concepts of ownership. Introduction from: Properties of Culture - Culture as Property: Pathways to Reform in Post-Soviet Siberia edited by Erich Kasten.

Looks at the exploitation of Sami reindeer herding through ethnographic tourism in Kola Peninsula, Northwest Russia.

Comments on a conference held to assess the status of the Inuit and Eskimo languages and to study the impact of educational and other maintenance policies. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 19.

Comments on women's newspaper which promotes the issues, challenges, and activity concerning women's lives.

Examines the identity of coastal sea-mammal hunters of Chukotka.

Argues that this group is not homogeneous, but has several sources of social conflict: generational, gender, siyt, worldviews, and contrasting attitudes about the settlement of Lovozero and the rest of the population.

Brief article explores the various Yupik language instruction courses offered in Chukotka and comments on the teaching materials being used.

Book review of: Yupik Transitions by Igor Krupnik and Michael Chlenov.

Book review of Yupik Transitions by Igor Krupnik and Michael Chlenov.

Book review of: Yuungnaqpiallerput by Ann Fienup-Riordan. Scroll to page 435 to read review.