Endangered Languages Beyond Boundaries: Proceedings of the 17th FEL Conference
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Author/Creator
Lenore A. Grenoble
Description
Comments on the AILI project which is Indigenous-initiated and driven.
Excerpt from Endangered Languages Beyond Boundaries: Proceedings of the 17th FEL Conference edited by Mary Jane Norris, Erik Anonby, Maire-Okile Junker, Nicholas Ostler and Donna Patrick.
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National Research Conference on Urban Aboriginal Peoples, 2011
Well-being in the Urban Aboriginal Community: [Fostering Biimaadiziwin]
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Vivien Carli
Description
Discusses challenges faced by Indigenous populations and identifies some of the local, national and international initiatives underway to address these issues.
Excerpt from Well-being in the Urban Aboriginal Community: Fostering Biimaadiziwin edited by David Newhouse, Kevin FitzMaurice, Tricia McGuire-Adams, and Daniel Jetté.
Originally presented at the 2011 National Research Conference on Urban Aboriginal Peoples.
Article concludes that it is important to publish failures as well as successes based on a case of conflict between environmental institutions and reindeer owners of the development of a national park.
Writing Postcolonial Histories of Intercultural Education
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Jonas Jakobsen
Description
Comments on the struggle for equal and special rights for the Sami people in the Norwegian education system.
Chapter from Writing Postcolonial Histories of Intercultural Education edited by H. Niedrig and C. Ydesen.
Looks at the recommendations that were generated by youth, researchers, practitioners and policy makers in four workshops during the seminar.
"November 7-8, 2009. Conference Report"
"Plenary paper at the conference The Real California Gold: Indigenous & Immigrant Heritage Languages of California, University of California Davis, May 7-8, 2010."
Études Inuit Studies, vol. 37, no. 2, Développement industriel et impacts miniers / Industrial Development and Mining Impacts, 2013, pp. 145-160
Description
Reports on the fact that Indigenous political participation is territorially defined in Canada but is not in Norway, therefore representation can be diluted.
The Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences, vol. 11, 2013, pp. 1575-1591
Description
Looks at national legislation, international law, and Sámi customary law to review rules involving the legal protection of Sámi culture, Sámi indigenous people and minorities in Norway.
Journal of Family History, vol. 38, no. 2, April 2013, pp. 140-165
Description
Looks at how Sami 80 years and older supported themselves before economic modernization. Uses nineteenth-century census registrations and ethnographic sources.
Looks at the debate regarding the sacralisation of a mountain slated for ski slope development and the role of religion and secular law in the definition of sacred.
Marginalization and Cardiovascular Disease among Rural Sami
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Bent-Martin Eliassen
Marita Melhus
Ketil Lenert Hansen
Ann Ragnhild Broderstad
BMC Public Health, vol. 13, 2013, p. article no. 522
Description
Study showed that marginalised Sami living in Norwegian dominated areas were more than twice as likely than non-marginalised Sami from Sami majority areas to report lifetime cardiovascular disease.
CS 321: Peoples and Cultures of the Circumpolar World I
Module Three: People of the Coast
University of the Arctic – CS 321
[Bachelor of Circumpolar Studies (BCS) 321]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Michel Bouchard
Greg Poelzer
Heather Exner
Ludmilla Zhukova
Jeremei Gabyshev
Ken Coates ... [et al.]]
Description
Overview of traditional livelihoods of the Aleut and Iñupiat of Northern Alaska; the Yupiit and Chukchi of the Russian Far East; the Inuit of Nunavut; the Isertormeeq, Kalaallit and Kujataamiut of Greenland; and the coastal Sami people of the European Far North.
Developed for class delivered by the University of the Arctic.
CS 322: Peoples and Cultures of the Circumpolar World II
Module Four: Changes in Expressions of Cultural Identity in Greenland and Northern Europe
University of the Arctic – CS 322
[Bachelor of Circumpolar Studies (BCS) 322]
[Cultural Identity In Northern Europe And Greenland]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Heather Exner
Greg Poelzer
Tamara Andreyeva
Kristina Fagan
Heather Harris
Terry Wotherspoon ... [et al.]]
Description
Looks at how peoples of Greenland and Northern Europe have used media, literary works, and education to express their Indigenous identities.
Developed for class delivered by the University of the Arctic.
CS 321: Peoples and Cultures of the Circumpolar World I
Module Four: People of the Tundra and Mountains
University of the Arctic – CS 321
[Bachelor of Circumpolar Studies (BCS) 321]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Michel Bouchard
Greg Poelzer
Heather Exner
Ludmilla Zhukova
Jeremei Gabyshev
Ken Coates ... [et al.]]
Description
Discusses the switch from small-scale to large-scale reindeer herding and reasons for the change.
Developed for class delivered by the University of the Arctic.
Module Four: Peoples and Cultures of the Circumpolar North
[Bachelor of Circumpolar Studies (BCS) 100]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Tuula Tuisku
Kathleen Osgood
Description
Describes the peoples of the North, making distinctions between settlement patterns, migration, and assimilation of different ethnic groups.
Developed for class delivered by the University of the Arctic.
CS 321: Peoples and Cultures of the Circumpolar World I
Module Five: Changes Prior to Modern State Formation: Migration, Exploration, Trading and Taxation
University of the Arctic – CS 321
[Bachelor of Circumpolar Studies (BCS) 321]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Michel Bouchard
Greg Poelzer
Heather Exner
Ludmilla Zhukova
Jeremei Gabyshev
Ken Coates ... [et al.]]
Description
Overview of the impact European explorers, traders and settlers had on traditional livelihoods of Indigenous peoples of the circumpolar North.
Developed for class delivered by the University of the Arctic.
CS 322: Peoples and Cultures of the Circumpolar World II
Module Five: Research in the North: Emerging Issues and Practices
University of the Arctic – CS 322
[Bachelor of Circumpolar Studies (BCS) 322]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Heather Exner
Greg Poelzer
Tamara Andreyeva
Kristina Fagan
Heather Harris
Terry Wotherspoon ... [et al.]]
Description
Discusses past and emerging practices, giving examples of projects taking place throughout the circumpolar region.
Developed for class delivered by the University of the Arctic.
CS 321: Peoples and Cultures of the Circumpolar World I
Module Seven: Consolidation
University of the Arctic – CS 321
[Bachelor of Circumpolar Studies (BCS) 321]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Michel Bouchard
Greg Poelzer
Heather Exner
Ludmilla Zhukova
Jeremei Gabyshev
Ken Coates ... [et al.]]
Description
Looks at ways in which governments and social agencies disrupted traditional settlement patterns of northern peoples and effects of industrialization using examples from Canada, Russia, Norway, and Alaska.
Developed for class delivered by the University of the Arctic.
CS 321: Peoples and Cultures of the Circumpolar World I
Module Eight: Self-Determination throughout History
University of the Arctic – CS 321
[Bachelor of Circumpolar Studies (BCS) 321]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Michel Bouchard
Greg Poelzer
Heather Exner
Ludmilla Zhukova
Jeremei Gabyshev
Ken Coates ... [et al.]]
Description
Discusses northern movements for regional and Indigenous autonomy and cultural self-determination. Includes three examples: Greenland, Nunavut, and the Sami people of Northern Europe.
Developed for class delivered by the University of the Arctic.
Nine indicators were used: recognition of land/title, self-government, customary law, and culture; legal affirmation of distinct status, support/ratification for international indigenous rights instruments, affirmative action, upholding and/or signing new treaties, and guarantees of representation/consultation in central government.
Discusses three national museums in Stockholm with different but interconnected collections.
Paper from Conference Current Issues in European Cultural Studies organized by the Advanced Cultural Studies Institute of Sweden, 2011.
Scandinavian Studies, vol. 82, no. 3, Fall, 2010, pp. 257-286
Description
Discusses the stereotypical portrayal of the Finnar (the Sami and the Finns) in various stories. The most negative depiction being Snorri Sturluson's Heimskringla.