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An Interview with Sheila Watt-Cloutier
Northern Quebec, is the Chair of the Inuit Circumpolar Conference, an international organization of Inuit People. Ms Watt-Cloutier has been an influential spokesperson for Inuit on political, environmental and cultural matters. ... the North and the Inuit People. She and her organization have filed a complaint with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to defend the rights of Inuit against the ...
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Polar Bear
People and Polar Bears Historically: For thousands of years, Inuit people have lived with polar bears and occasionally killed them for food or clothing. The Inuit never over-hunted the ...
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Polar Regions
Inuit people of the Arctic, are a marine and land- based people. We still rely upon many animal species to support our age-old hunting, fishing, trapping and gathering economy. But many Inuit ... with respect. Aqqaluk Lynge of Greenland. President, Inuit Circumpolar Conference, 1997 click picture to ... seals, which in turn are eaten by indigenous people. Samuli, Finland When the Exxon Valdez crashed ...
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Adventure Magazine: September/October 2000 @ nationalgeographic.com
Greenland with Inuit hunters, writer Gretel Ehrlich experienced the brutal beauty of Arctic life ... traveling with them for the next three weeks. I think the Inuit were taken aback that I was an American woman traveling ... I began to find the spiritual resources in the darkness. The Inuit people—especially the hunters—have influenced my life, and I see that ...
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Global Green USA
The Federal Building represents the collective efforts of many people-our client, my team, a huge group of consultants, artists, ... make a big impact. By just implementing these smart solutions people could reduce their own global warming pollution by 4000 pounds this year ... lives of those on the edge, whether it is the Inuit people in the Arctic Circle or low-income families in San Francisco ...
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Global Green USA
The expeditions will endeavor to impart an educational message by involving young people. The idea is to prove that young people, symbols of future generations, want to commit themselves to peace and ... worldwide visibility from “the top of the world” about the plight of the indigenous Inuit people whose very way of life is threatened by the impacts of snowmelt attributed to global ...
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High North News 11/96: Russia Defies IWC: Allows Chukotka Inuit to Take Two Bowheads
High North Alliance Russia Defies IWC: Allows Chukotka Inuit to Take Two Bowheads Russian authorities have made ... nor earnings. On a number of fur farms people do not get their wages for more than a ... people”. In the High North Web Library you will find the article “Whales for Foxes from Arctic Circle” by Danish journalist Erik Sander, published in the Inuit Circumpolar Conference booklet Inuit ...
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People of Color Battle Toxics in Communities Across the U.S.
Dr. Mildred McClain, executive director of the People of Color and Disenfranchised Communities Environmental Health Network (PCDCEHN. "The young man ... investigated whether organochlorine exposure is associated with the incidence of infectious diseases in Inuit infants from Nunavik (Arctic Quebec, Canada). We compiled the number of infectious ...
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IWMC.org - Eastern Canadian Bowhead Whale Legally Taken by Inuit Hunters
Bowhead Whale Legally Taken by Inuit Hunters SEARCH MAINPAGE SUSTAINABLE USE eNEWSLETTER MEDIA CENTER ELEPHANTS FISH MAMMALS ... SEA TURTLES SHARKS WHALES Eastern Canadian Bowhead Whale Legally Taken by Inuit Hunters ABOUT IWMC CENSORED CONTACT IWMC EVENTS CALENDAR WEB LINKS ... since the early 1900s. It is significant that Canada allows the People of Nunavut to take their whales, as Canada is careful to ...
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About the People: Looking Both Ways
Categories Ancestors Our History Our Way of Living Our Beliefs Our Family About the Alutiiq People Alutiiq people are Alaska Natives who live in villages, towns, and cities along the southern coast ... now, according to personal preference. The Alutiiq language is similar to Central Yup'ik, an Inuit (Eskimo) language, and for this reason anthropologists have called the Alutiit "Pacific Eskimo." Today's ...
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