Northern Review articles from January 2008

Northern Review archives from January 2008

Editorial.
January 1, 2008... From its inception, the Northern Review has endeavoured to provide solid, North-centred scholarship, engaged with issues of significant concern to the people of Arctic and Subarctic regions. The essays and literary material included in the...

Introduction: rapid landscape change and human response in the arctic and subarctic.(Special Collection)(Report)
January 1, 2008... Human development has taken place against a variable climatic and geological backdrop, especially over the last 10,000 years (the Holocene). Dramatic shifts in climate and extreme biophysical events have, throughout time, ensured that nature is...

Rapid landscape changes, their causes, and how they affect human history and culture.(Special Collection: Rapid Landscape Change and Human Response in the Arctic and Subarctic)(Report)
January 1, 2008... Abstract: Despite common knowledge about harmful natural processes and disasters, there appears today to be a widespread belief that somehow if only people would be less destructive in their behaviour with respect to the environment, natural...

The life and death of Kwaday Dan Ts'inchi, an ancient frozen body from British Columbia: clues from remains of plants and animals.(Special Collection: Rapid Landscape Change and Human Response in the Arctic and Subarctic)(Report)
January 1, 2008... Abstract: The body of a prehistoric Aboriginal man (Kwaday Dan Ts'inchi, LongAgo Person Found) was recovered in 1999 from a melting glacier in northwestern British Columbia. The frozen man was lying at 1,600 metres above sea level and about...

Climate, society, and natural hazards: changing hazard exposure in two Nunavut communities.(Special Collection: Rapid Landscape Change and Human Response in the Arctic and Subarctic)(Report)
January 1, 2008... Abstract: This article analyzes changing exposure of Inuit to environmental hazards in two Nunavut communities. One hundred and twelve interviews were conducted in Arctic Bay and Igloolik to identify the environmental hazards to which people...

The domino effect: culture change and environmental change in Newfoundland, 1500-1100 cal BP.(Special Collection: Rapid Landscape Change and Human Response in the Arctic and Subarctic)(Report)
January 1, 2008... Abstract: This article examines the relationship between culture change and climate change in Newfoundland at 1500-1100 cal BP, a period during which two cultural groups lived there, Dorset Palaeoeskimos and Recent Indians. Dorset Palaeoeskimos...

Rapid landscape change, vulnerability, and social responsibility.(Special Collection: Rapid Landscape Change and Human Response in the Arctic and Subarctic)(Report)
January 1, 2008... Abstract: In this article I explore the relation between vulnerability to rapid landscape change, on the one hand, and conceptions of land and responsibility for landscape, on the other. I begin by briefly discussing the notion of vulnerability...

Perpetual perishing, perpetual renewal.(Special Collection: Rapid Landscape Change and Human Response in the Arctic and Subarctic)(Report)
January 1, 2008... Abstract: Darwinian nature is in dialectic: conflict and resolution. Human-life evolved out of such dialectical nature. If that began in Africa, it continues when humans migrate far North. Religious encounters with such nature, whatever their...

The need to conduct studies of Swedish Saami reindeer-herder subsistence behaviours: a case of indigenous resource-use rights.(General Articles)(Report)
January 1, 2008... Abstract: Although much is known about Swedish Saami reindeer herding, one area that has received little attention is traditional subsistence activities that support modern herding families and provide a means of cultural survival. This article...

The oral tradition is like the Mackenzie Delta.(General Articles)(Report)
January 1, 2008... 1 There are many channels, many currents, the occasional whirlpool and much shoal water, willow-covered islands and muskrat ponds and oxbows and sandbars and walls of black spruce and unseen deadheads, there in the Mackenzie Delta. The...

Questioning Mine Mill in Yellowknife: the need for a northern labour history.(General Articles)(Northwest Territories)(Report)
January 1, 2008... Abstract: This article chronicles the contributions of the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers to the social, political and economic development of Canada's Northwest Territories, and particularly its capital Yellowknife. A...

Testing, testing, testing: rural and urban responses to Alaska's high-stakes assessment regime.(General Articles)(Report)
January 1, 2008... Abstract: Under both federal legislation called No Child Left Behind (NCLB) and state legislation, Alaska students now take tests to determine whether they have made "adequate yearly progress" (AYP) and are qualified to graduate from high...

Counsellor training via distance education: opportunities for rural Alaskan communities.(General Articles)(Report)
January 1, 2008... Abstract: This article focuses on the benefits of utilizing a distance education format for school and community counsellor education and training in rural Alaska. The authors highlight the need for distance education options in rural...

Village public safety officer turnover and reported violent crime in Alaska Native villages.(General Articles)(Report)
January 1, 2008... Abstract: Since its inception in the early 1980s as a response to high rates of accidental and intentional injury deaths in isolated Alaska Native villages, the Village Public Safety Officer (VPSO) program has faced tremendously high levels of...

The first Inuit autobiography: Text and Context(s).(The Diary of Abraham Ulrikab: Text and Context)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... An extended book review of The Diary of Abraham Ulrikab: Text and Context. Hartmut Lutz, editor and head translator (Alootook Ipellie, foreword and cover art; Hans-Ludwig Blohm, photos). Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2005. xxvii & 100 pp....