Northern Review articles from June 22 2005

Northern Review archives from June 22 2005

A Tour of Duty in the Pacific Northwest: E.A. Porcher and H.M.S. Sparrowhawk, 1865-1868.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... A Tour of Duty in the Pacific Northwest: E.A. Porcher and H.M.S. Sparrowhawk, 1865-1868 edited and annotated by Dwight L. Smith. Fairbanks, Alaska: University of Alaska Press, 2000. xvii, 172 pp., illustrations, maps. ISBN 1-889963-06-2 (hc)....

Northern Lights Against POPs: Combatting Toxic Threats in the Arctic.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Northern Lights Against POPs: Combatting Toxic Threats in the Arctic edited by David Leonard Downie and Terry Fenge. Published for the Inuit Circumpolar Conference Canada by McGillQueen's University Press, 2003. xiv, 347 pp. Appendices include...

An Apostle of the North: Memoirs of the Right Reverend William Carpenter Bompas.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... An Apostle of the North: Memoirs of the Right Reverend William Carpenter Bompas by H. A. Cody. Introduction by William R. Morrison and Kenneth S. Coates. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2002. Western Canada Reprint Series No. 7. xi, 391...

Changing Tracks: Predators and Politics in Mt. McKinley National Park.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Changing Tracks: Predators and Politics in Mt. McKinley National Park by Timothy Rawson. Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 2001. xiii, 326 pp., maps, illustrations, index. USS 24.95 (pb). ISBN 1-889963-17-8. Changing Tracks is an...

The Elder's Palace, Iniqnirit Qalgiat.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... The Elder's Palace, Iniqnirit Qalgiat by Margo Button with Natasha Thorpe. Translated by Mary Kaosoni. Lantzville, BC: Oolichan Books, 2002. iv, 60 pp. CA$14.95 (pb). ISBN 088982-214-X. An unusual collaboration between cultures has resulted...

Effective local institutions for collective action in Arctic communities (1).(Northern Notes)
June 22, 2005... Introduction State and local government programs serving Native communities have long been criticized for being unresponsive to local needs, for being impervious to local involvement, and for fostering a culture of dependency. In response,...

Nunavut: Inuit Regain Control of Their Lands and Their Lives.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Nunavut: Inuit Regain Control of Their Lands and Their Lives edited by Jens Dahl, Jack Hicks and Peter Jull. IWGIA Document 102. Copenhagen: International Working Group on Indigenous Affairs, 2000. USS 16.00. ISBN 87-90730-34-8. Nunavut:...

Arctic Justice: On Trial for Murder, Pond Inlet, 1923.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Arctic Justice: On Trial for Murder, Pond Inlet, 1923 by Shelagh D. Grant. McGill-Queen's Native and Northern Studies series. Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2002. xxii, 346 pp., illustrations, maps, bibliography, index....

Alone in Silence: European Women in the Canadian North Before 1940.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Alone in Silence: European Women in the Canadian North Before 1940 by Barbara E. Kelcey. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001. McGill-Queen's Native and Northern Series 27. 248 pp., illustrations, maps, notes,...

Inuit Journey: The Co-operative Adventure in Canada's North.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Inuit Journey: The Co-operative Adventure in Canada's North by Edith Iglauer. Madeira Park, BC: Harbour Publishing, 2000. 250 pp., photographs. CA$18.95 (pb). ISBN 1-55017-223-9. Harbour Publishing has brought out a new edition of Edith...

Ice Window: Letters from a Bering Strait Village, 1892-1902.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Ice Window: Letters from a Bering Strait Village 1892-1902 edited by Kathleen Lopp Smith and Verbeck Smith. Foreword by Dorothy Jean Ray. Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 2002. 392 pp., photographs, illustrations, maps, notes,...

Alaska: An American Colony.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Alaska: An American Colony by Stephen Haycox. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2002. 392 pp., illustrations, photographs, maps, bibliography, index. US$ 29.95 (hc). ISBN 0-295-95249-7. Over the past decade, the study of the American...

Alaska: An American Colony.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Alaska: An American Colony by Stephen Haycox. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2002. 392 pp., illustrations, photographs, maps, bibliography, index. US$ 29.95 (hc). ISBN 0-295-95249-7. As a recent migrant to Alaska, I have thought...

Where the Echo Began and Other Oral Traditions from Southwestern Alaska.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Where the Echo Began and Other Oral Traditions from Southwestern Alaska recorded by Hans Himmelheber, translated by Kurt and Ester Vitt and edited by Ann Fienup-Riordan. xxxvi, 220 pp., photographs, maps, notes, bibliography, index. Fairbanks:...

Permafrost: A Guide to Frozen Ground in Transition.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Permafrost: A Guide to Frozen Ground in Transition by Neil Davis. Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 2001. xvi, 351 pp., photographs, illustrations, maps, appendices, glossary, bibliography, index. USS 35.95 (hc). ISBN 1-889963-19-4. ...

Many Faces of Gender: Roles and Relationships Through Time in Indigenous Northern Communities.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Many Faces of Gender: Roles and Relationships Through Time in Indigenous Northern Communities, edited by Lisa Frink, Rita S. Shepard and Gregory A. Reinhardt. Calgary and Boulder: University of Calgary Press and University of Colorado...

Water, gold and obscurity: British Columbia's Bullion Pit.(Contributions to Understanding the North)
June 22, 2005... Introduction The Bullion Pit is an immense but curiously obscure abandoned gold mine in the Cariboo region of British Columbia, Canada. It is relatively unknown, even within its region and province, receives few visitors, and has not been...

The role of skis and skiing in the settlement of early Scandinavia.(Contributions to Understanding the North)
June 22, 2005... Introduction Skiing as a modern sport spread from Norway in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to other countries where there was snow during some portion of the year. Many people had read Fridtjof Nansen's account of his...

Eddie with FAS: getting what he needs in a remote Alaskan community.(Contributions to Understanding the North)(Fetal Alcohol Syndrome)
June 22, 2005... Introduction When Eddie was delivered, doctors immediately suspected that he had been prenatally exposed to alcohol. They did not, however, give him a diagnosis of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS). During a routine home visit three weeks...

Globalization and development in a post-nomadic hunter-gatherer village: the case of Arctic Village, Alaska.(Contributions to Understanding the North)
June 22, 2005... Introduction The evolving development of a global economy and society is increasingly affecting the Indigenous communities of the North, as Alaskan and Canadian First Nations, among others, settle in permanent villages, enter the wage...

Literatura borealis: circumpolar themes in the work of Nils-Aslak Valkeapaa.(Contributions to Understanding the North)
June 22, 2005... When some day--as I do believe--the cultures of Arctic peoples are researched as a whole, we will be astonished by all they have in common. Not only externally, but also spiritually. Which brings up thoughts about the connections among Arctic...

The tailings of Canadian politics: the North-South political divide.(Special Collection: Governance in the Provincial Norths)
June 22, 2005... Regionalism continues to be a central concern of scholars of Canadian politics. Most scholars focus on Western alienation, Quebec separatism, or Atlantic economic disparities. Yet little attention has been given to the North-South political...

A modest proposal?: diversity and the challenge of governance in northern Alberta.(Special Collection: Governance in the Provincial Norths)
June 22, 2005... "It's very interesting to see the disposable camera pictures of Chukotka in Russia and from northern Alberta because it looks like exactly the same landscape, and in some ways it is. The peoples are also the same in many ways. And we also have...

Municipal governance for northern communities: perspectives from Saskatchewan.(Special Collection: Governance in the Provincial Norths)
June 22, 2005... Introduction What is the condition of municipal governance in northern communities in Saskatchewan? Is it adequate to meet the needs of northern communities in light of traditional and emerging challenges? If not, what can be done to...

A comparison of North-South and West-East differences in political attitudes in Canada.(Special Collection: Governance in the Provincial Norths)
June 22, 2005... Abstract Using data from the 2000 Canadian Election Study, this paper compares differences in political values and attitudes from west to east with corresponding differences from north to south. On social issues, the West is not generally...

Some thoughts on a Northern Ministry for British Columbia.(Special Collection: Governance in the Provincial Norths)
June 22, 2005... For at least the past two decades students of political structures have lamented that British Columbia lags badly behind other provinces in developing government structures and agencies to address specifically northern issues. The gap between...

Local government in northern British Columbia: competing or cooperating?(Special Collection: Governance in the Provincial Norths)
June 22, 2005... It is more or less traditional for residents of northern British Columbia to bemoan their lack of influence over provincial policies and to encourage the devolution of power to northern agencies, generally with little effect. Over the years,...

Federalism in the Russian provincial Norths: lessons for Nunavik?(Special Collection: Governance in the Provincial Norths)
June 22, 2005... The task of accommodating northern, First Nations and Aboriginal demands for autonomy within an existing federal structure is just one of the many challenges facing Canada's provincial governments. Historically, the provinces have been...

Reconciliation in Northern British Columbia?: future prospects for Aboriginal--newcomer relations.(Special Collection: Governance in the Provincial Norths)
June 22, 2005... Introduction Reconciliation has become a prominent socio-political theme in many liberal democracies around the world. Governments and dominant societies, driven by what one scholar has called "the guilt of nations," (1) have gradually...

Still forgotten?: the politics and communities of the provincial Norths.(Special Collection: Governance in the Provincial Norths)(Canada)
June 22, 2005... For many people in Canada, the "North" is synonymous with the territories Yukon, Northwest Territories and Nunavut. That North, lying beyond the 60th parallel, dominates scholarly inquiry, the public policy agenda, as well as the imagination of...