Arctic articles from June 1996

Arctic archives from June 1996

Colonialism and language in Canada's North: a Yukon case study.
June 1, 1996... (Received 14 August 1995; accepted in revised form 8 January 1996) ABSTRACT. The relationship between the federal and territorial governments in Canada has been described as colonial because important decisions affecting the territories can...

Revegetation of an airstrip and dirt roads in Central East Greenland.
June 1, 1996... (Received 24 March 1994; accepted in revised form 20 February 1996) ABSTRACT. Revegetation of an airstrip and associated dirt roads on Pingo Pass, central East Greenland (71[degrees]48'N, 24[degrees]15'W), was studied in 1991, 34 years...

Names, numbers, and northern policy: Inuit, project surname, and the politics of identity.
June 1, 1996... A great deal of hurt and misunderstanding can grow out of a clash of cultures. This was precisely the case when the Canadian Northern Administration established numbering and a renaming system for Inuit. Traditions of the Inuit were violated by...

Doing things the right way: Dene traditional justice in Lac la Martre, N.W.T.
June 1, 1996... Doing Things the Right Way is the published report of the Dene Justice Project (DJP), which involved ethnohistorical research into Dene traditional law at Lac La Martre, N.W.T., from 1991 through 1994. Because I am an...

Political and administrative responses to Sami self-determination.
June 1, 1996... Despite the fact that Norway, Sweden, and Finland have been plural democracies since the first quarter of this century, surprisingly little political attention on the national level has been directed towards ethnopolitics and the plight of the...

Sir John Franklin's journals and correspondence: the first Arctic land expedition, 1819-1822.
June 1, 1996... Richard Davis's edition of John Franklin's diaries, 1819-1822, is a tour de force, coming 172 years after the 1823 publication of Franklin's highly acclaimed Narrative. It is augmented by a superb 109-page introduction that includes an...

Relocating Eden: the image and politics of Inuit exile in the Canadian Arctic.
June 1, 1996... This is a magnificent book about forced Inuit relocation from Arctic Quebec and the interior of Keewatin. It has a perspective somewhat different from, but not conflicting with, the writings of Shelagh Grant, Frank Tester and Peter Kulchyski....