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Endangered Peoples of the Arctic Struggles to Survive and Thrive
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Milton M. R. Freeman
Book Code: GR0649
ISBN: 0-313-30649-4
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-30649-5
304 pages, charts, maps, photos
Greenwood Press
Publication: 6/30/2000
List Price: $55.00 (UK Sterling Price: £31.95)
Availability: Print on demand
Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects: Reviews:
  • [a] welcome arrival....[a] useful and timely text for those interested in the diversity of northern peoples, in the commonalties of the issues that face them, and in their respective responses.
    —Cambridge University Press     January 2002
Description: In the Arctic regions, virtually all inhabitants are cultural minorities within their own countries, and although their native culture is constantly evolving naturally, outside pressures are endangering their most important traditions. Endangered Peoples of the Arctic focuses on 14 endangered cultures, from the Inuit tribes in Canada, Alaska, and Greenland to the Saami in Sweden. Students and interested readers will become informed about the contemporary impacts on their traditional way of life, such as loss of language, military intrusions, oil drilling, and wildlife protection, and how these groups are responding. The chapters are written by anthropologists based on their recent fieldwork, which guarantees unparalleled accuracy and exciting immediacy. The Arctic regions are the heartland the groups profiled in Endangered Peoples of the Arctic, and the varied Arctic peoples share common threats from governments and neighbors to the south. Each chapter is devoted to a specific people, including a cultural overview of their history, subsistence strategies, social and political organization, and religion and world view; threats to their survival, and their response to these threats. A section entitled "Food for Thought" poses questions that encourage a personal engagement with the experience of these peoples, and a resource guide suggests further reading and lists films and videos, pertinent organizations and web sites. As the curriculum expands to include more multicultural and indigenous peoples, this unique volume will be valuable to both students and teachers.
Table of Contents:
  • Series Foreword
  • Introduction: Challenges to Cultural Survival in the Artic by Milton M. R. Freeman
  • The Aleuts of the Pribilof Islands, Alaska by Helen D. Corbett and Susanne M. Swibold
  • The Chukchi and Siberian Yupiit of the Russian Far East by Peter P. Schweitzer and Patty A. Gray
  • The Cree of James Bay, Quebec, Canada by Harvey A. Feit
  • The Evenkis of Central Siberia by David G. Anderson
  • The Innu of Labrador, Canada by Adrian Tanner
  • The Inuit of Nunavut, Canada by Bruce Rigby, John MacDonald, and Leah Otak
  • The Inuit of Southern Greenland by Rasmus Ole Rasmussen
  • The Inupiat of Alaska by Barbara Bodenhorn
  • The Isertormeeq of East Greenland by Grete K. Hovelsrud-Broda
  • The Kalaallit of West Greenland by Richard A. Caulfield
  • The Kaska of Canada by Patrick Moore
  • The Lofoten, Northern Norway, Whalers by Arne Kalland
  • The Saami by Hugh Beach
  • The Yupiit of Western Alaska by Ann Fienup-Riordan
  • Index
LC Card Number: 99-31577
LCC Class: GN673
Dewey Class: 306
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