Penobscot Marine Museum - One lucky individual will soon have the rare experience of paddling his own birchbark canoe, just like the ones built by Penobscot Indians in the 17th and 18th centuries. The Penobscot Marine Museum has announced that it will raffle the canoe to raise funds for a ...
Mongabay.com - In what is being heralded as the 'world's largest conservation agreement' 20 Canadian forestry companies and nine environmental organizations have announced an agreement covering 72 million hectares of the Canadian boreal forest (an area bigger than France). Reaching a major compromise, the agreement essentially ends a long battle ...
The Arts Catalyst - An exhibition of photographs, videos, maps and architectural models from work by the Arctic Perspective Initiative curated by The Arts Catalyst ... Arctic Perspective highlights the cultural, geopolitical and ecological significance of the Arctic and its indigenous cultures. The London exhibition presents work from the project's ...
Alaska Public Radio Network (APRN) - The Anchorage Museum offered an advance peek at its new Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center due to open later this month. The new, permanent gallery features hundreds of Alaska Native artifacts from the Smithsonian Collection and includes many objects never before displayed. Permanent exhibit opens ...
Rezolution Pictures - Born in Moose Factory and raised in the Cree community of Chisasibi, Ernest Webb has devoted his life to telling the stories of Canada’s Aboriginal peoples, across all media. In 2010, Ernest directed the six-part documentary series Down the Mighty River, taking viewers down the wild and ...
Nunatsiaq News - Without a plan to show where what activities can go where, development in Nunavut is something of a crapshoot. “There’s no guidance to industry as to what areas it’s appropriate to have development and which areas it’s not,” said Jonathan Savoy, a policy analyst with the Nunavut ...
MetaFilter - Tropicana is running a TV ad (news story) here in Canada wherein a crew flies up to a remote community in the north, launches a weather balloon with a bunch of bright lights in it and distributes free orange juice to the locals. A ...
Waskaganish Cree Youth Music Program - The objectives of the project are to bring together the community to write, arrange, and produce a positive and original music album. Some of the material will address issues surrounding suicide (which recently took another Waskaganish youth), with the goal of ...
The Guardian (UK) - Elina Helander-Renvall comes from Utsjoki, a place so obscure that even many Finns have little idea where it is. Utsjoki, or Ochejohka, Uccjuuha, and Uccjokk, depending on which local language you are speaking, is Finland's northern-most municipality. Straddling the border with Norway, it shivers, unregarded, deep ...
Deutsche Welle - In the Bikin River Valley, in the region close to Russia's border with China, the World Wildlife Fund for Nature and the indigenous locals have found an unusual conservation solution. Click on link for audio podcast, or listen below.
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