An Arctic Council meeting in Maine? Why it’s not as strange as you may think
PORTLAND, Me. – When Portland, Maine was named as the site of this fall’s Arctic Council Senior Arctic Officials meeting,
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Indigenous rights under fire says Finnish Saami leader
Sámi National Day is celebrated on Saturday; in an atmosphere of what some would say is waning respect for Europe’s
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New tool tranlsates Inuit syllabics into Latin alphabet
A Canadian technology company has created a Google extension that will allow people to convert Inuit language syllabics into Roman
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How Inuk are you?… The Quiz
Inuvery or Inu-white? If you’re from outside the Canadian Arctic you’re probably reading those two words and thinking ‘What the ….?’ But if
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The new Barents priorities
Regional identity is on the priority list of the new Russian Barents Council chairmanship along with cross-border transportation, climate, culture
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Reinstilling pride in the Inuit seal hunt
This month, Inuit launched a new offensive in their battle against the EU seal ban. The 2009 EU law bans the
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Eroding Arctic coastline reveals human bones
As Arctic Ocean waves from summer and fall storms eat away at Barrow’s bluffs, they take land from the living — and
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Can traditional Alaska Native foods be sold? A clash of legal, cultural opinions
BETHEL — Berries are ripening, salmon are running and conflicts over the selling of traditional Alaska Native foods are erupting with
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Nunavut Canada community revives eiderdown business
A small Inuit community in Canada’s eastern Arctic territory of Nunavut is reviving its eiderdown business, something it hopes provides
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Four divers charged with raiding ancient shipwreck in Finland
A southern Finland district prosecutor has pressed charges against four men for allegedly stealing from a shipwreck protected by antiquities
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Finland’s Swedish speakers now outnumbered by foreign language speakers
New provisional figures from Statistics Finland show that residents whose first language is neither Finnish, Swedish nor Sámi now make
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Alaska second state to officially recognize indigenous languages
Supporters of a bill to make 20 Alaska Native languages official state languages organized a 15 hour sit-in protest at
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Finland-Russia Society rep: Relations with our eastern neighbour are still good
Finland-Russia Society’s Olli Nepponen says the crisis in Ukraine has not affected cultural cooperation between the countries. However the newspapers
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Inuit language celebration underway in Nunavut, Canada
An Inuit Language celebration is now underway in Canada’s eastern Arctic territory of Nunavut. The annual event is held to promote and
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Alaska program hopes to help restore Tlingit language
A three-year language mentorship program beginning in Southeast Alaska in August hopes to help revitalize the Tlingit language, classified as
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