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Denmark/Greenland General News Politics Politics (Denmark/Greenland) 

Greenland braces for coalition talks to cut through election result murk

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Wednesday, April 25, 2018 at 15:38 — Last Updated: Friday, April 27, 2018 at 11:42
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With Wednesday’s election result murk, the topsy-turvy world of Greenlandic politics is about to get a lot more interesting as

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General Society Society (Sweden) Sweden 

Educating immigrants about Sweden by teaching them the art of hunting

Radio Sweden
Posted: Thursday, April 5, 2018 at 11:10 — Last Updated: Friday, April 6, 2018 at 14:03
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A new course this fall will help non-Swedish speakers get their hunting license. Mattias Wahle will be teaching the hunter

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Finland General Society Society (Finland) 

Bilingual Finnish-Sámi teaching to start in Helsinki school

Yle News
Posted: Wednesday, January 31, 2018 at 09:14 — Last Updated: Wednesday, January 31, 2018 at 11:22
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A Helsinki comprehensive school will offer classes in the indigenous Northern Sámi language more intensively than ever before in autumn

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General Society Society (USA) USA 

Teacher housing teaches life lessons

Anne Hillman, Alaska Public Media
Posted: Monday, October 9, 2017 at 18:00
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The school in Nikolai, until recently, had a problem. There was nowhere for the high school teacher to live. “And

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General Society Society (USA) USA 

‘Every year it’s harder’: Hiring teachers gets increasingly difficult in rural Alaska

Tegan Hanlon, Alaska Dispatch News @teganhanlon
Posted: Thursday, August 31, 2017 at 15:03 — Last Updated: Thursday, August 31, 2017 at 15:05
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In the Lower Kuskokwim School District in Southwest Alaska, classes started this month with about a dozen teaching jobs unfilled.

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Finland General Society Society (Finland) 

Helsinki, Finland among world’s top 10 liveable cities

Yle News
Posted: Thursday, August 17, 2017 at 15:53
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Helsinki has been ranked among the world’s ten most liveable cities by the Economist Intelligence Unit. The Finnish capital, the

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General Society Society (USA) USA 

Low enrollment forces 2 more school closures in Alaska

Tegan Hanlon, Alaska Dispatch News @teganhanlon
Posted: Thursday, August 10, 2017 at 16:03 — Last Updated: Thursday, August 10, 2017 at 16:06
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A tiny school on remote St. George Island in the Bering Sea and an alternative school in the Interior’s Delta

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General Society Society (Sweden) Sweden 

Activists say use of Finnish in Sweden is being restricted

Yle News
Posted: Thursday, June 29, 2017 at 17:19 — Last Updated: Friday, June 30, 2017 at 13:09
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Finnish speakers in Sweden are protesting about what they say is language-based discrimination. The group of activists wrote an op-ed

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ARCTIC COUNCIL 2017 General Politics Politics (Russia) Russia 

Arctic Council ministerial – View from Russia

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Monday, May 8, 2017 at 16:00 — Last Updated: Monday, May 8, 2017 at 16:09
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The United States hands the Arctic Council’s two-year rotating chairmanship to Finland on May 11th in Fairbanks, Alaska. Foreign ministers

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General Society Society (USA) USA 

Gov. Walker signs bill recognizing the black soldiers who helped build the Alaska Highway

Wesley Early, Alaska Public Media
Posted: Wednesday, May 3, 2017 at 17:05 — Last Updated: Wednesday, May 3, 2017 at 17:09
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Yesterday, Governor Walker signed Senate Bill 46 into law, establishing October 25 as “African American Soldiers’ Contribution to Building the

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Canada General Society Society (Canada) 

Canadian teacher wins $1M for her work with Arctic Inuit community

Levon Sevunts, Radio Canada International
Posted: Monday, March 20, 2017 at 15:35
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A Canadian teacher has won one of the most coveted global teaching prizes worth $1 million US for her work in

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Finland General Society Society (Finland) 

Daycare parents fight endless war with Finnish winter

Yle News
Posted: Tuesday, February 7, 2017 at 18:51
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Finland is shivering this week as a high pressure system brings temperatures well below freezing to the country. Small children

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Politics Politics (USA) USA 

Alaska’s US senators push Trump nominees to guard fisheries, rural areas while cutting regulations

Erica Martinson, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Thursday, January 19, 2017 at 14:59 — Last Updated: Thursday, January 19, 2017 at 16:25
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WASHINGTON — Alaska Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan pressed Cabinet nominees to consider Alaska’s uniqueness, the difficulties of rural areas

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Environment Environment (USA) General USA 

Northwest Arctic officials move ahead on new school for climate-threatened village

Tegan Hanlon, Alaska Dispatch News @teganhanlon
Posted: Monday, January 16, 2017 at 13:52
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The Northwest Arctic Borough Assembly held an unprecedented meeting 2,000 miles away in Seattle last month, where it narrowly shot

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Finland General Society (Finland) 

Sámi University professor: Sámi instruction has fallen behind

Yle News
Posted: Wednesday, December 7, 2016 at 04:06
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Torkel Rasmussen, a professor at the Sámi University College in Kautokeino, Norway says the Sámi Parliament of Finland, the representative

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In Taloyoak, Nunavut, the northernmost hamlet on mainland Canada, Inuit are working to conserve their territory and set up a community-driven, land-based economy. Photo : Eilís Quinn

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