Circumpolar Musings : Recent news of the circumpolar world.

Random circumpolar news items almost daily since 26 November 2004.

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Arctic reports and literature online

Arctic Human Development Report (2004)

http://www.svs.is/AHDR/

Documents from the Arctic Council Ministerial Meeting in Salekhard, Russia, 26 October 2006

Main intervention at the Ministerial Meeting by Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs Jonas Gahr Støre (pdf)

Concluding Statement at the Ministerial Meeting by Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs Jonas Gahr Støre (pdf)

Report of Senior Arctic Officials To Ministers At The Fifth Arctic Council Ministerial Meeting (pdf)

Salekhard Declaration On The Occasion Of The Tenth Anniversary Of The Arctic Council The Fifth Ac Ministerial Meeting (pdf)

Other Circumpolar Governance and Cooperation Organizations

Conference of Parliamentarians of the Arctic Region
http://www.arcticparl.org/

The Northern Forum
http://www.northernforum.org/

Arctic Peoples: Indigenous Peoples at the Arctic Council
http://www.arcticpeoples.org/

Barents Euro-Arctic Council (BEAC)
http://www.beac.st/

Barents Euro-Arctic Transport Area
http://www.barentsinfo.fi/beata/index.asp

EU: Northern Dimension
http://ec.europa.eu/comm/external_relations/north_dim/index.htm

Vital Graphics

Vital Arctic Graphics: People and global heritage on our last wild shores
http://www.vitalgraphics.net/arctic.cfm

Boreal Forest

CCFM: Canada's Boreal Forests (8 pp., pdf)
http://ycdl4.yukoncollege.yk.ca/frontier/files/agraham/IFPPBrochureengv3.pdf

Web sites

Association of Canadian Universities for Northern Studies
http://www.acuns.ca/

Arctic Research Consortium of the United States
http://www.arcus.org/ and publications http://www.arcus.org/Publications/index.html

Arctic Circle (web site with lots of texts)
http://arcticcircle.uconn.edu/

The Arctic.is
http://www.thearctic.is

NOAA Arctic Theme Page
http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/index.shtml

Arctic Photo Gallery and Images (NOAA)
http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/gallery.html

Smithsonian Institution Arctic Studies Center
http://www.mnh.si.edu/arctic/

The Arctic Environment in Historical Perspective
http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/aro/ipy-1/

International Polar Year 2007-2008 (a northern launching site)
http://dl1.yukoncollege.yk.ca/ipy/

GLOBIO: Mapping Human Impacts On The Biosphere (Polar Regions)
http://www.globio.info/region/polar/

The Wilderness Society

Library of ANWR documents
http://www.wilderness.org/Library/arctic.cfm

Arctic Institute of North America

Proceedings of the 14th Inuit Studies Conference (412 pp., pdf)
http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/aina/14thISCProceedings.pdf

Canadian Arctic Resources Committee

Publications
http://www.carc.org/resource_centre.php

University of the Arctic

BCS course module texts (individual pdf files)
http://www.uarctic.org/singleArticle.aspx?m=110&amid=250#CircumpolarStudies

Northern Research Forum

http://www.nrf.is/ also publications http://www.nrf.is/Publications/publications.html

Historical

A Lengthy Deployment: The Jeannette Expedition in Arctic Waters as Described in Annual Reports of the Secretary of the Navy, 1880-1884
http://www.history.navy.mil/library/online/jeanette.htm

Meeting of Frontiers (Library of Congress, 1999-2003)
http://frontiers.loc.gov/intldl/mtfhtml/mfhome.html

Historical Timeline of the Northwest Territories (PWNHC)
http://pwnhc.learnnet.nt.ca/timeline/index.html

The Voyage of Ohthere, ca. AD 800
http://dl1.yukoncollege.yk.ca/agraham/ohthere

Arctic Exploration (from Appleton's 1871)
http://dl1.yukoncollege.yk.ca/agraham/stories/storyReader$236

Arctic Languages: An Awakening (UNESCO, 447pp., 1990, somewhat dated but interesting)
http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0008/000861/086162e.pdf

Journals online

International Journal of Circumpolar Health
http://ijch.oulu.fi/

Folklore: Electronic Journal of Folklore (Estonia)
http://haldjas.folklore.ee/folklore/ksisu.htm

Pro Ethnologia (esp. Vols. 5, 7 10 & 11, Estonia)
http://www.erm.ee/?lang=ENG&node=101

Research, Indigenous Traditional Knowledge

Research Involving Aboriginal Peoples (Canada, draft)
http://www.pre.ethics.gc.ca/english/pdf/TCPS06e.pdf

Principles for the Conduct of Research in the Arctic
http://www.ankn.uaf.edu/IKS/conduct.html

ACUNS Ethical Principles for the Conduct of Research in the North (1997)
http://www.yukoncollege.yk.ca/~agraham/#ACUNS or http://www.acuns.ca/ethical.htm

Guidelines for Respecting Cultural Knowledge (Alaska Native Knowledge Network)
http://www.ankn.uaf.edu/Publications/knowledge.html

Oral History Evaluation Guidelines (Oral History Association)
http://www.oralhistory.org/do-oral-history/oral-history-evaluation-guidelines/

Interviewing Inuit Elders, from Nunavut Arctic College
http://www.nac.nu.ca/publication/index.html

Intellectual Property Rights: Culture as Commodity (Cultural Survival, 24.4, 2001)
http://www.culturalsurvival.org/publications/csq/index.cfm?id=24.4

Intellectual Property Rights: The Politics of Ownership (Cultural Survival, 15.3, 1991)
http://www.culturalsurvival.org/publications/csq/index.cfm?id=15.3

Native Observations on Climate Change
http://www.uaf.edu/olcg/globalchange/climate.change.html

Inuit Observations on Climate Change - Final Report (IISD, 27pp., pdf)
http://www.iisd.org/publications/pub.aspx?pno=410

Snowchange.org: Northern Indigenous Views on Climate Change and Ecology (Finland)
http://www.snowchange.org/snowchange/ [server currently offline]

Climate Change Project Jukebox (UAF Oral History Program)
http://jukebox.uaf.edu/ClimateChange/home.html

Alaska Native Knowledge Network
http://www.ankn.uaf.edu/index.html

Science on the Edge: Arctic and Antarctic Discoveries (NSF, 14 pp., pdf)
http://www.nsf.gov/about/history/nsf0050/arctic/pdf.htm

Polar Science and Research / IPY information
http://dl1.yukoncollege.yk.ca/ipy/

ArcticNet (Canada)
http://www.arcticnet-ulaval.ca/

Indigenous Peoples

Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples (Canada, 1996)
http://www.ainc-inac.gc.ca/ch/rcap/index_e.html

Sami in Sweden (Sweden.se, 3pp. pdf)
http://tinyurl.com/yagqk7

The Sami - An Indigenous People in Sweden
http://www.sweden.se/templates/cs/Publication____11373.aspx

Wenger Eskimo Database (UAF Rasmuson Library, bibliography)
http://www.wengereskimodb.uaf.edu

Innu History and Culture (Canada)
http://www.innu.ca/culture.html

Aboriginal Peoples of the Russian North, Links to On-Line Resources (A NOST 202 resource; not recently updated)
http://www.yukoncollege.yk.ca/~agraham/nost202/aboppsru.htm

Aboriginal Peoples of the North American North, Links to On-Line Resources (A NOST 202 resource; not recently updated)
http://www.yukoncollege.yk.ca/~agraham/nost202/aboppsna.htm

Audio and Video

Project Jukebox (UAF Oral History Program)
http://www.jukebox.uaf.edu

Arctic Science Journeys Radio (UAF)
http://seagrant.uaf.edu/news/MoreASJ.html

Photography

Photography under Arctic conditions (Kodak, 6pp., pdf)
http://www.kodak.com/global/en/professional/support/techPubs/c9/c9.pdf

Online Books

List of online books -- Arctic (from UPenn Online Book Page)
http://tinyurl.com/yymbkp

Speeches and addresses on northern and circumpolar issues

Speeches and addresses
http://dl1.yukoncollege.yk.ca/agraham/speeches