Arctic Natives and Archaeology
- Circumpolar Health
Bibliographic Database, a project of the
Canadian Institutes
of Health Research.
- ArcticStat Circumpolar Database - public, and independent statistical database
dealing with the countries, regions, and populations of the circumpolar
Arctic. From Canada Research Chair on Comparative
Aboriginal Condition of Universite Laval, it is officially supported by
the Arctic Council and is an official activity of the International
Polar Year. - Vital Arctic Graphics: People and Global Heritage on Our Last Wild Shores - from GRID-Arendal with UNEP funding
- Inuvialuit Settlement Region Database - over 8400 publications and research projects about the region in Canada's Northwest Territories and Yukon. From the Joint Secretariat Inuvialuit Renewable Resource Committees and the Arctic Science and Technology Information System (ASTIS), and funded by Shell Canada.
- Yupik population
in Chukotka, their language, occupations, and politics - web
site from the Danish Chukotka Expeditions offers 125 brilliant
photos from Chukotka, a video on walrus hunting, and an audio
file with traditional Yupik song and music.
- The
Inuvailuit of the Western Arctic from ancient times to 1902
from the Canadian
Museum of Civilization
- Aboriginal peoples
of Newfoundland and Laborador (Beothuks, Mi'kmaq, Innu, Inuit,
Metis peoples)
- Prologue:
Arctic Sketches of Russell Porter from the National Archives and
Records Administration
- Ethnographic
Portraits from the University of Connecticut
- CMCC
- Life and Art of an Ancient Arctic People from Canadian
Museum of Civilization
- Arctic
Investigations Program - Centers for Disease Control
- The
Canadian Arctic - the travels of Jerry Riley - photos of Canadian
Arctic land and peoples
- Archaeology
of the Tundra and Arctic Alaska
- Archaeology
in Arctic North America from the University of Waterloo, CA
- How Inuit live from Library
and Archives Canada
- Arctic Circle
Anthropology - University of Connecticut Museum
- Snowchange.org - Northern
indigenous views on climage change and ecology
- Indigenous
peoples in the Barents region from the Barents portal website
- Alaska Traditional
Knowledge and Native Foods Database from the Institute of
Social and Economic Research, University of Alaska Anchorage
- Alaska Native Science
from the NSF supported Alaska Native Science Commission
- Links describing Evenki, reindeerkeeping people of Sibiria, Mongolia and Chinafrom the Siberian Studies Center of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
- Arctic Council Indigenous Peoples Secretariat - from the Arctic Council
Indigenous Peoples Websites
- Gwich'in - Website of northerly aboriginal peoples of the N.American continent
- Gwich'in Council International - a non-profit organization in 1999 by the Gwich'in Tribal Council in Inuvik, NWT.
- Tage Cho - The Yukon's Internet Community - from the Council of Yukon First Nations
- Arctic Athabaskan Council -
international treaty organization established to represent the interests
of United States and Canadian Athabaskan member First Nation
governments in Arctic Council fora, and to foster a greater
understanding of the common heritage of all Athabaskan peoples of
Arctic North America.
- Nunatsiaq News - from the Nortext Publishing Corporation (Iqaluit)
- Inuit Circumpolar Conference (ICC) - representing the Inuit people of the Arctic - See also ICC Alaska,
ICC Canada, ICC Greenland, and ICC Chukotka (Russia)
- Saami University College - an indigenous institution that preserves and promotes Sámi language, culture and community life
- Nordic Sami Institute - to strengthen and develop Sami language, culture and social life seen in a pan-Sami perspective.
- Sami Siida of North America online - Participants are immigrants and the descendants of immigrants from that region of Europe traditionally known as Lapland (today called Samiland or Sápmi) and all share an active interest in their heritage.
- Saami Council - promotion of Saami rights and interests in the four countries where the Saami are living, to consolidate the feeling of affinity among the Saami people, to attain recognition for the Saami as a nation and to maintain the economic, social and cultural rights of the Saami in the legislation of the four states.
- Ainu Foundation (FRPAC, Japan) - for the Promotion of the Ainu Culture
- University of the Arctic - network of universities, colleges, and other organizations committed to higher education and research in the North
- Dene Cultural Institute (Northwest Territories, Canada) - protect and promote Dene culture, languages, spirituality, heritage, tradition and customs.
- Aboriginal Links: Canada & U.S. from bloorstreet.com
- Indigenous links from Boreale website in Sweden
- Indigenous Nations Internet Resources - from Andrews University, Michigan
- Survey of Living Conditions in the Arctic:
Inuit, Saami, and the Indigenous Peoples of Chukotka part of the Arctic Human Health Initiative
Languages of the North
- Eskimo-Aleut Language Family - from
Native Languages of the Americas
- Alaska Native Language Center - documenting Alaska's 20 native languages - from the University of Alaska
- Language families of the north. Pacific region - from Alaska Native Curriculum and Teacher Development Project (ANCTD)
- Native Word of the Day - searchable audio archive of words and phrases in Aleut, Inupiaq, Siberian Yupik, Yupik and several other native Alaska languages - from KNBA radio station
- Eskimo-English dictionary - from wordgumbo.com, an archive of public domain language learning resources
- Map of Chukchi-Kamchatkan language family - from Sante Fe Institute
- Maps showing language families of the world - from Shippensburg University
- About the Itelmen language of Russia - from University of Tokyo
- Peoples according to language groups - from the red Book of peoples of the Russian empire
- Ainu language (Japan) - listen to Ainu words and phrases, from Ainu World website
- Saami language - from Minoriity languages of Russia on the Net
- The Sami languages - the 10 Saami languages are spoken by over 30,000 Sami in north Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia - from scandinavica.com
- Saami language resources from Oulu University Library, Finland
- Department of Saami Language from University of Tromso, Norway
- Endangered Languages (Scots Gaelic, Saami, Ainu) - from UNESCO
- The LICHEN Project: The LInguistic and Cultural Heritage Electronic Network - international, interdisciplinary project focused on the languages and cultures of the northern circumpolar region (north of the 55N). (University of Oulu, Finland, University of Glasgow, Scotland)
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