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• ISBN: 9781609803858 (hc.)
• ISBN: 160980385X (hc.)
• Physical Description: ix, 550 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), map ; 24 cm.
• Publisher: New York : Seven Stories Press, c2012.

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From Kolkata to Kaktovik En Route to Arctic Voices Something Like an Introduction / Subhankar Banerjee -- Here's What You Can Do to Keep Wild Alive / Cindy Shogan -- pt. ONE snapshot of now -- From Early Warming: Crisis and Response in the Climate-Changed North / Nancy Lord -- They Have No Ears / Riki Ott -- BPing the Arctic? / Subhankar Banerjee -- Teshekpuk in the Arctic's Biggest Wetland / Joe Liebezeit -- Protecting the Apples but Chopping the Trees / Andri Snaer Magnason -- pt. TWO pain and joy of being connected -- From Silent Snow: The Slow Poisoning of the Arctic / Marla Cone -- Fall of the Yukon Kings / Dan O'Neill -- Following Cranes to the Arctic / George Archibald -- Broken Promises: The Reality of Big Oil in America's Arctic / Pamela A. Miller -- From Kivalina: A Climate Change Story / Christine Shearer --

pt. THREE we are the caribou people -- From People Of The Deer / Farley Mowat -- Caribou Currency / Seth Kantner -- We'll Fight To Protect The Caribou Calving Ground And Gwich'in Way of Life / Reverend Trimble Gilbert -- Caribou Time / Nick Jans -- pt. FOUR arctic ocean is our garden -- From Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape / Barry Lopez -- We Will Fight to Protect the Arctic Ocean and Our Way of Life / Earl Kingik -- Dancing for the Whales: Kivgiq and Cultural Resilience Among the People of the Whales / Chie Sakakibara --

pt. FIVE reporting from the field -- From Coming into the Country / John Mcphee -- In the Great Country / Peter Matthiessen -- Coast to Coast: Perilous Journeys with Arctic Shorebirds / Stephen Brown -- In Calloused Human Hands: Tuullik, Teshekpuk, and Our Western Arctic / Jeff Fair -- pt. SIX decade, after decade, after decade ... -- From Two in the Far North / Margaret E. Murie -- From Being Caribou / Karsten Heuer -- From Midnight Wilderness / Debbie S. Miller -- Saving the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge / George B. Schaller --

pt. SEVEN we gather; we speak out; we organize -- Brief History of Native Solidarity / Maria Shaa Tlaa Williams -- We'll Fight to Protect the Gwich'in Homeland and Our Way of Life Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge / Matthew Gilbert -- Past and Present, Culture in Progress / Velma Wallis -- From The Reindeer People: Living with Animals and Sprits in Siberia / Piers Vitebsky.

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Arctic peoples > Social conditions.
Indigenous peoples > Ecology > Arctic regions.
Traditional ecological knowledge > Arctic regions.
Environmental degradation > Arctic regions.
Environmental responsibility > Arctic regions.
Arctic regions > Environmental conditions.