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Village environmental issues
- 7 Generations: Addressing Village Environmental Issues for the Future Generations of Rural Alaska by Suanne Unger. Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation and Chugachmiut, March 1999. A manual designed for rural Alaskans who want to accomplish environmental planning and management using a community-based approach. Also included here is a companion 7 Generations Train the Trainer manual used to train others in use of the 7 Generations manual.
Arctic Circle
This site at University of
Connecticut contains articles on the Inuit and other northern
native peoples that bear directly on environmental and development-related
issues.
- The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: A Special Report by Norman Chance. Looks at both sides of the debate to open ANWR to oil exploration. Key players in the debate include Alaska's North Slope Borough, whose residents are predominately Inupiat Eskimo, and Gwich'in Athabascans in Alaska and Canada.
- "The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: Preservation, Petroleum, and Politics in Arctic Alaska" A "virtual classroom" study.
- The Arctic Aeromedical Laboratory's Thyroid Function Study: The Use of Native Alaskans in a Radiological Experiment. Arctic Circle's discussion of a 1955 U.S. Air Force research project which used Iodine 131, a radioactive medical tracer, in 121 people -- 102 Alaska Natives and 19 military personnel. See also the 177-page report, The Arctic Aeromedical Labaratory's Thyroid Function Study: A Radiological Risk and Ethical Analysis (National Academy of Sciences Press, 1996).
- Ecology, Environment and Education. From the Alaska Native Knowledge Network.
- "Project Chariot: The Nuclear Legacy of Cape Thompson, Alaska". A "virtual classroom" study about the proposed project to use an atomic bomb at Point Hope -- site of an Inupiat Eskimo village -- to build a harbor in the 1960s.