Main entry:

Wright, Shelley, author.

Title & Author:

Our ice is vanishing = Sikuvut nunguliqtuq : a history of Inuit, newcomers, and climate change / Shelley Wright.

Publication:

Montréal : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2014]
©2014

Description:

xvi, 398 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm

Series:

McGill-Queen's native and northern series ; 75

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-378) and index.
Sikuvut : our ice -- Iglulik : the place where there is a house -- The Northwest Passage -- Inuit odysseys -- Canada's Arctic dominion -- Human flagpoles -- Nunavut : our land -- Silaup aulaninga : climate change -- Is the Arctic safe for polar bears? -- Tusaqtittijiit : messengers -- Appendices : A circumpolar Inuit declaration on sovereignty in the Arctic / Inuit Circumpolar Council ; A circumpolar Inuit declaration on resource development principles in Inuit Nunaat / Inuit Circumpolar Council ; United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples / United Nations.

Summary:

Examines Inuit history and culture and the experiences of new arrivals in the Arctic. In addition, the effect that climate change is having on the Arctic is explored.

ISBN:

9780773544628 (cloth)
0773544623 (cloth)
(ePDF)
9780773596108
(ePUB)
9780773596115
0773596100

Subject:

Eskimo
Inuit Canada History.
Sea ice Social aspects Arctic Coast (Canada) History.
Climatic changes Social aspects Canada, Northern History.
Inuits Canada Histoire.
Glace de mer Aspect social Arctique, Côte de l' (Canada) Histoire.
Climat Changements Aspect social Canada (Nord) Histoire.
Indigenous peoples in Canada.
Climatic changes Social aspects.
Climatology.
Ecology.
Inuit.
Social conditions.
Klimaänderung
Canada, Northern Climate History.
Canada, Northern History.
Canada, Northern Social conditions.
Canada, Northern Environmental conditions History.
Canada (Nord) Climat Histoire.
Canada (Nord) Histoire.
Canada (Nord) Conditions sociales.
Canada (Nord) Conditions environnementales Histoire.
Canada.
Canada Arctic Coast.
Northern Canada.
Nordpolarmeer

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

McGill-Queen's native and northern series ; 75.

Sikuvut nunguliqtuq

Holdings:

Location: Library main 308324
Call No.: BIB 253745
Status: Available