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This paper explores how policies and programs can better support country food security and food sovereignty in Gjoa Haven, Nunavut. Through a series of six focus groups with a total of 74 participants, we explore the challenges that Elders, youth, hunters, food preparers, and program providers face in the access, availability, quality, and use of country food. Despite the diverse representation among focus groups, participants revealed similar challenges across demographics and highlighted how tailored policies and programs can provide complementary solutions that serve more than one purpose. We argue that policies and programs targeting financial and economic challenges; resources and infrastructure; and skills and knowledge will improve country food security and will promote food sovereignty. Ultimately, policies and programs must be community informed and tailored to their current context and community dynamics. However, the recommendations we provide could be adapted to other Arctic communities experiencing similar challenges. Keywords: country food; food security; food sovereignty; Inuit self-governance; food programs; Arctic; hunting; Elder; youth; knowledge holders Cet article se penche sur la maniere dont les politiques et les programmes peuvent mieux soutenir la securite alimentaire basee sur les aliments traditionnels et la souverainete alimentaire de Gjoa Haven, au Nunavut. Grace a une serie de six groupes de discussion comptant un total de 74 participants, nous explorons les defis que doivent relever les aines, les jeunes, les chasseurs, les preparateurs d'aliments et les fournisseurs de programmes en matiere d'acces, de disponibilite, de qualite et d'utilisation des aliments traditionnels. Malgre la representation et les caracteristiques demographiques variees des groupes de discussion, les participants ont affirme faire face a des defis de meme nature. Ils ont egalement mentionne que des politiques et des programmes sur mesure peuvent offrir des solutions complementaires revetant plus d'un objectif. Nous soutenons que des politiques et des programmes tenant compte des defis financiers et economiques, des ressources et des infrastructures de meme que des competences et des connaissances permettront d'ameliorer la securite alimentaire basee sur les aliments traditionnels et favoriseront la souverainete alimentaire. Au bout du compte, les politiques et les programmes doivent prendre en consideration les besoins de la communaute et etre adaptes a leur contexte actuel de meme qu'a la dynamique de la communaute. Cependant, il y a lieu de noter que les recommandations que nous faisons pourraient etre adaptees a d'autres communautes arctiques ayant des defis semblables a relever. Mots-cles : aliments traditionnels; securite alimentaire; souverainete alimentaire; autonomie inuite; programmes alimentaires; Arctique; chasse; aine; jeune; gardien du savoir Traduit pour la revue Arctic par Nicole Giguere., INTRODUCTION Country food is crucial for the well-being of Inuit people in Canada and the circumpolar world. Country food is linked to Inuit identity and way of life, and supports [...]

This article adopts a cross-cultural lens to understand why Inuit women enter and leave mining jobs in Inuit Nunangat (Inuit homelands), Canada, using Nunavik as a case study. Previous research has often depicted Indigenous women as either victims of mining or as anti-mining activists. Interviews with ten Nunavimmiut women (Inuit women of Nunavik), who had worked or were currently working at one of two mines in Nunavik, complicate these portrayals. As a team consisting of settler and Inuit scholars, we draw on Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit principles to extend previous understandings of Indigenous women's pathways through, and out of, mining employment. Women's descriptions of mining employment were ambivalent. Inuit women applied qanuqtuurunnarniq (resourcefulness) in using mining work to share with others, connect with Inuit culture and community after moving to southern cities, and participate in language and skills training. However, over half of the women interviewed ultimately left mining when it compromised their ability to achieve well-being by restricting their ability to care for their children, to develop their skills through job advancement, or both. Collectively, the narratives demonstrate how women adopted multi-faceted strategies to pursue a good life; they considered mining employment in relation to their ability to care for and share with others, work for a common purpose, acquire skills and training, and maintain connections with land and culture. By centring Inuit values and well-being, Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit principles prompt a reimagining of how mining might be reorganized to support the lives of Inuit women in the context of devastating impacts of colonial trauma and displacement. Keywords: Indigenous; mining; gender; Arctic; women; agency; extraction; Inuit; well-being; Indigenous knowledge; Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit S'appuyant sur une etude de cas du Nunavik, cet article adopte une optique interculturelle pour comprendre ce qui incite les Inuites a accepter des emplois dans l'industrie miniere de l'Inuit Nunangat (terres ancestrales des Inuits), au Canada et ce qui les incite a quitter ces emplois. D'apres d'autres etudes, les femmes autochtones sont souvent considerees soit comme des victimes de l'exploitation miniere, soit comme des activistes militant contre l'exploitation miniere. Des entrevues avec dix Inuites du Nunavik qui ont travaille a l'une des deux mines du Nunavik ou qui y travaillent encore viennent compliquer ces hypotheses. En tant qu'equipe composee d'erudits colonisateurs ou inuits, nous nous appuyons sur les principes de l'Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit pour mieux comprendre le cheminement des femmes autochtones dans le cadre de leurs emplois miniers, a l'entree et a la sortie de ce secteur. Les descriptions des emplois miniers par les femmes etaient ambivalentes. Les Inuites faisaient preuve de qanuqtuurunnarniq (ingeniosite) en ce sens qu'elles se servaient de leur emploi du secteur minier pour se rapprocher d'autres personnes, pour faire le lien avec leur culture inuite et la communaute apres avoir demenage dans des villes plus au sud et pour prendre part a des occasions de formation en langue et d'acquisition de competences. Toutefois, plus de la moitie des femmes interviewees finissaient par quitter le milieu minier lorsque celui-ci compromettait leur bien-etre en restreignant leur capacite a prendre soin de leurs enfants, a acquerir des competences par le biais de l'avancement professionnel, ou les deux. Sur le plan collectif, les temoignages des femmes permettent de comprendre comment elles ont adopte des strategies polyvalentes pour se faire une bonne vie. Elles ont considere un emploi dans le secteur minier en tenant compte de leur capacite a s'occuper des autres et a se rapprocher d'autrui, de travailler dans un but commun, d'acquerir des competences, de faire de la formation et d'entretenir des liens avec la terre et la culture. En mettant l'accent sur le bien-etre et les valeurs des Inuits, les principes de l'Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit incitent a repenser comment l'exploitation miniere pourrait etre reorganisee pour favoriser le bien-etre des Inuites dans le contexte des effets devastateurs des deplacements et des traumatismes du colonialisme. Mots-cles: Autochtone; exploitation miniere; genre; Arctique; femmes; agence; extraction; Inuit; connaissances des Autochtones en matiere de bien-etre; Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit Traduit pour la revue Arctic par Nicole Giguere., INTRODUCTION All I can say is that [the mine] is so positive for me personally, in my head and healthy. And what I don't like is being apart from home. [...]

Vegetation is changing across the Arctic in response to increasing temperatures, which may influence archaeological sites in the region. At the moment, very little is known about how different plant species influence archaeological remains. In this study we visited 14 archaeological sites stretching across a climatic gradient from the outer coast to the inner fjords in the Nuuk Fjord area of West Greenland to assess the impact of vegetation growth on archaeological preservation. Examination of the physical disturbance of archaeological layers and materials by roots from different plant species showed that horsetail (Equisetum arvense) was particularly destructive because of its deep penetrating rhizomes and ubiquity across the study area. Willow (Salix glauca) also caused physical disturbance due to a dense root network, but its roots were mainly found in the upper 30 cm of the soil. Focus was also given to the impact from vegetation on the visibility of sites, where growth of willow was found be the main problem, especially in the inner fjords. Historic descriptions and aerial photographs from the sites show that shrub growth was already widespread in the region by the 1930s, but photos of some of the sites investigated show that the willow shrubs are significantly taller today, which has decreased the visibility of site features. The impact from horsetail and willow on archaeological sites may be mitigated using geotextiles and grazing by livestock, but both methods require further studies before being implemented in the study area. Key words: vegetation; Low Arctic; archaeological sites; root damage; visibility; Nuuk Fjord A la grandeur de l'Arctique, la vegetation change en reaction aux temperatures a la hausse, ce qui peut exercer une influence sur les sites archeologiques de la region. En ce moment, on en sait peu sur la maniere dont les differentes especes vegetales influencent les restes archeologiques. Dans le cadre de cette etude, nous avons visite 14 sites archeologiques repartis sur un gradient climatique allant de la zone cotiere exterieure aux fjords interieurs de la region du fjord de Nuuk, dans l'ouest du Greenland, afin d'evaluer l'incidence de la croissance de la vegetation sur la preservation archeologique. L'examen de la perturbation physique des couches et du materiel archeologiques au moyen des racines de differentes especes vegetales a permis de constater que la prele (Equisetum arvense) jouait un role particulierement destructeur en raison de ses rhizomes profonds et omnipresents dans toute la zone etudiee. Le saule (Salix glauca) entraine aussi des perturbations physiques en raison de son reseau de racines denses, bien que ses racines se trouvent principalement dans la couche superieure de sol de 30 cm. Nous avons aussi accorde de l'importance a l'incidence de la vegetation sur la visibilite des sites, ce qui a permis de conclure que la croissance du saule constituait le probleme principal, surtout dans la zone interieure des fjords. Les descriptions historiques et les photographies aeriennes des sites montrent que la croissance d'arbustes etait deja repandue dans la region dans les annees 1930, bien que certaines photos des sites etudies permettent de comprendre que les saules arbustifs sont beaucoup plus grands aujourd'hui, ce qui diminue la visibilite des caracteristiques des sites. L'incidence de la prele et du saule sur les sites archeologiques pourrait etre attenuee par l'utilisation de geotextiles et le broutage du betail. Il y a toutefois lieu de se pencher de plus pres sur ces deux methodes avant de les adopter dans la zone etudiee. Mots cles : vegetation; Bas-Arctique; sites archeologiques; endommagement des racines; visibilite; fjord de Nuuk Traduit pour la revue Arctic par Nicole Giguere., INTRODUCTION Archaeological sites in the Arctic represent an irreplaceable record of human history. Low temperatures, favourable moisture conditions, limited human impact, and sparse vegetation have limited the decay of material [...]

ABSTRACT. Arctic regions have been experiencing increasing pressures from multiple environmental stressors, most notably rapid climate change and human development. Previous research has demonstrated the impacts of calcareous dust from [...]

ABSTRACT. We present the first records of fungi associated with feathers from seabirds and sea ducks in the Canadian Arctic and sub-Arctic. Birds sampled in Nunavut and Newfoundland (Canada) included [...]

ABSTRACT. One of the most pervasive signals of global climate change is altered patterns of distribution with trends towards poleward shifts of species. While habitat loss and destruction has severed [...]

ABSTRACT. As climate change and globalization are opening the Arctic to human activities, the debate about how best to organize Arctic institutions in order to facilitate regional governance has been [...]

ABSTRACT. Breeding bird response to habitat rehabilitation after anthropogenic disturbance has received little attention in the Arctic. The North Slope of Alaska is an important breeding ground for many populations [...]

ABSTRACT. The limited availability of consistent, longitudinal data sources for marine traffic in Arctic Canada has presented significant challenges for researchers, policy makers, and planners. Temporally and spatially accurate shipping [...]

ABSTRACT. Grizzly bears have recently become more common on the Arctic Islands in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region, concurrently with a period of environmental change. Over the last decade, grizzly bear-polar [...]

ABSTRACT. Polar bears (Ursus maritimus) display fidelity to large geographic regions, and their movements are influenced by sea ice distribution. Polar bear subpopulations are moderately distinct from one another, and [...]

ABSTRACT. Little is known about the fate of the crew of the Franklin expedition after they sailed from England in 1845. Scant physical evidence and limited Inuit testimony have fueled [...]

ABSTRACT. Ridges in sea ice and the convergent forces that form them are a serious hazard to ships traveling in the Arctic, but few studies have examined ridge distribution at [...]

ABSTRACT Sustaining Arctic Observing Networks (SAON) implies a system of different sensors that are generating data to be preserved, interpreted, and applied in a continuous manner over a long period [...]

ABSTRACT. Arctic observing networks exist in many countries and often cross international boundaries. We review their status and the development of networked long-term observations as part of a U.S. Arctic [...]

ABSTRACT. Although much progress has been made with various Arctic Observing efforts, assessing that progress can be difficult. What data collection efforts are established or underway? Where? By whom? To [...]

ABSTRACT. To understand and respond to changes in the world's northern regions, we need a coordinated system of long-term Arctic observations. River networks naturally integrate across landscapes and link the [...]

ABSTRACT. Outside of northern Quebec, there is little evidence to confirm reports of nesting by Canada Geese in Arctic habitats of North America, but they nest regularly in the Arctic [...]

ABSTRACT. Spring runoff measurements of Arctic watersheds are challenging given the remote location and the often dangerous field conditions. This study combines remote sensing techniques and field measurements to evaluate [...]

INTRODUCTION The McGill Sub-Arctic Research Laboratory opened in 1954, when the railroad from the new port of Sept Iles reached Knob Lake (later Schefferville), Quebec, to open up the massive [...]

INTRODUCTION Within a given species, or group of species, survival typically declines with increasing latitude (salmon: Koenings et al., 1993; thrushes: Rick-lefs, 1997; songbirds: Ghalambor and Martin, 2001). The usual [...]

ABSTRACT. Private Charles B. Henry, of the United States Lady Franklin Bay Expedition, was put to death by a summary military execution on 6 June 1884, at Camp Clay, near [...]

ABSTRACT. A multi-year experiment in which zooplankton species were manipulated in 12 ponds indicated that the presence of the carnivorous copepod Heterocope septentrionalis eliminated Daphnia pidex whenever H. septentrionalis became [...]

ABSTRACT. Satellite data have revealed dramatic losses of Northern Hemisphere sea ice since the end of the 1970s. To place these changes in a longer-term context, we draw on daily [...]

ABSTRACT. The official names for several of the features on Herschel Island are derived from the visit to the island by USS Thetis, Lt. Cdr. Charles Stockton commanding, on 15-16 [...]

ABSTRACT. Vertical profiles of temperature, salinity, dissolved oxygen, and inorganic nutrients (nitrate, phosphate, and silicate) were measured at five depths (2, 10, 25, 50, and 80 m) beneath the ice [...]

Preben Emanuel Gudmandsen passed away on 2 May 2019, in Denmark, after a very successful career at the Technical University of Denmark, during which he was strongly involved in Arctic [...]

The 5th biennial Arctic Observing Summit (AOS) will be held from 31 March to 2 April 2020 in Akureyri, Iceland, as part of Arctic Science Summit Week 2020. The AOS [...]

AINA hosted a one-day symposium entitled 'Arctic on the Edge' on 27 September 2019 at the University of Calgary. Students and faculty, as well as representatives from AINA, industry (Stantec [...]

E. TAMMIKSAAR,(1) N.G. SUKHOVA(2) and I.R. STONE(3) (Received 7 August 1997; accepted in revised form 8 December 1998) ABSTRACT. The history of polar exploration has witnessed several conceptions of the [...]

AINA is hosting Arctic on the Edge, a one-day symposium on business, policy, and research in the Arctic. This free event will include speed talks, panel discussions, poster sessions, and [...]

AINA's 'Arctic in the Classroom' program was started voluntarily in 2010 by research associate Jon Dudley, who began taking Inuit artifacts in AINA's collection, along with many of his own, [...]

The ArcticNet Publications Database (www.aina.ucalgary. ca/arcticnet) currently describes more than 4200 publications from ArcticNet, 358 publications from the Canadian Arctic Shelf Exchange Study (CASES), and 211 publications from the International [...]

Current research being conducted at the Arctic Institute under the Northern Seas project by Drs. Ravi Sankar, Maribeth Murray, and Matthew Ayre is utilizing a geographical information system-based approach to [...]

Frigault, J.S., and Giles, A.R. Understanding Fall Risk Factors for Inuvialuit Elders in Inuvik, Northwest Territories, Canada. Gallagher, C.P., and Lea, E.V. Overwintering Habitat of American Dipper, Cinclus mexicanus, in [...]

AINA post-doctoral fellow Matthew Ayre conducted two research trips, to the United Kingdom in March and the United States in April, to identify and digitally photograph logbooks surviving from the [...]

It's been a hell of an interesting life. You've got the whole gamut of science in an area that's just so darned interesting. (George Hobson on his affinity to the [...]

For archaeologists, the consistent application of names for ancient cultures is central to productive academic communication; when one of us uses a term such as 'Late Dorset,' we need to [...]

With financial support from Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, the Hydrocarbon Impacts (HI) database, a subset of AINA's Arctic Science and Technology Information System (ASTIS), has recently been made available [...]

Several AINA research associates are contributing entries for the Encyclopedia of the Arctic, to be published by Fitzroy Dearborn in the spring of 2003. Its two large-format volumes, edited by [...]

AINA Senior Research Associate Peter Schledermann's historical novel, Raven's Saga: An Arctic Odyssey, is being translated into Danish. The translation will be published by Atuagkat Press in Nuuk, Greenland. Research [...]

Louis-Edmond Hamelin, the famous Canadian geographer, once wrote that 'Nordicity is an essential element in Canada's self-image, and ... the northern frontier has repeatedly served to focus national aspirations.' The [...]

At the annual council meeting of the Association of Canadian Universities for Northern Studies (ACUNS), held at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia on 28-29 November 1997, a group of [...]

The Nunavik Bibliography is a cooperative long-term project to build a comprehensive bibliographic database about northern Quebec. The bibliography describes 6600 publications and is available for free from a bilingual [...]

New funding for Canadian International Polar Year (IPY) activities has not yet been secured, but planning for a wide variety of national and international activities is continuing. A total of [...]

TSUJI, L.J.S., WAINMAN, B.C., WEBER, J.-P., SUTHERLAND, C., KATAPATUK, B., and NIEBOER, E. Protecting the Health of First Nation Personnel at Contaminated Sites: A Case Study of Mid-Canada Radar Line [...]

This autumn the Churchill Northern Studies Centre (CNSC) hired Dr. LeeAnn Fishback as the CNSC's Scientific Coordinator. Dr. Fishback's research activities include the study of soil development in the High [...]

The Grant-in-Aid Committee received 30 proposals this year--a record number. Unfortunately we were able to fund only seven, at $1000 each. As before, all funds reflect donations from Institute members. [...]