Inuit
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The peoples of the Arctic coasts of Alaska, Canada, Greenland and Chukotka, whose ancestors of the Thule tradition spread east across the North American Arctic from Alaska roughly a thousand years ago, displacing or absorbing the earlier Dorset. Their presence is the single fact that most sharply distinguishes the two poles: the Arctic is inhabited, has been for millennia, and its ice is somebody's ground, road and larder rather than a research object. That has institutional consequences - Greenland exercises self-government within the Kingdom of Denmark, Nunavut was created within Canada in 1999 out of a land claim agreement, and Inuit organisations hold Permanent Participant status at the Arctic Council. It also produces a body of environmental observation that long predates the satellite record, and which sea-ice research has increasingly had to treat as evidence rather than as colour.
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- Pikialasorsuaq (the North Water Polynya)depends_on
- Arctic Oceanlocated_in
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- The peoples of the Arctic coasts of Alaska, Canada, Greenland and Chukotka, whose ancestors of the Thule tradition spread east across the North American Arctic from Alaska roughly a thousand years ago, displacing or absorbing the earlier Dorset. Their presence is the single fact that most sharply distinguishes the two poles: the Arctic is inhabited, has been for millennia, and its ice is somebody's ground, road and larder rather than a research object. That has institutional consequences - Greenland exercises self-government within the Kingdom of Denmark, Nunavut was created within Canada in 1999 out of a land claim agreement, and Inuit organisations hold Permanent Participant status at the Arctic Council. It also produces a body of environmental observation that long predates the satellite record, and which sea-ice research has increasingly had to treat as evidence rather than as colour.
- Knowledge
- Arctic Ocean
- Pikialasorsuaq (the North Water Polynya)
- Inuit
- Connections
- Inuit Circumpolar Council
- Pikialasorsuaq (the North Water Polynya)
- Arctic Ocean
- Amundsen reaches the South Pole
- The Inuit Circumpolar Council is founded
- The Arctic Council is founded at Ottawa
- Polynya
- Inuit
- Antarctica
- Arctic Amplification
- Polar Bear (Ursus maritimus)
- Arctic Tern (Sterna paradisaea)
- Arctic Council
- Inuit
- The continuous satellite sea-ice record begins
- The Arctic summer minimum drops far below anything previously observed
- The lowest Arctic sea-ice extent in the satellite record
- Seven Arctic states pause participation in the Arctic Council
- Evidence
- An Inuit-led commission convened by the Inuit Circumpolar Council consulted communities on both sides of the North Water polynya and recommended an Inuit-managed protected area with a free-travel zone between Greenland and Canada, on the basis that the polynya is a single ecological and cultural system divided by an international boundary. V55 VERIFICATION BASIS: not opened during production; no research channel was available. The report title and date rest on the producer's prior knowledge and require confirmation; no recommendation is quoted verbatim.
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