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Our Ice Is Vanishing / Sikuvut Nunguliqtuq: A History of Inuit, Newcomers, and Climate Change (McGill-Queen’s Native and Northern Series)

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The Arctic is ruled by ice. For Inuit, this can be a highway, a hunting ground, and the platform on which life is lived. Whilst the international community argues about sovereignty, security, and resource development on the top of the world, the Inuit remind us that they’re the original inhabitants of this magnificent place – and that it’s undergoing a dangerous transformation. The Arctic ice is melting at an alarming rate and Inuit have turn out to be the direct witnesses and messengers of climate change. Through an examination of Inuit history and culture, alongside the experiences of newcomers to the Arctic searching for land, wealth, adventure, and power, Our Ice Is Vanishing describes the legacies of exploration, intervention, and resilience. Combining scientific and legal information with political and individual perspectives, Shelley Wright follows the history of the Canadian presence in the Arctic and shares her own journey in recollections and photographs, presenting the far North as few people have seen it. Climate change is redrawing the boundaries of what Inuit and non-Inuit have learned to expect from our world. Our Ice Is Vanishing demonstrates that we will have to engage with the knowledge of the Inuit with a purpose to remember and negotiate issues of climate change and sovereignty claims in the region.
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