Routledge Handbook of Indigenous Peoples in the Arctic.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Section 1 Arctic Indigenous diversity and the foundations of cultural, social and spiritual well-being -- 1 The role of statistics in relation to Arctic Indigenous realities -- 2 Indigenizing education in Sápmi/Norway: rights, interface and the pedagogies of discomfort and hope -- 3 What makes a good political leader? Young people's perceptions from the republic of Sakha (Yakutia) -- 4 Electronic devices for safeguarding Indigenous languages and cultures (Eastern Siberia) -- 5 Voices of the forests, voices of the streets: popular music and modernist transformation in Sakha (Yakutia), Northeast Siberia -- 6 Soviet-time Indigenous displacement on the Kola Peninsula: an extreme case of a common practice -- 7 Indigenous Arctic religions -- Section 2 The fundamental importance of land, territories and resources -- 8 Changing Indigenous territorial rights in the Russian North -- 9 Sámi law and rights in Norway - with a focus on recent developments -- 10 Comprehending the mandate and interactions of land tenure reform in Finnmark, Norway -- 11 The Girjas Case - court proceedings as a strategy to enforce Sámi land rights -- 12 Arctic waters as Inuit homeland -- 13 Alaska Native marine mammal harvesting: the Marine Mammal Protection Act and the crisis of eligibility -- 14 Review and mapping of Indigenous knowledge concepts in the Arctic -- Section 3 Indigenous peoples and self-determination in the Arctic -- 15 Indigenous self-government in the Arctic: assessing the scope and legitimacy in Nunavut, Greenland and Sápmi -- 16 Advancing Inuit self-determination and governance in Alaska and Canada amidst renewed global focus on the Arctic.

17 Indigenous peoples' right to self-determination: perceptions of self-determination among the Sámi electorate in Sweden -- 18 Indigenous self-determination and disempowerment in the Russian North -- 19 The participation of Arctic Indigenous peoples' organizations in the Arctic Council and beyond -- 20 Legal appraisal of Arctic Indigenous peoples' right to free, prior and informed consent -- Epilogue: Alaska natives and climate change -- Index.

This handbook brings together the expertise of Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars to offer a comprehensive overview of issues surrounding the well-being, self-determination and sustainability of Indigenous peoples in the Arctic.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.