Lecture 12: Finale

Alaskan Natives vs. Greenland Natives

How Oil Has Made Alaskan Natives’ Lives Different from

Greenlanders’

Hess, Hutchins and Jeannot

Economic Effects of Oil

• Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971

• Annual royalty check (statewide)

• Employment• Community services

improved

Prudhoe Bayhttp://www.accentalaska.com/permenant/prud

hoe/

Greenlanders do not benefit from money.

The United States, Greenland, and DenmarkTheir relationship and their impact on the natives

of Greenland

By Callie Fallacy, Jessallee Calugas, and Kareem Cervantes

HA&S 220C: Life Under The Pale Sun

US Military Bases in Greenland

Description of Bases and History

♦ Bluie West One base in Narsassuaq: One of Greenland’s best equipped airports.♦ Bluie West Eight base in Kangerlussuaq: Important cargo stop for goods from America to Europe. Now under Greenlandic rule.♦ Thule Air Base: Completed in 1953, caused an entire inuitcommunity to be relocated. August 2004, base was modernized to meet security challenges of 21st century.

the Chukchi natives

Brought to you by:Louis, Jean, Jean

The Greenland Inuitvs.

The Chukchi native

• In contrast to the Greenland Inuit, The Chukchi have access to wood. Since Greenland has no wood, this eliminates one reason for migration.

A New Ice Age:Effects of Climate Change in Baffin Bay

A New Ice Age: in Baffin Bay

Jensen, Shephard, Olson, O’Conner

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Library/Phytoplankton/

Phytoplankton

Greenland Caribou = Santa’s Reindeer?

General Information on the Greenland Caribou

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Caribou are large, wild, elk-like animals which can be found above the tree-line in arctic North America and Greenland.

Greenland Caribou are found in West and SouthGreenland.

There are currently two types of herds:The qassit up north, and the neria down south.

Reindeer and caribou have unique hairs which trap air providing them with excellent insulation. These hairs also help keep them buoyant in the water. They are very strong swimmers and can move across wide

rushing rivers and even the frozen ice of the Arctic Ocean!

Height: 36 - 50 inches (small female to large male)

Weight: 180- 600 pounds, across the various subspecies

The air temperature on 2 Jan 1993 at the surface of the Earth. The cold (blue) air forms a dome in the Arctic, which is dense(heavy) and tends to slide southwater beneath less dense air. This leads to both the overturning circulation and the westerly winds and jet stream.

NEWS OF THE DAY:acceleration of JakobshavnIsbrae glacier in Greenland(alone, it drains 6.5% of Greenland, producing.6mm per decade of globalsea-level rise, 4% of theaverage 20thC rate of2 cm per decade Joughlinet al. Nature 2 Dec 2004

Regions of melt-back of the Greenland ice-cap; think of the effects on Caribou as well as climate

Environmental Protection Agency: 50% chance of a 45 cm rise by the year 2100

methane-natural gas

CH4

Visit…www.greenlandguide.gl

• The travel activity to and from Greenland is increasing - in line with the Greenlandic society's quick change into a industry and consumer society, that among other things live by its fishing.

• There is a bit more than 56.000 inhabitants in Greenland, but AIR GREENLAND transports approximately 180.000 passengers per year. Most of the passengers are businesspeople and decision-makers in the expanding business of community concerning tourism, fishing and development of raw material, which are the most important.

The comprehensive international trade of Greenland, results in a up going amount of businesspeople, civil servants and politicians who visit the largest island in the world - only a 4 hour plane journey from Denmark.

• The population of Greenland is predominantly Inuit, a people bearing an affinity and solidarity with the Inuits of Canada, Alaska and Siberia. It is only 140 years since the last immigration from Canada took place.

• The Greenlandic people are few in number: 55,000 in an enormous country. Approx. 20 percent of the population was born outside Greenland.

• Greenland is part of the Kingdom of Denmark, but since the introduction of Home Rule in 1979 Greenland has moved towards relative independence based on parliamentary democracy.

• Today fishing is the all-dominating trade and accounts for 95 percent of total exports, but in the hunter districts of the outer areas, the seal and whale catch is of great importance. It actually forms the stable existence for one fifth of the Greenlandic population. For millennia the philosophy has been to live at one with nature. The hunters live with nature and follow the natural seasons.

• In South Greenland ruins from the norse (viking) settlers 1,000 years ago are well preserved, including the ruins of the first Christian churches on the North America continent.

• The symbols of the ancient culture are still alive even in the larger towns. Many people build and use their own kayak as you’ll see in every harbour. The old drum dance is performed by a growing number of artists. The musical and theatrical life is largely based on myths and sagas conveyed in a modern form.

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ice golf (with specially colored balls)

South Greenland

A restaurant inNuuk (not as tastelessas the name suggests)

the major exportof Greenland

Razorbill - John Rasmussen

John Rasmussen

Nuuk…formerlyGothaab (goodharbor), the capitol of Greenland

Nunavut is the newterritory of Canada,administered bythe native population.It encompasses muchof the CanadianArctic, with capitolIqaluit, formerly Frobisher Bay, on Baffin Island. Thereare charter flights therein summer.

Malaspina glacier, Alaska (60N, 140W; NASA Landsatimage:http://earthobservatory.nasa.govhttp://landsat.gsfc.nasa/gov/earthasart)

glacier area: 4000 sq. km

arch vessel mpson, of the ersity of Washington

ool of Oceanography