Arctic Voices Resistance at the Tipping Point

by Banerjee, Subhankar

• ISBN13: 9781609803858
• ISBN10: 160980385X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-07-03
• Publisher: Seven Stories Press

Summary

A pristine environment of ecological richness and biodiversity. Home to generations of indigenous people for thousands of years. The location of vast quantities of oil, natural gas and coal. Largely uninhabited and long at the margins of global affairs, in the last decade Arctic Alaska has quickly become the most contested land in recent US history. World-renowned photographer, writer, and activist Subhankar Banerjee brings together first-person narratives from more than thirty prominent activists, writers, and researchers who address issues of climate change, resource war, and human rights with stunning urgency and groundbreaking research. From Gwich'in activist Sarah James's impassioned appeal, "We Are the Ones Who Have Everything to Lose," during the UN Climate Conference in Copenhagen in 2009 to an original piece by acclaimed historian Dan O'Neill about his recent trips to the Yukon Flats fish camps, Arctic Voicesis a window into a remarkable region. Other contributors include Seth Kantner, Velma Wallis, Nick Jans, Debbie Miller, Andri Snaer Magnason, Alex Shoumatoff, Rebecca Solnit, Michael Klare, George Schaller, George Archibald, Cindy Shogan, and Peter Matthiessen.

Author Biography

Over the past decade SUBHANKAR BANERJEE has been a leading international voice on issues of arctic conservation, indigenous human rights, resource development, and climate change. In 2003 he published Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, a photo book of his fourteen-month long journey in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Through a Lannan Foundation grant, 10,000 copies of the book were donated to libraries and policy makers across the country. He was recently Director’s Visitor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, Distinguished Visiting Professor at Fordham University in New York. He has received a Distinguished Alumnus Award from New Mexico State University and a Cultural Freedom Award from Lannan Foundation. Banerjee lives in New York City.

Table of Contents

From Kolkata to Kaktovik En Route to Arctic Voices Something Like an Introduction	p. 1
Here's What You Can Do to Keep Wild Alive	p. 23
snapshot of now	p. 37
From Early Warming: Crisis and Response in the Climate-Changed North	p. 39
They Have No Ears	p. 53
BPing the Arctic?	p. 66
Teshekpuk in the Arctic's Biggest Wetland	p. 91
Protecting the Apples but Chopping the Trees	p. 107
pain and joy of being connected	p. 123
From Silent Snow: The Slow Poisoning of the Arctic	p. 125
The Fall of the Yukon Kings	p. 142
Following Cranes to the Arctic	p. 165
Broken Promises: The Reality of Big Oil in America's Arctic	p. 179
From Kivalina: A Climate Change Story	p. 207
we are the caribou people	p. 221
From People of the Deer	p. 223
Caribou Currency	p. 238
We'll Fight to Protect the Caribou Calving Ground and Gwich'in Way of Life	p. 254
Caribou Time	p. 270
arclic ocean is our garden	p. 285
From Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape	p. 287
We Will Fight to Protect the Arctic Ocean and Our Way of Life	p. 301
Dancing for the Whales: Kivgiq and Cultural Resilience Among the People of the Whales	p. 335
reporting from the field	p. 347
From Coming into the Country	p. 349
In the Great Country	p. 363
Coast to Coast: Perilous Journeys with Arctic Shorebirds	p. 375
In Calloused Human Hands: Tuullik, Teshekpuk, and Our Western Arctic	p. 387
decade, after decade, after decade...	p. 403
From Two in the Far North	p. 405
From Being Caribou	p. 417
From Midnight Wilderness	p. 430
Saving the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge	p. 439
we gather; we speak out; we organize	p. 451
A Brief History of Native Solidarity	p. 453
We'll Fight to Protect the Gwich'in Homeland and Our Way of Life Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge	p. 468
Past and Present, Culture in Progress	p. 486
From The Reindeer People: Living with Animals and Sprits in Siberia	p. 499
Acknowledgments	p. 517
Contributors	p. 519
Credits and Permissions	p. 530
Index	p. 532
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