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	Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
		For Millenia, the Gwich'in have occupied the southern slopes of the Brooks Range in Alaska.
		Gwich'in means 'people of the caribou," an apt name for a cultural group that largely relies on this mammal for a major part of its economic sustenance.
		Gwich'in villagers most closely associated with the Porcupine caribou herd live in Arctic Village, Venetie, Fort Yukon, and Chalkyitsik in Alaska; and in Old Crow, Fort McPherson, Inuvik, and Aklavik in northwest Canada.
	arcticcircle.uconn.edu /ANWR/anwrgwichin.html (841 words)

	Gwich’in' Peoples of Alaska Hang in the Balance of US Presidential Elections. Drillbits & Tailings -11/22/2000 ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Even more significant, a nation of Athabaskan Indians, the Gwich'in people of Alaska and Canada who depend on the on the Porcupine Caribou Herd for their subsistence and culture just as their ancestors who lived as nomadic hunters and gatherers did many generations before.
		The land and the caribou are the foundation of the Gwich'in culture and life.
		In March 1999, the Gwich'in submitted a written intervention, detailing the threat of oil development to their way of life, to the United Nations 55th Session of the Commission on Human Rights.
	moles.org /ProjectUnderground/drillbits/5_18/1.html (798 words)

	Civilization.ca - The People-The Gwich'in (in detail)
		The Gwich'in, the northernmost Athapaskan-speaking group, traditionally occupied a vast expanse of land covering large portions of interior northern Alaska and Yukon with the easternmost groups living along the lower reaches of the Mackenzie Valley.
		The fate of the Nakotcho Gwich'in is the subject of some speculation on the part of ethnohistorian Shepard Krech who has proposed that severe changes were brought about by the introduction of diseases by the fur traders (and perhaps even the missionaries).
		Although the Gwich'in were active in the fur trade throughout the XIXth century, they remained on the land, shifting territories in response to the abundance of fur bearers and food animals.
	www.civilization.ca /archeo/nogap/pgwich.htm (1657 words)

	Gwich'in Steering Committee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The Gwich'in Steering Committee was formed in 1988 in response to increasing threats to open the coastal plain (also known as 1002 area) of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to leasing for oil.
		The Gwich’in Steering Committee announces the release of a new report which concludes that drilling in the Arctic Refuge would violate the human rights of the Gwich’in people because of the impacts drilling would have on Gwich’in subsistence, culture, and way of life.
		The report was prepared on behalf of, and under the auspices of, the Gwich’in Steering Committee along with the Episcopal Church and Professor Richard J. Wilson, Director of the International Human Rights Law Clinic at American University.
	www.gwichinsteeringcommittee.org (433 words)

	Gwich'in People - Agreements Database People
		The Gwich’in are members of the Athaspaskans people, which includes the Slavey, Dogrib, Han and Tutchone people.
		The Gwich’in now live primarily in the communities of Fort McPherson, Tsiigehtichic, Aklavik and Inuvik where their population stands at approximately 2,500 people.
		Gwich'in and Inuvialuit Self-Government Agreement-In-Principle for the Beaufort-Delta Region (2003)
	www.atns.net.au /biogs/A000836b.htm (206 words)

	Gwichin Territorial Park Reserve- Tourism and Parks, ITI, GNWT, Canada
		Gwich'in Territorial Park Reserve is located on the Dempster Highway, your route to the Arctic Ocean, and beyond.
		Largely undeveloped as yet, it is managed by the Gwich'in Tribal Council, a native peoples' organization that holds land rights in the region.
		The next nearest NWT parks with camping facilities are located at Jak park 17 Km to the north just outside Inuvik; and 173 Km south at Nitainlaii Park, south of Fort McPherson.
	www.iti.gov.nt.ca /parks/parks_f_j/gwichin_territorial_park_reserve.htm (391 words)

	CBC North - Natives demand leaders learn language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Members of the Gwich'in Nation want their leaders to speak a language few people can understand.
		Gwich'in delegate Sarah Jerome says language has to be a priority.
		One problem facing the Gwich'in is that the nation is spread across two territories and one state.
	www.cbc.ca /north/story/ju11gwilang.html (395 words)

	READ 255 Watsonville Class - QuickTopic free message board hosting
		Though the Gwich'in rely largely on caribou, they also fish and hunt moose, sheep and smaller game.
		Gwich'in wanted to work at Cariboy for the oil industry, but was never acomplish.
		Gwich'in have been working to thwart ongoing attempts by the oil industry and some lawmakers to drill in the coastal.
	www.quicktopic.com /19/H/YNNPPJscXjx (593 words)

	Arctic Village, Alaska . . . the home of the Neets'aii Gwichin
		Until the 1950s, the Neets'aii Gwichin ("residents of the north side") lived a highly nomadic life.
		Reverend Albert Tritt, a Neets'aii Gwich'in born in 1880, wrote that his people led a nomadic life, traveling to the Arctic coast, Rampart, Old Crow, the Coleen River and Fort Yukon in the 1880s and 1890s.
		With the advent of firearms in the early 1900s, family groups began to gather more permanently at several locations; there was no longer a need to disperse into small groups to hunt caribou.
	www.vergie.com /arctic.html (543 words)

	Gwich'n Nation calls on all supporters to take urgent action now to protect Arctic refuge
		The fate of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is the fate of the Gwich'in Nation.
		The Gwich'in need your help now to defend this sacred place from the desperate attempts of industry and the White house to violate the birthplace and nursery of the Porcupine Caribou Herd, the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
		In no case may a people be deprived of their own means of subsistence Regardless of how much oil may be in the refuge, it is morally wrong to expect the Gwich'in to sacrifice their way of life to meet this country's energy needs.
	www.hartford-hwp.com /archives/41/413.html (1485 words)

	Re: foolishness
		The tribe I mentioned as opposing drilling was the Gwichin.
		As you know, the porcupines move in a giant half circle through Gwichin Territory to their calving grounds on the North Slope.
		The porcupine herds have been decreasing in number for some years - without the help of Man - unless the Gwichin hunters have been doing some extra killing, which is doubtful.
	www.mail-archive.com /futurework@scribe.uwaterloo.ca/msg02906.html (592 words)

	Gwich'in Language (Gwichin, Kutchin, Kootchin, Gwitchin, Tukudh, Loucheux)
		Gwichin is an Athabascan language of Alaska and Northern Canada.
		Audio language lessons in Gwichin from the Yukon Native Language Centre.
		Two books about the Gwich'in people's struggle to preserve the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and their traditional way of life.
	www.native-languages.org /gwichin.htm (234 words)

	WHAT YOU CAN DO: URGENT—Demand National Monument Status for the Artic National Wildlife Refuge. Drillbits & ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		We are writing you on behalf of the Gwichin' Nation to thank you for your courageous leadership on the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge issue.
		The Gwich'in culture and way of life is intrinsically connected to the Porcupine Caribou Herd to meet all of their essential needs for survival.
		The Gwich'in call this are "The Sacred Place Where Life Begins." Besides being the important birthplace to the caribou it is the denning area for Polar Bears, nesting area for 135 species of migratory birds and year round home to musk oxen.
	www.moles.org /ProjectUnderground/drillbits/5_19/do.html (538 words)

	Bemidji State University Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Leach and Solomon will explain the traditional ways of the Gwichin Athabaskan natives and the potential cultural impacts of oil development on their way of life.
		Its coastal plain, often referred to as America's Serengeti, is the core calving area of the porcupine caribou herd and is home to polar bears, musk-oxen, grizzly bears, wolves and over 130 species of migratory birds.
		The area is a sacred place for Gwichin native people from Alaska and Canada, who depend on the caribou herd for subsistence and cultural identity.
	info.bemidji.msus.edu /news/outdoor/alaskanoildev.php (219 words)

	Who We Are Gwich'in Steering Committee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The Gwich’in people's creation story tells that the Gwich’in will always keep a part of the caribou heart, and the caribou will always keep a part of the Gwich’in heart.
		The biological heart of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, known to the Gwich’in as Iizhik Gwats’an Gwandaii Goodlit (the Sacred Place Where Life Begins), is the calving and nursery ground of the Porcupine caribou herd.
		To allow such an appalling exploitation would write yet another chapter with the same tragic theme as the history of the Plains Indians and the buffalo, and those who deny this truth must emerge from the shadows of their greed-based motives.
	www.gwichinsteeringcommittee.org /whoweare.html (674 words)

	Employer Details (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		We are an aboriginal land claim organization representing over 2700 Gwich'in people from the Four Delta Communities.
		And Gwich'in people living in Canada and around the world.
		Gwich'in land, culture & economy for a better future
	www.workboot.ca /SearchEmployer/ViewEmployerDetails.asp?ID=1937 (36 words)

	Replies
		The truth regarding the Gwich’ins opposition to drilling ANWR has nothing to do with the sacred Porcupine Caribou herds, which have steadily increased since the Prudhoe Bay drilling began.
		The Gwich'ins authorized drilling on their own lands but unfortunately for them, no oil was found.
		More to the point, the Gwich'ins are jealously angry that the Inupiats will profit more if ANWR is drilled because it would be on Inupiat soil.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/fr/630195/replies?c=21 (215 words)

	Protect the Arctic Refuge. Support Gwichin to remove ANWAR from the budget bill.
		The Gwich'in Nation gathered in Gwichyaa Zhee (one of the Gwich'in villages) earlier this summer and called upon the Gwich'in Steering Committee to lead this national effort.
		The location underscores the striking parallels between the tragic history of the Plains Indians who relied on buffalo for their subsistence until the policy of the United States decimated the herds and the current Gwichin fight to protect the caribou on which they depend.
		At the launch Gwichin leaders will describe the moral significance of the decision that Congress must make in September: the lives and livelihood of the Gwichin people or oil company profits.
	www.ienearth.org /arctic_refuge-drumsong.html (630 words)

	john swords dot com: ANWR Drilling Facts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		For a thousand generations, the Gwich'in people of Northeast Alaska and Northwest Canada have depended on it and lived in harmony with it.
		The Borrioboola-Gha, the so-called "Gwich'in people," a native tribe that lives less than 150 miles away from the proposed drilling site authorized oil drilling on their own land in the same region.
		Kerry also forgets to mention that the Gwich'in tribe uses all-terrain vehicles, high-powered rifles and snowmobiles to chase caribou into the river and shoot them in large numbers.
	www.johnswords.com /archives/2005/03/the_facts_on_an.html (1453 words)

	Global Exchange : Elaine Alexie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Elaine Alexie, as a member of the Tetlit Gwichin First Nation from Fort McPherson, Northwest Territory, Canada, was raised in a traditional lifestyle, learning that the land will be there for generations of we take care of it.
		She sits on the board of the Arctic Children and Youth Foundation of Canada and for over seven years Elaine has been actively involved with the campaign to protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in northeast Alaska from proposed oil and gas development.
		As a northern community coordinator, Elaine produced a short documentary called "Vadzaih: Gwichin Youth on the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge", an eight minute film which portrays the perspectives of the current generation of Gwichin youth on development which threatens the Porcupine Caribou Herd; a large part of their food and spiritual sustenance.
	globalexchange.org /getInvolved/speakers/123.html (412 words)

	[A-List] Protect the Sacred Land Where Life Begins: The Gwich'in Nation needs your help now! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Girl at River The Gwich'in Nation of Northeast Alaska and Northwest Canada have a unified longstanding position to seek permanent protection of “Iizhik Gwats’an Gwandaii Goodlit” The Sacred Place Where Life Begins, the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
		Our Gwich’in villages are located along the migratory paths of the caribou.
		The area where we live is virtually the same as the range of the caribou and our villages are strategically set along the migratory routes of the caribou.
	lists.econ.utah.edu /pipermail/a-list/2005-March/033474.html (716 words)

	Stop the Akaka Bill (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The Gwichin people are not Eskimos and are an
		Gwichin supported exploring for oil in their homeland, south of ANWR and
		mistake, the Gwichin and Inupiat are as diverse, as intelligent, as
	www.stopakaka.com /2003/danner2.html (2386 words)

	CorpWatch : Gwich'in Nation Calls Gathering in Alaska
		The young people of the Gwichin Nation called a meeting in Arctic Village, Alaska June 21st to 25th to discuss in length and depth the current threat that is heating up in Congress.
		Because of the impact oil drilling will have on the future of our young generation it is imperative that we gather at this time to build our strength and pride as a people and as a community.
		The remainder of the agenda will be decided by the Gwichin Chiefs, the Arctic Village Council, the Gwich'in Steering Committee, and the chosen young people with guidance of Evon Peter, Chief of Arctic Village.
	www.corpwatch.org /article.php?id=436 (826 words)

	Alaska Division of Trade and Development
		Among those opposed to oil activities in the refuge are the Gwichin Indians, who live on both sides of the border in northeast Alaska and northwest Canadian arctic communities on the edge of the refuge.
		The Gwichin lead a subsistence way of life and depend on the Porcupine caribou herd, which migrates across the Alaska-Yukon border.
		Tulsequah Chief Mine, B.C. The State of Alaska opposes development of the Tulsequah Chief mine in British Columbia east of Juneau as a potential environmental threat to Alaska fisheries.
	www.gov.state.ak.us /trade/2003/tad/canada/canadaissues.htm (532 words)

	Madison Women for Peace: Think Pink!
		For Elaine, who was raised in the tradition of the Tetlit Gwichin First Nation, there is no question that human communities and natural ecosystems are intertwined.
		The Gwichin are already experiencing the effects of global warming - caribou herds are shifting their migration patterns, fish are changing their spawning habits, sea ice is thinning and forest fires are becoming more commonplace.
		Global warming is not an issue to be debated in the abstract, but a threat to their traditions and livelihood that must be overcome.
	www.madwomen.org /2005_02_01_ (425 words)

	ANWR Feature - ANWR: New Congress' learning curve is steep
		Dangerous because of all the boxes that clutter the dismally small office space allocated to the freshmen members, and steep because of the sudden influx of issues quite foreign to the members' experience or district.
		For example, what does one do when a bunch of Gwichin Indians and affluent Sierra Clubbers come to a congressional office and tell hair-raising tales of impending genocide and environmental desecration committed by the ugly oil companies in far distant Arctic Alaska?
		During the past month, Arctic Power, which represents the position of 71 percent of Alaskans who want the coastal plain of ANT~R opened to responsible oil and gas development, has been quietly educating members of Congress, old and new, on where the issue stands and what is myth in the environmentalists' arguments.
	www.anwr.org /features/herrera.htm (679 words)

	ICT [2000/03/29] Oldest living couple sets world record
		DAWSON CITY, Yukon - A Gwichin First Nation couple from the Yukon has done something that no other couple in the world has done.
		The First Nations couple, both in their early 100s, were born and raised near the Mackenzie mountains in the north east part of the Yukon.
		They are both hard-working, who have lived off the land their whole lives, said Georgette McLeod, a spokeswoman for the Gwichin Band office.
	www.indiancountry.com /content.cfm?id=2592 (240 words)

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