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	Inuit Circumpolar Conference - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Inuit Circumpolar Conference or ICC, is an multinational non-governmental organization representing the 150,000 Inuit living in Canada (Inuvialuit (Northwest Territories), Nunavut, Nunavik (Northern Quebec), and Nunatsiavut (Labrador)), Inupiat and Yupik living in Alaska in the United States, Kalaallit living in Greenland, and Siberian Yupik living on the Russian Chukchi Peninsula.
		ICC holds a General Assembly every four years, bringing together Inuit from across the northern circumpolar region to discuss issues of international importance to their communities, provide direction for the work of the organization over the next four years, and divide responsibility for issue areas between the national offices.
		The Chair of the Inuit Circumpolar Youth Council (2006-2010) is Megan Alvanna-Stimpfle.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Inuit_Circumpolar_Conference (526 words)

	Inuit - Free net encyclopedia
		The Inuit living in North America have in the past been grouped together with other Native Americans, but they are now thought to have arrived in the Americas entirely separately from other indigenous Americans, long after the disappearance of the Bering land bridge.
		The Inuit looked into the aurora borealis, or northern lights, to find images of their family and friends dancing in the next life, and they relied upon the shaman, while the nearest thing to a central deity was the Old Woman (Sedna), who lived beneath the sea.
		Inuit culture is alive and vibrant today in spite of the negative impact of the Arctic exiles, residential schools, the TB epidemic and exiles, the paternalistic meddling in all their affairs including the current serious concerns regarding the removal of Inuit children from their homes by the CAS.
	www.netipedia.com /index.php/Inuit (4860 words)

	Inuit Circumpolar Conference (Canada) - Inuit Circumpolar Conference (ICC) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		To thrive in their circumpolar homeland, Inuit had the vision to realize they must speak with a united voice on issues of common concern and combine their energies and talents towards protecting and promoting their way of life.
		ICC holds a General Assembly every four years at which delegates from across the circumpolar region elect a new Chair and an executive council, develop policies, and adopt resolutions that will guide the activities of the organization for the coming term.
		The ICC international office is housed with the Chair and each member country maintains a national office under the political guidance of a president.
	www.inuitcircumpolar.com /index.php?ID=16&Lang=En (282 words)

	Inuit Indians - Crystalinks
		The Inuit looked into the aurora borealis, or northern lights, to find images of their family and friends dancing in the next life, and they relied upon the shaman, while the nearest thing to a central deity was the Old Woman, who lived beneath the sea.
		The Inuit, a once self-sufficient people in an extremely harsh environment, were in the span of perhaps two generations transformed into a small, impoverished minority lacking skills or resources to sell to the larger economy, but increasingly dependent on it for day to day survival.
		This was a real wake-up call for Inuit, and it stimulated the emergence of a new generation of young Inuit activists in the late 1960s who came forward and pushed for respect for the Inuit and their territories.
	www.crystalinks.com /inuit.html (3494 words)

	Inuit - MSN Encarta
		” In 1977 the Inuit Circumpolar Conference, held in Barrow, Alaska, officially adopted Inuit as the replacement for the term “Eskimo.” There are several related linguistic groups of Arctic peoples, including the Kalaallit in Greenland, the Inuvialuit in Canada, and the Inupiat, Yupiget, Yuplit, and Alutiit in Alaska.
		The Inuit vary within about 5 cm (about 2 in) of an average height of 163 cm (5 ft 4 in), and they display metabolic, circulatory, and other adaptations to the Arctic climate.
		There, Inuit culture was influenced by medieval Norse colonists and, after 1700, by Danish settlers.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761561130/Inuit.html (708 words)

	Inuit Circumpolar Conference - Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Inuit Circumpolar Conference is an internal organization representing approximately 130,000 Inuit living in the Arctic, (and some sub-Arctic) regions of Canada, Alaska, Greenland, and Chukota, Russia.
		The ICC is active in a wide range of international forums, such as the International Whaling Commission, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, the Arctic Environmental Protection Strategy, the Arctic Leaders Summit, as well as various UN working groups and agencies.
		The ICC President and Executive Council are elected every three years at the ICC General Assembly which brings together delegates from across the circumpolar north to develop policy guidelines and resolutions to direct the Executive Council in its work.
	www.ainc-inac.gc.ca /ch/dec/circon_e.html (501 words)

	ICC Alaska \| Inuit Circumpolar Conference Alaska
		The ICC (Inuit Circumpolar Conference) is an international organization which represents the Inuit people of the Arctic.
		Montreal, 4 December 2005 –Amidst the UN Climate Change Conference being held here, the Executive Council of the Inuit Circumpolar Conference (ICC) met to sketch out the details for its 2006 General Assembly, which will be held in Barrow, Alaska.
		ICC Chair, Sheila Watt-Cloutier said “ICC has accomplished much since it was established in 1977, but now we all agree it is time to look ahead and determine exactly what Inuit need in an international organization such as this”.
	www.iccalaska.org (358 words)

	Inuit Circumpolar Conference (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		From July 9th through the 14th, 2006, the Inuit Circumpolar Conference and it's elders and youth affiliate organizations, the International Inuit Elders Council and the Inuit Circumpolar Youth Council gathered in Barrow, Alaska for ICC’s 10th General Assembly.
		Yet, all Inuit people are united behind the practice of a traditional subsistence economy that has enabled the Inuit to thrive in the harshest environments on this earth.
		Yet all Inuit people are united by the urgency to revitalize the Inuit dialects among the younger generations and incorporate traditional knowledge systems into western education.
	www.firstalaskans.org /735.cfm (656 words)

	CARC - Northern Perspectives (Volume 21, Number 4, Winter 1993-94)
		The ICC was given the mandate to help strengthen unity among its peoples across national borders, to promote Inuit rights and interests on an international level, to seek active participation in the cultural, social, and economic development of the circumpolar region, and to ensure the protection of the fragile arctic environment.
		But in the end, circumpolar Inuit agreed that a comprehensive arctic policy was necessary and, at the 1983 ICC General Assembly in Iqaluit, delegates gave the ICC a mandate to develop a systematic approach to the problems facing the circumpolar region.
		Circumpolar Inuit have taken a lead role in policy and programme development in the Arctic, and their contribution will be present in any comprehensive vision or strategy for the Arctic.
	www.carc.org /pubs/v21no4/moving.htm (3716 words)

	Encyclopedia of the Arctic
		Chair of the Inuit Circumpolar Conference since 2002, Sheila Watt-Cloutier is recognized for her untiring efforts on behalf of Arctic indigenous peoples worldwide and, in particular, the Aboriginal peoples of Northern Canada.
		Her distinctive and authoritative voice as an Inuit leader is heard internationally at the highest political levels as well as at the local level in northern communities.
		As president of the Inuit Circumpolar Conference (Canada), she coordinated annual humanitarian missions to Russian Aboriginal groups in Chukotka supported by North American government agencies and northern organizations such as the North Slope Borough in Barrow, Alaska.
	www.routledge-ny.com /ref/arctic/watt.html (1410 words)

	Inuit Circumpolar Conference (Canada) - Inuit Petition Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to Oppose Climate ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Sheila Watt-Cloutier, the elected Chair of the Inuit Circumpolar Conference (ICC), today submitted a petition to the Washington DC-based Inter-American Commission on Human Rights seeking relief from violations of the human rights of Inuit resulting from global warming caused by greenhouse gas emissions from the United States of America.
		The petition focuses on the United States of America because it is by far the largest emitter of greenhouse gases and it refuses to join the international effort to reduce emissions.
		We submit this petition not in a spirit of confrontation—that is not the Inuit way—but as a means of inviting and promoting dialogue with the United States of America within the context of the climate change convention.
	www.inuitcircumpolar.com /index.php?ID=316&Lang=En (832 words)

	Inuit
		It is hypothesized that the nomadic Inuit people originated in northeastern Siberia and that around 2,000 BC they began to migrate eastward across the Bering Straits to Alaska and then across northern Canada to Greeenland in widely separated communities.
		The Inuit Circumpolar Conference has a commission dedicated to the preservation of Inuit and the development of a common writing system for the language.
		The Nunavut dialects of Inuit have fifteen consonants.
	www.nvtc.gov /lotw/months/october/Inuit.html (989 words)

	InuitBooklet.html
		That the Inuit Circumpolar Conference is formed and that an interim Inuit Circumpolar Committee be appointed to be responsible for the development of the Charter, which Committee will be made up of four representatives of each of Alaska, Greenland and Canada for a total of twelve.
		NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that this Inuit Circumpolar Conference call upon the Governments of Canada, Newfoundland and Quebec to acknowledge their responsibility to uphold the aboriginal rights of the Labrador Inuit and to indicate their willingness to enter into negotiations with the Labrador Inuit for a just settlement of their claims.
		The interim Inuit Circumpolar Committee, charged by the Conference to establish the authorities and provide the legal framework for a continuing organization, will be meeting in the near future.
	www.ebenhopson.com /icc/ICCBooklet.html (4524 words)

	General Assembly - Inuit Circumpolar Conference, 2006 - Barrow, Alaska
		Issues that will be tackled include; Arctic climate change; protecting the Arctic Ocean as shippers and extractive industries increase their use of the waters; whaling; fair exchange for sharing traditional knowledge and practices; and Arctic pollution.
		Inuit have been at the forefront of these issues for the past few years.
		This year, the assembly is returning to its roots in Barrow, where ICC was founded in 1977.
	www.north-slope.org /nsb/ICCbarrow/index.php (149 words)

	Inuit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Inuit (Inuktitut syllabics, singular Inuk / ᐃᓄᒃ) is a general term for a group of culturally similar indigenous peoples inhabiting the Arctic coasts of Siberia, Alaska, the Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Quebec, Labrador, and Greenland.
		The Inuit living in North America have in the past been grouped together with other Indigenous Peoples, but they are now thought to have arrived in the continent entirely separately from other First Peoples, long after the disappearance of the Beringia land bridge.
		Some Inuit looked into the aurora borealis, or northern lights, to find images of their family and friends dancing in the next life, and they relied upon the shaman, while the nearest thing to a central deity was the Old Woman (Sedna), who lived beneath the sea.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Inuit (5101 words)

	Inuit Circumpolar Conference plans human rights action against US for damage to the Arctic caused by global warming ...
		Melting of sea ice exposes Inuit dwellings to storms and erosion and poses a mortal danger to Inuit hunters and their prey.
		CIEL is working with the ICC and Earthjustice to use human rights law to protect the Arctic and its peoples from the impacts of global warming.
		In June, the ICC Executive Council adopted a resolution authorizing the Chair to develop such a claim.
	www.ciel.org /Climate/ICC_Arctic_23Dec03.html (333 words)

	General Information - ICC - www.inuit.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The ICC has been instrumental in the work on the declaration since the very beginning of its development.
		instrument the Inuit drum is a symbol of unity and tolerance.
		The Inuit Circumpolar Conference (ІСС) is the international organization representing approximately 150.000 Inuit living in the Arctic regions of Alaska, Canada, Greenland and Chukotka, Russia.
	www.inuit.org /index.asp?lang=eng&num=2 (314 words)

	Arctic Inuit sue U.S. govt over global warming pollution
		The Inuit Circumpolar Conference (ICC) says that by failing to control emissions of greenhouse gases, the US is damaging the livelihoods those living in the Arctic.
		The Inuit are a group of indigenous peoples inhabiting the Arctic coasts of Siberia, Alaska, the Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Québec, Labrador and Greenland.
		This story includes a modified news release ("Inuit Petition Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to Oppose Climate Change Caused by the United States of America") from the Inuit Circumpolar Conference.
	news.mongabay.com /2005/1208-icc.html (1320 words)

	The Inuit Circumpolar Conference
		To strengthen unity among Inuit of the circumpolar region.
		The ICC has played a significant role in the Arctic Environmental Protection Strategy (AEPS), in which the eight Arctic nations, the ICC, the Saami Council and the Association of Indigenous Peoples of the Russian North are working actively to protect the fragile Arctic environment.
		The United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (Earth Summit) held in Rio de Janeiro in 1992 was a milestone for the participating nations of the world.
	www.randburg.com /gr/inuitcir.html (656 words)

	Inuit story and the lies- Harpseals.org
		Sheila Watt-Cloutier the chair of the Inuit Circumpolar Conference and Duane Smith, the President of the Conference have both denounced Sir Paul McCartney and Lady Heather Mills McCartney's visit to see the new born seals in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
		Not a single protest had ever been mounted against Inuit seal hunters yet it was these Inuit seal-hunters that the government portrayed as the victims of the protestors.
		This is the same reason the Inuit of Greenland and the government of Greenland have condemned the Canadian slaughter of hundreds of thousands of seal pups.
	www.harpseals.org /hunt/press/inuit.html (1776 words)

	Sheila Watt-Cloutier: Canadian Inuit Activist Slams US on Climate Change - Agence France-Presse 15jun2005
		OSLO — A Canadian Inuit activist fired a salvo Wednesday at Washington which she accused of doing nothing to help stop the climate change that is threatening the way of life of the Arctic's native peoples.
		Elected to represent the 155,000 Inuits living in the Arctic in the Inuit Circumpolar Conference, Watt-Cloutier is preparing to submit a petition to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to pressure the US to act.
		A long-time political spokesperson for the Inuit, Watt-Cloutier, is actively engaged in climate change initiatives with the aim of persuading states to reduce their emissions of greenhouse gases and the use of toxins.
	www.mindfully.org /Air/2005/Watt-Cloutier-Inuit15jun05.htm (1314 words)

	AlterNet: The Arctic: Earth's Early Warning System
		The Inuit are already suffering dramatic changes to their Arctic environment, warns a native leader.
		Inuit hunters and elders have been observing changes to their environment for decades, Watt-Cloutier said, including unpredictable weather, melting of permafrost and glaciers, decreasing sea ice, as well as the presence of new species such as barn owls, robins and mosquitoes never seen before by the Inuit people.
		The ACIA is an international team of 300 scientists, experts, and indigenous residents of the Arctic region who are preparing a comprehensive analysis of the impacts and consequences of climate variability and changes across the region.
	www.alternet.org /story/19930 (1285 words)

	Open Directory - Society: Ethnicity: The Americas: Indigenous: Inuit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		A sample of the Inuit art collection that was donated to the Institute by the Department of Indian Affairs and the North, Canada.
		Cape Dorset Inuit Art and Inuit Cultural Perspectives - Links the graphic work of some of the famous artists from the community of Cape Dorset with the memories, myths and legends of elders from the community of Igloolik.
		Inuit Circumpolar Conference (ICC) - International organization representing approximately 150,000 Inuit living in the Arctic regions of Alaska, Canada, Greenland and Chukotka, Russia.
	dmoz.org /Society/Ethnicity/The_Americas/Indigenous/Inuit (672 words)

	Inuit to File Anti-US Climate Petition
		OSLO - Inuit hunters threatened by a melting of the Arctic ice plan to file a petition accusing Washington of violating their human rights by fueling global warming, an Inuit leader said on Wednesday.
		Sheila Watt-Cloutier, chair of the Inuit Circumpolar Conference (ICC), also said Washington was hindering work to follow up a 2004 report by 250 scientists that said the thaw could make the Arctic Ocean ice-free in summer by 2100.
		The Inuit hope that the commission will agree that climate change is tantamount to a U.S. abuse of their human rights by thinning the ice on which hunters depend and by threatening species ranging from polar bears to seals.
	www.commondreams.org /headlines05/0615-05.htm (598 words)

	Inuit - MSN Encarta
		Since the late 20th century the Inuit have become more assertive, forming organizations to represent their interests, such as the Alaska Federation of Natives (1966).
		In 1991 the Canadian government, yielding to ongoing Inuit pressure, agreed to the creation of a new territory known as Nunavut (Inuktitut for 'our land') in eastern Northwest Territories.
		It provides a forum for Greenland and North American Inuit to discuss common problems, lobby for an Inuit voice in the planning of economic development, and promote the preservation of the environment.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761561130_3/Inuit.html (248 words)

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