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| | The Threat of Climate Change to Arctic Human Communities |
 | | Today the region is culturally, politically, demographically and economically diverse, with settlements ranging from small indigenous communities to modern industrial cities. |
| | Indigenous cultures include Aleuts, who live primarily in coastal southwest Alaska; Inuit, who live on the coast and inland from northwestern Alaska east to Greenland; and Athabascans, who live mainly inland in eastern Alaska, the central Yukon, and the Northwest Territories of Canada; Dene, Saami, and Native groups in northern Russia. |
| | Norma Kassi, of the Vunut Gwich'in people in the community of Old Crow on the Porcupine River, Yukon Territory, writes of the traditional subsistence-based life of her people, their deep feeling for this way of life, and their dependence on wildlife and other resources: "Our people are directly affected by global climate change... |
| archive.greenpeace.org /comms/97/arctic/library/region/people.html (3014 words) |
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