Table of Contents
From Kolkata to Kaktovik En Route to Arctic Voices Something Like an Introduction Subhankar Banesjee 1
Here's What You Can Do to Keep Wild Alive Emilie Karrick Surrusco Cindy Shogan 23
Part 1 snapshot of now 37
From Early Warming: Crisis and Response in the Climate-Changed North Nancy Lord 39
They Have No Ears Riki Ott 53
BPing the Arctic? Subhankar Banerjee 66
Teshekpuk in the Arctic's Biggest Wetland Steve Zack Joe Liebezeit 91
Protecting the Apples but Chopping the Trees Andri Snær Magnason 107
Part 2 pain and joy of being connected 123
From Silent Snow: The Slow Poisoning of the Arctic Marla Cone 125
The Fall of the Yukon Kings Dan O'Neill 142
Following Cranes to the Arctic George Archibald 165
Broken Promises: The Reality of Big Oil in America's Arctic Pamela A. Miller 179
From Kivalina: A Climate Change Story Christine Shearer 207
Part 3 we are the caribou people 221
From People of the Deer Farley Mowat 223
Caribou Currency Seth Kantner 238
We'll Fight to Protect the Caribou Calving Ground and Gwich'in Way of Life Jonathon Solomon Sarah James Reverend Trimble Gilbert 254
Caribou Time Nick Jans 270
Part 4 arclic ocean is our garden 285
From Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape Barry Lopez 287
We Will Fight to Protect the Arctic Ocean and Our Way of Life Robert Thompson Rosemary Ahtuangaruak Caroline Cannon Earl Kingik 301
Dancing for the Whales: Kivgiq and Cultural Resilience Among the People of the Whales Chie Sakakibara 335
Part 5 reporting from the field 347
From Coming into the Country John McPhee 349
In the Great Country Peter Matthiessen 363
Coast to Coast: Perilous Journeys with Arctic Shorebirds Stephen Brown 375
In Calloused Human Hands: Tuullik, Teshekpuk, and Our Western Arctic Jeff Fair 387
Part 6 decade, after decade, after decade... 403
From Two in the Far North Margaret E. Murie 405
From Being Caribou Karsten Heuer 417
From Midnight Wilderness Debbie S. Miller 430
Saving the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge George B. Schaller 439
Part 7 we gather; we speak out; we organize 451
A Brief History of Native Solidarity Maria Shaa Tláa Williams 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 Chief Dacho Alexander Marilyn Savage Matthew Gilbert 468
Past and Present, Culture in Progress Velma Wallis 486
From The Reindeer People: Living with Animals and Sprits in Siberia Piers Vitebsky 499
Acknowledgments 517
Contributors 519
Credits and Permissions 530
Index 532