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arctica 38 - Kalender 2016

Den Haag, 21 december 2015

Beste Arctica-lezer, 

Dagelijks hebben wij het over Rusland, maar weet u dat de Russische Federatie uit 22 republieken bestaat? Een daarvan is de autonome Republiek Sacha (ook wel Jakoetië) in het noordoosten van Siberië. Naast Jakoeten en Russen wonen er inheemse volken als Evenen, Evenken, Dolganen en Joekagieren.

De Arctica kalender 2016 geeft een beeld van de Joekagieren, een van de bedreigde Arctische inheemse volken. Dr. Cecilia Odé van de Universiteit van Amsterdam doet onderzoek naar verdwijnende talen als het Joekagier en is zo vriendelijk geweest de foto's voor deze kalender beschikbaar te stellen.

Met uw financiële hulp kan Arctic Peoples Alert doorgaan met het onder de aandacht brengen van de Arctische inheemse volken zoals de Joekagieren. Een bijdrage kunt u overmaken op bankrekeningnummer NL91 INGB 0000 040092 (BIC: INGBNL2A) t.n.v. Arctic Peoples Alert.
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Stemmen uit de Toendra - De laatste der Joekagieren
 

The Hague, 21 December 2015

Dear Arctic reader,
Every day we are talking about Russia, but do you know that the Russian Federation consists of 22 republics? One is the Autonomous Republic Sacha (Yakutia) in northeastern Siberia. Besides Yakut’s and Russians there living indigenous peoples as Evens, Evenki, Dolgany and Yukaghir’s.
The Arctic Calendar 2016 gives an idea of the Yukaghir’s, one of the endangered Arctic indigenous peoples. Dr.Cecilia Odé of the University of Amsterdam researches vanishing languages like Yukaghir and has been kind enough to make the images available for this calendar.
With your financial help to Arctic Peoples Alert continue to raise awareness of the Arctic indigenous peoples such as the Yukaghir’s. A contribution can be transferred to bank account NL91 INGB 0000 040 092 (BIC: INGBNL2A) attn. Arctic Peoples Alert.
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Yacutia: Indigenous Peoples prevent Diamond Mining

Evenk are an indigenous community in the republic of Sakha (Yakutia) in Russia's far east. As described by The Red Book of the People of Russia: the Evenks inhabit a huge territory of the Siberian taiga from the River Ob in the west to the Okhotsk Sea in the east, and from the Arctic Ocean in the north, to Manchuria and Sakhalin in the south.
The Association of Indigenous Peoples of Sakha Republic (Yakutia), has reported the news (in Russian) that the Evenk community has eventually managed to stop the mining company "Almazy Anbara" from starting a diamond mine on their sacred river. As reported by the Association of Indigenous Peoples of Yakutia, Yakutia's Minister of nature protection of Sakhamin Afanasyev, announced the denial of a license to the company at a parliamentary session on 16 June in Yakutsk.
Earlier this year, at a public hearing held March 23, 2015 the inhabitants of Zhilinda village in Olenek Evenki district had voted unanimously against allowing the exploration work along the the sacred river Malaya Kuonapka and its tributary Maspaky. This is the first time for indigenous peoples in Yakutia to halt the issuing of a license to an extractive industries enterprise.
Before this vote, the villagers had approved three of the planned sites and only voted against the fourth. The river is revered by the Evenks as a sacred site. Furthermore, it is their only source of clean drinking water and as an important hunting and fishing site.
Source:The Association of Indigenous Peoples of Sakha Republic.  
Written by Federica  | 26 June 2015
http://arcticportal.org/library/news/1488-yacutia-indigenous-people-prevent-diamond-mining-in-the-sacred-river 

Humans = Seals

Finn Lynge 1933 - 2014

In Memorial Finn Lynge

Nuuk, 22 April 1933 – Qaqortoq, 4 April 2014

Finn Lynge passed away in the South of Greenland aged eighty. We not only lost an extraordinary man. He was an exceptional Greenlandic world citizen, advocate for the environment and the indigenous rights and a man who saw the big picture.

He visited the Netherlands many times to participate in sessions of the International Court of Justice in The Hague, the International Whaling Commission, to give lectures, and in the last years in relation to the Earth Charter in which he actively participated. He tried to get other Greenlanders involved in the Earth Charter and brought in Narsaq Agenda 21 in practice.

He made the Greenlandic government aware of the exhibition of human remains in the West-Frisian Museum in Hoorn, The Netherlands which claimed these belong to a Greenlander. Do to investigation by the Greenlandic government it became clear that the remains are not from a Greenlander.

Since we met in Echternach, Luxembourg, in the nineteen eighties, he has learned me a lot. We often discussed the developments around the so called seal issue. The last years he got tired fighting against the import ban on skins of seals (now even a ban on all products of seals). This ban has enormous impact on Inuit in the Arctic who depend on the hunt on seals. But in the EU there is little understanding. Everyone who fights for animal rights should read his book Arctic Wars, Animal Rights, Endangered Peoples (1992).

Finn was a teller of many anecdotes. Once a friend and I met him in the streets of Helsingør and visited him. Finn showed my friend his bone of a walrus penis. My friend earned one point by recognizing this. After that came an auditory ossicle of a whale. Another point. Then came a hair of a mammoth… Then there was the repeated  anecdote about kasuutta (cheers) and op je gezondheid (to your health), which are pronounced in a similar way, which is perhaps explained by the Dutch roots of whalers and traders visiting the west coast of Greenland in the seventeen century before priest Hans Egede landed near Nuuk on a “Dutch” vessel in 1721.

Besides The Hague and Brussels we met mostly in København, the last time in 2010 during the presentation of a new book. In 2008, when he became 75, I was present at his symposium in Narsaq. From there, he went to København and we travelled together, but no place to sit together. So during the whole flight from Narsarssuaq to Kastrup we stood in the isle in the middle of the plane discussing as Finn wrote: “our common efforts to understand our own time”.

I will miss his inspiring talks and hope that his legacy will live on. I wish a great deal of strength to Rie, family, friends and the Greenlandic community. 
Govert de Groot, Arctic Peoples Alert

IJsbeer contra Shell

Bron: Guardian

Geplaatst: 20.11.2013

Welkom 2013

Shell seeks OK from whalers

Federal regulators on Thursday gave Royal Dutch Shell the green light to move forward with preliminary well work in the Beaufort Sea off northeast Alaska as soon as the subsistence whaling season ends.

The company is also working to obtain support from Inupiat Eskimo whalers that could allow Shell to move its drill rig over the Sivalluq prospect in the Beaufort, 20 miles north of Point Thomson off Alaska's northeast coast, Shell spokesman Curtis Smith said.

In an accord with Inupiat whalers, Shell and other oil companies have agreed to keep drill ships away from prospects during the subsistence whaling season in the villages of Nuiqsut and Kaktovik. The deal stemmed from fear that noise from ships and anchor lines would disturb migrating bowhead whales and push them farther from shore, making hunting more dangerous or impossible.

Source: Alex DeMarban, Sep 20, 2012 www.alaskadispatch.com