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Accepted Paper:

Looking Back to Move Forward  
Rachel Edwardson (Naninaaq Productions)

Paper short abstract:

In the Arctic we are increasingly making policy decisions in a siloed manner. Climate change and on-going assimilationist policies (internal and external) means that now, more then ever, we need the wisdom, holistic and intergenerational thinking leadership that guided our ancestors.

Paper long abstract:

For us, as Iñupiaq people, life in the Arctic has changed drastically in a short period of time. We find ourselves facing a myriad of complex and interwoven issues that traverse social, political, spiritual, environmental and economic realms. Climate change, when added to on-going assimilationist policies (internal and external) means that now, more than ever to avoid the siloed thinking that informs so much policy, we need the wisdom and holistic leadership that guided our ancestors. By looking closely at the two brief case studies we are reminded of the principles that have sustained us in the Arctic for millennia:

1. The interdisciplinary, continued, way of life that is a whaling

culture and,

2. The Arctic Slope Regional Corporation

Panel P17
Northern Futures? Climate, Geopolitics, and Local Realities
  Session 1