The award-winning cookbook EALLU is the focus of Keven McGwin’s article that explores the deep-rooted tradition of reindeer herding, For a diverse group of Indigenous peoples’ how reindeer are raised to the distinct way in which the animal is prepared, reindeer are of great significance to indigenous food culture.

“People of the North” is a series of interviews created in partnership with Arctic in Context and Kesserwan Arteau, a legal and consulting firm that works with indigenous communities.

Every six weeks, Kesserwan Arteau founders Jean François Arteau and Karina Kesserwan will publish an interview with leaders, innovators, and community members in an effort to highlight the Arctic’s diversity from the perspectives of those who live there. 

This article is part of a series on Russian interests in the Arctic. Russia’s Arctic policies and postures are often misunderstood, overblown, or underrated because they take place in a complex regional context and result from complex internal politics. Morgane Fert-Malka explores the evolution of reindeer herding. Once a nomadic craft alone, some communities are “striving to develop a globalized and sustainable industry” without compromising a time-tested tradition.

World Policy On Air is a podcast from the pages and website of World Policy Journal. When Indigenous representatives began to draft a U.N. document enshrining the right to self-determination, many states worried that their proposals would open the door to secession. On today’s episode of World Policy On Air, University of Alaska professor Dalee

World Policy On Air is a podcast from the pages and website of World Policy Journal. Last year marked the 10th anniversary of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, the first international treaty to recognize Indigenous peoples’ right to self-determination. On today’s episode of World Policy On Air, editor Jessica Loudis discusses the

Marjolaine at Goerges River, after a 185-mile canoeing trip

“People of the North” is a series of interviews created in partnership with Arctic in Context and Kesserwan Arteau, a legal and consulting firm that works with indigenous communities.

Colonization and religious mission in the Canadian Arctic shamed and erased traditional Inuit beliefs about sexuality, gender, and family structure, but now a younger generation of Inuit are “unshaming” their past and reasserting their LGBTQ identities.

“People of the North” is a series of interviews created in partnership with Arctic in Context and Kesserwan Arteau, a legal and consulting firm that works with indigenous communities. Every six weeks, Kesserwan Arteau founders Jean François Arteau and Karina Kesserwan will publish an interview with leaders, innovators, and community members in an effort to highlight the Arctic’s diversity from the perspectives of those who live there.

This article is part of an Arctic in Context series featuring Winter 2017 Arctic Research Fellows from the International Policy Institute, in the Henry M. Jackson School at the University of Washington. This Arctic research program is dedicated to improving the transfer of research and expertise between higher education and the policy world in the area of global affairs.