Canada’s North is a region as vast as it is diverse. Modern conveniences exist alongside thriving traditional cultures in a region that faces both challenges and opportunities. Canada is working hard with its partners in the Arctic Council to ensure economic and environment development will be sustainable throughout the circumpolar region and that the benefits

The Native Organization of Indigenous Scholars (NOIS) was created to bring together University of Washington graduate and professional students of Indigenous descent. By building a supportive community in which to network, socialize and share stories/theories, we aim to examine conceptions of culture, knowledge, and power through an Indigenous lens. It is our hope that sharing

Dominic Maltais, Task Force on the Arctic 2011, is now with the Secretariat aux affaires autochtones with the Government of Québec. Here she poses with Jean-François Arteau, special advisor to the Minister, and colleague of Canadian Studies.

Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellows met with Mohamed Abdel-Kader (far right) to discuss the benefits of language training. Jason Young (third from left) is a current FLAS Fellows with Canadian Studies for Inuktitut. Jason is a doctoral student in Geography.

Above: Justin Kim, Director General of Strategy Research Devision, Head of Polar Policy Research Center, Korea Maritime Institute, signs contract with UW. In Winter Quarter the Center signed a $30,000 research contract with the Korean Maritime Institute to host a meeting and publication on the growing role of the Inuit in Canada. The three-year contract

Above: Jason Young (left), 2014-15 FLAS Fellow in Inuktitut and Isaac Stockdale (right), UW’s first Corbett Canada-US Fellow (01/15). The Pacific Northwest Canadian Studies Consortium (PNWCSC) held its annual meeting at the Canadian Consulate in downtown Seattle on Friday, February 6th, 2015. The program featured three affiliated students in Canadian Studies who presented their research

Above: David Rossiter, new director of Canadian American Studies at Western Washington University (02/15). December 31, 2014 marked the end of an impressive era of Canadian Studies leadership with the retirement of Dr. Donald K. Alper, Director of the Center for Canadian-American Studies at Western Washington University. Our two centers share a U.S. Department of

In February 2014, University of Washington’s 2014-15 Fulbright Canada Chair in Arctic Studies, Joel Health, travelled to Québec City to participate in the first International Symposium on Northern Development and the launching of the Institute Nordique due Québec. Joel’s presentation was entitled, “Community-Driven Research with Inuit and Cree.” See website: http://www.plannord.gouv.qc.ca/en/symposium-en/ Joel Heath served as project