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

Originally posted: March 2015 In January this year Ian Lee, Earth and Space Sciences, had the opportunity to travel to frigid Tromsø, Norway to participate in the Arctic Frontiers conference held at the University of Tromsø as the U.S. representative for the inaugural group of University of the Arctic (UArctic) Student Ambassadors, comprised of students

Originally posted March 2015 Two Arctic Studies Minor students, Nirupam Nigam, Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, and Drake Russell, Pre-Sciences, were invited by the Russian Geographical Society to attend the International Youth Forum with Center director, Vincent Gallucci. Early this January, I was selected to attend an event called the International Youth Forum, Arctic Expedition, at

Two new resources are now available through the University Libraries. EBSCO’s Bibliography of Native North Americans (BNNA) is an online database covering all aspects of North America’s aboriginal culture, history and life. With some links to full-text, it includes broad coverage for aboriginal peoples across the continent, including Aleuts, Eskimos and Inuit peoples. Because it is an

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

by Charlotte Coté and Dian Million, American Indian Studies Tribal community member’s food booths (11/14) In late September UW’s American Indian Studies Department held their second annual symposium entitled, The Living Breath of Wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ: Indigenous Ways of Knowing Cultural Food Practices and Ecological Knowledge. The symposium brought together internationally renowned speakers from the United States and

Originally posted: January 2015 Tina Storer, Education and Curriculum Specialist at Western Washington University’s Center for Canadian-American Studies, represented the Pacific Northwest National Resource Center (NRC) on Canada by joining with Northeast NRC on Canada representatives Betsy Arntzen (U Maine) and Amy Sotherden (SUNY Plattsburgh) as hosts of a display booth in “International Alley” of

Above: Mick Mallon, Canadian Inuktitut instructor lectures at Linguistics colloquium by Brent Woo, Linguistics Mallon, who might possibly be Canada’s preeminent non-Inuktitut instructor, is better described through his past work than by giving him any one title. Mallon was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland in 1933. He graduated from Cambridge in 1954 and then emigrated

Above: Daniel Heath Justice, Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Literature and Expressive Culture; Chair of the First Nations Studies Program, University of British Columbia by Rachael Nickerson, Comparative History of Ideas Justice explained the Predation Perplex by asking, “What does it mean to think about personhood yet kill and eat beings we claim to be