Tim Pasch, FLAS Fellow in Inuktitut (2008), University of North Dakota, joining in a fishing derby in Rankin Inlet, Nunavut.

Michelle Daigle is Omushkegowuk Cree and a member of Constance Lake First Nation. She has an MA in Indigenous Governance from the University of Victoria and is currently a PhD candidate in the Geography department at the University of Washington. Her doctoral research focuses on food sovereignty for Anishinaabe people in what is now known

Inuktitut, the indigenous language of the Inuit peoples of Northern Canada, shares no roots with any other language in existence. It is spoken by only 35,000 people – with nearly all of them living in small communities in Arctic Canada. With its complex glottal sounds and unique set of written symbols, Inuktitut is rare to

Associate Professor, University of North Dakota, chaired a very successful conference entitled, “Science, People, & Sustainability in the Canadian Arctic: From the 1913 Canadian Arctic Expedition to the 2013 Arctic Council Chairmanship” on December 12, 2013.

In June, Timothy Pasch, UW FLAS Fellow in Inuktitut (2005-08) and now Assistant Professor of Communication at the University of North Dakota, presented at the Arviat Research Support Center, Nunavut Arctic College, in Arviat, Nunavut. From an article published by University of North Dakota Professor Tim Pasch spent his summer in the Canadian arctic researching

The Canadian Studies Center is proud to announce that Brit Sojka, School of Marine and Environmental Affairs, will be studying French this summer as part of her Foreign Language and Area Studies fellowships. As a Master’s candidate with U.W.’s School of Marine and Environmental Affairs, my current studies are an effort to develop the scientific

Timothy Pasch, first FLAS Fellow in Inuktitut in the nation (2005-08), is now an Assistant Professor, Communication, University of North Dakota, and was just appointed to the board of the Association for Canadian Studies in the United States. The Canadian Studies Center, Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, has profoundly influenced my scholarly and professional

Cody Case, FLAS student 2007-2008, is the new Global Awareness Program coordinator for the Office of International Programsat the University of Kansas. He received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in ethnomusicology, the anthropology of music, from the University of Washington and conducted various research projects in Tunisia, France, Canada and Ghana. Case is a strong advocate

As a Puget Sound area native who grew up only a few hours from the border—and someone whose great-grandparents immigrated originally to Vancouver, B.C. from Europe—Canada has long intrigued me. I even took a vacation a few years ago to do a brief home stay in a francophone household in Montréal. When I heard about