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Riddu Indigenous dialogue: When we can`t stop the melting ice?

Riddu Riđđu international indigenous festival 11-15th of July 2012

Riddu Riđđu invites to a seminar about the challenges of climate change and how this affects the world`s indigenous peoples.

Melting permafrost, snow and ice, mountain glaciers and the Greenland Ice Sheet disappearing. Increased shipping traffic, new available areas for petroleum exploration, changes in fish migration patterns, impact on the ecosystem and change in land use, more extreme weather, forest fires and desertification. Climate change affects indigenous peoples! What can we do to adapt and live with the changing climate?

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2012-01-25

The Northern Lights seminar: The Sami language law in Romssa suohkan/The municipality of Tromsø

This seminar is sponsored by the regional newspaper “Nordlys” (Northern Lights).

2011-07-21
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Breakfast seminar: Indigenous knowledge, a part of academic knowledge?

Friday 22nd of July, 10.30 am

What role do research communities play in producing knowledge that supports sustainable indigenous communities? The participants at this seminar are faculty staff at the University of Tromsø, and Native American Studies in Missoula, Montana. The focus will be on transferring indigenous knowledge into academia and the wider society seen from the perspective of the social sciences. The chair of the seminar is historian and professor Bjørg Evjen at the University of Tromsø.

2011-07-07
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Nisga`a house dialogue

When we can’t stop the melting ice Saturday 23rd July

Riddu Riđđu invites to the Nisga'a house dialogue on the challenges of climate change and and how these affect indigenous peoples. The dialogue will take place in our traditional Nisga `a Longhouse.

 

2011-07-04
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Indigenous right - The struggle for survival

Saturday 23rd of July 3.30 pm

The presentation gives an overview over the world’s largest freshwater ecosystem, it history
and the situation of its indigenous peoples. It focuses on the current threats to indigenous
livelihoods and culture posed by extractive industries and infrastructure development. The
indigenous struggles to counter this are finally discussed.
2011-06-23