Lecture 12

Lecture 12:
Finale
Alaskan Natives vs.
Greenland Natives
How Oil Has Made Alaskan
Natives’ Lives Different from
Greenlanders’
Hess, Hutchins and Jeannot
Economic Effects of Oil
• Native Claims
Settlement Act of
1971
• Annual royalty check
(statewide)
• Employment
• Community services
improved
Greenlanders do not benefit from money.
Prudhoe Bay
http://www.accentalaska.com/permenant/prud
hoe/
The United States, Greenland, and Denmark
Their relationship and their impact on the natives
of Greenland
By Callie Fallacy, Jessallee Calugas,
and Kareem Cervantes
HA&S 220C: Life Under The Pale Sun
US Military Bases in Greenland
Description of Bases and History
♦ Bluie West One base in Narsassuaq: One of Greenland’s
best equipped airports.
♦ Bluie West Eight base in Kangerlussuaq: Important cargo
stop for goods from America to Europe. Now under
Greenlandic rule.
♦ Thule Air Base: Completed in 1953, caused an entire inuit
community to be relocated. August 2004, base was
modernized to meet security challenges of 21st century.
the Chukchi natives
Brought to you by:
Louis, Jean, Jean
The Greenland Inuit
vs.
The Chukchi native
• In contrast to the Greenland Inuit, The
Chukchi have access to wood. Since
Greenland has no wood, this eliminates one
reason for migration.
A New
Ice in
Age:
A New Ice
Age:
Baffin Bay
Effects of Climate Change in Baffin Bay
Jensen, Shephard, Olson, O’Conner
Phytoplankton
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Library/Phytoplankton/
General Information
on the Greenland Caribou
Reindeerare
andlarge,
caribou
have
unique animals
hairs which
trap can
air providing
Caribou
wild,
elk-like
which
be foundthem
with
insulation.
TheseNorth
hairs also
help keep
them buoyant in
above
theinches
tree-line
in arctic
America
and Greenland.
Height:
36excellent
- 50
water.
very strong swimmers and can move across wide
(smallthe
female
to They
large are
male)
rushing rivers and even the frozen ice of the Arctic Ocean!
Weight: 180- 600Greenland
pounds, Caribou = Santa’s Reindeer?
across the various subspecies
Greenland
Caribou
There
are currently
are types of herds:
two
found
in West
and
The
qassit
up north,
South
and
the neria down
Greenland.
south.
!
The air temperature on 2 Jan 1993 at the surface of the Earth.
The cold (blue) air forms a dome in the Arctic, which is dense
(heavy) and tends to slide southwater beneath less dense air.
This leads to both the overturning circulation and the westerly
winds and jet stream.
NEWS OF THE DAY:
acceleration of Jakobshavn
Isbrae glacier in Greenland
(alone, it drains 6.5% of
Greenland, producing
.6mm per decade of global
sea-level rise, 4% of the
average 20thC rate of
2 cm per decade Joughlin
et al. Nature 2 Dec 2004
Regions of melt-back of the Greenland ice-cap; think of the
effects on Caribou as well as climate
Environmental Protection Agency: 50% chance
of a 45 cm rise by the year 2100
methanenatural gas
CH4
Visit…www.greenlandguide.gl
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The travel activity to and from Greenland is increasing - in line with
the Greenlandic society's quick change into a industry and
consumer society, that among other things live by its fishing.
There is a bit more than 56.000 inhabitants in Greenland, but AIR
GREENLAND transports approximately 180.000 passengers per
year. Most of the passengers are businesspeople and decisionmakers in the expanding business of community concerning tourism,
fishing and development of raw material, which are the most
important.
The comprehensive international trade of Greenland, results in a up
going amount of businesspeople, civil servants and politicians who
visit the largest island in the world - only a 4 hour plane journey from
Denmark.
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The population of Greenland is predominantly
Inuit, a people bearing an affinity and solidarity with
the Inuits of Canada, Alaska and Siberia. It is only
140 years since the last immigration from Canada
took place.
The Greenlandic people are few in number: 55,000
in an enormous country. Approx. 20 percent of the
population was born outside Greenland.
Greenland is part of the Kingdom of Denmark, but
since the introduction of Home Rule in 1979
Greenland has moved towards relative
independence based on parliamentary democracy.
Today fishing is the all-dominating trade and
accounts for 95 percent of total exports, but in the
hunter districts of the outer areas, the seal and
whale catch is of great importance. It actually forms
the stable existence for one fifth of the Greenlandic
population. For millennia the philosophy has been to
live at one with nature. The hunters live with nature
and follow the natural seasons.
In South Greenland ruins from the norse (viking)
settlers 1,000 years ago are well preserved,
including the ruins of the first Christian churches on
the North America continent.
The symbols of the ancient culture are still alive
even in the larger towns. Many people build and use
their own kayak as you’ll see in every harbour. The
old drum dance is performed by a growing number
of artists. The musical and theatrical life is largely
based on myths and sagas conveyed in a modern
form.
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ice golf (with specially colored balls)
South Greenland
A restaurant in
Nuuk (not as tasteless
as the name suggests)
the major export
of Greenland
Razorbill - John Rasmussen
John Rasmussen
Nuuk…formerly
Gothaab (good
harbor), the
capitol of Greenland
Nunavut is the new
territory of Canada,
administered by
the native population.
It encompasses much
of the Canadian
Arctic, with capitol
Iqaluit, formerly
Frobisher Bay, on
Baffin Island. There
are charter flights there
in summer.
Malaspina glacier, Alaska (60N, 140W; NASA Landsat
image:http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov
http://landsat.gsfc.nasa/gov/earthasart)
glacier area: 4000 sq. km
arch vessel
mpson, of the
ersity of Washington
ool of Oceanography