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Polar Year Lecture: “Kiavallakkikput Agviq-Cultural Responses to Climate Change among the Iñupiaq People of Arctic Alaska.”

posted by jeffers at March 9th, 2009
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Chie Sakakibara – will present the lecture “Kiavallakkikput Agviq-Cultural Responses to Climate Change among the Iñupiaq People of Arctic Alaska.”
This is a live simulcast, questions will be taken from the SL audience.
When: Friday, March 20, at 12:30 SLT (3:30 p.m. ET)
Where: University of Delaware’s Island
http://slurl.com/secondlife/University%20of%20Delaware/136/97/24

The Iñupiaq people of Alaska live in the northernmost regions of the United States and the North American mainland, including the city of Barrow, the most northern U.S. city. In this harsh Arctic environment, the bowhead whale is central to Iñupiaq life and culture. In fact, the Iñupiaq identify themselves as the “People of the Whales.”

However, global warming is not only affecting bowhead whales and the subsistence whaling on which the Iñupiaq depend, but it also threatens the oral traditions, traditional music, and indigenous world views of the Iñupiaq people, according to Chie Sakakibara, a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University’s Earth Institute.

For more info see: http://www.udel.edu/udaily/2009/mar/inupiaq030409.html
UD’s Polar Research Web Site: http://www.udel.edu/research/polar/