LETTER TO THE EDITOR A Principled Approach to Research and Development in Inuit Nunangat Starts with the People Dear Editor: The Inuit of Canada, through our respective national and

• Main Author: Inuit Tapiriit
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Arctic; Canada; inuit
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the North, which appeared in the June 2013 issue of Arc-tic (Morris et al., 2013). It is extremely discouraging to find that the Manifesto was developed and published without the involvement of the very people whose interests the Mani-festo’s principles purport to serve. We are not surprised to see that other Northerners also share similar concerns (Ogden and Thomas, 2013). We recognize that many of the researchers involved with the drafting of this Manifesto have built their careers on decades of dedicated research in the Arctic, and that the Manifesto was written out of pas-sionate concern about intensifying and competing pres-sures on the Arctic and its peoples. However, it is precisely because of the authors ’ substantial knowledge of the Arctic that we are particularly troubled by what we would describe as the colonial approach of the Manifesto.