Northern News

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Author: North America, Arctic Institute of
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1952
• Subjects: Acculturation; Aleut language; Aleuts; Animal food; Anthropology; Archaeology; Artifacts; Biological sampling; Birds; Burial practices; Continental shelves; Elections; Ethnobotany; Ethnology; Expeditions; Fishes; Geographical names; Government; Hydrography; Libraries; Lichens; Mammals; Oceanography; Radiocarbon dating; Reindeer husbandry; Research; Science; Canadian Beaufort Sea; Amundsen Gulf; N.W.T; Greenland; Aleutian Islands; Alaska; Barrow; Point; region; Labrador; Arctic; Christensen; Endeavour; Stefansson; aleut; Beaufort Sea; Grønland; Point Barrow; reindeer husbandry
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/66949

The articles include: 1) information on the hydrographic work carried out by the Cancolim expedition in the Canadian Beaufort Sea and Amundsen Gulf; 2) an account of the first Greenland Provincial Council election by N.O. Christensen and Trevor Lloyd, reprinted from Arctic Circular, v. 4, 1951, p. 83-85; 3) T.P. Bank's description of the last four years of anthropological and botanical expeditions from the University of Michigan to the Aleutian Islands; 4) a list of the 18 projects studied in 1951 from the Arctic Research Laboratory, Point Barrow; 5) the founding of the Stefansson Library at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire; 5) the potential use of lichen woodlands in Labrador for domestic reindeer grazing by A.E. Porsild; 6) the announcement of an essay competition run by the quarterly scientific review Endeavour; and 7) a notice that a complete set of Meddelelser om Grønland is for sale by an Arctic Institute Associate.