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: Biographies; Costs; Crime; Curricula; Economic conditions; Education; Employment; Food; Formation; Government; Health; Health care; Ice cover; Inuit; Inuit languages; Literature; Lutheran Church; Marine navigation; Melting; Mental health and well-being; Movement; Sea ice; Spatial distribution; Teachers; Trapping; Tuberculosis; Welfare; Canadian Arctic; Canadian Arctic waters; Greenland; Arctic; Bugge; eskimo*; inuit; Alaska
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/66960

The news items include: 1) a summary of round table conference concerning Eskimo affairs that was held in Ottawa on May 19-20, 1952 (reprinted from Arctic Circular, v. 5, no. 4, 1952, p. 41-43); 2) information on the Canadian ice distribution survey by J. Keith Fraser (reprinted from Arctic Circular, v. 5, no. 5, 1952, p. 56); 3) a summary of two articles written by Provst Aage Bugge (an obituary of Provst C.W. Schultz-Lorentzen and a book review of a novel, "Kateketen Johannes", by Karl Heilmann) that were published in pamphlet no. 79 of Meddelelser om Den grønlandske Kirkesag; and 4) a notice that the Shorey Book Store of Seattle has issued a catalogue of their books on Alaska and the Arctic.