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IPY School Teachers in Kautokeino / Guovdageaidnu |
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Written by Philip Burgess
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Wednesday, 02 April 2008 01:00 |
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The Norwegian IPY initiative that has seen 20 school teachers from all across Norway come to Kautokeino / Guovdageaidnu is under way this week and has been a great success. There were Norwegian, Finnish and Sami teachers in the group.
The programme has been an intense introduction to Sami culture, livelihoods, research and the various institutions and organisations that lie at the heart of contemporary Sami society. Presentations have been made by the Sami University College, the International Centre for Reindeer Husbandry, GALDU - the Resource Centre for the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, the Sami Reindeer Herders Association, along with a visit to the Sami Parliament. Sami food culture was introduced and the group will be taken to the tundra accompanied by the well known Sami reindeer herder, 'Farmen Mikkel', whose extended Eira family is featured in the popular NRK Boazolihkku documentary. They will be accompanied on the tundra by Marit Broch Johansen, coordinator of the Veiveisere / Ofelas programme of the Sami University College.
For several, this was their first trip to Finnmark - such as Ingeborg Johansen, who teaches in Levanger, in the Trondheim region, "This trip has been very exciting - I had not been so far North before and I have received a lot of information and been so impressed by the warmth of our welcome" Others were more local, including Sami teachers from Manndalen, such as Tor Nilsen who teaches bilingual children, some of whom are from Kautokeino and Berit Siri, who teaches Sami language and culture in Kirkenes.
Presentations were made by several researchers in the EALAT project including Project Leader Svein Mathiesen, Norwegian Meteorological Institute researcher Inger Hanssen Bauer (also in EALAT), and other EALAT researchers including Ellen Inga Turi and Mathis Bongo. Elna Sara presented the work of the Assn. of World Reindeer Herders and the International Centre for Reindeer Husbandry and Philip Burgess presented the Reindeer Portal.
The visit ends Friday, April 4, with a final presentation by Ole Henrik Magga.
The trip has been a Norwegian IPY initiative who provided funding and it was coordinated by Karl Torstein Hetland of the Naturfagsenteret and Ellen Brita Eira, EALAT project coordinator.
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Программа «EALAT/AVEEN» на Чукотке: Международный семинар «Мониторинг и рациональное использование оленьих пастбищ» |
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Written by Philip Burgess
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Friday, 28 March 2008 01:00 |
В Анадыре – столице Чукотского автономного округа – с 27 февраля по 1 марта 2008 г. состоялся международный научно-практический семинар «Мониторинг и рациональное использование оленьих пастбищ» по программе «EALAT/AVEEN». Организаторами семинара выступили Чукотский филиал Северо-Восточного комплексного научно-исследовательского института Дальневосточного отделения РАН (ЧФ СВКНИИ), Международный центр оленеводства (International Centre for Reindeer Husbandry – ICR), Ассоциация «Оленеводы мира» (Association of World Reindeer Herders – WRH), Союз оленеводов Чукотки (Union of Chukotka Reindeer Herders).
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Dmitry Khorolia, WRH President on NRK |
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Written by Philip Burgess
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Thursday, 27 March 2008 01:00 |
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Dmitry Khorolia the President of the Association of World Reindeer Herders was on NRK Sami Oddasat yesterday.
A major conference was being held in Murmansk, the capital of the Kola Peninsula and the main topic of discussion was the poor state of reindeer husbandry in the region.
The Kola Peninsula was one of the primary regions of reindeer husbandry in Russia, but has been in severe decline since the 1990's, despite its proximity to a potential major market (Murmansk has over 200,000 inhabitants making it the largest city North of the Arctic Circle).
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The 'Manitoba Reunion', Kautokeino |
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Written by Philip Burgess
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Wednesday, 26 March 2008 01:00 |
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On February 28th, 1898, 113 reindeer herders - men, women and children from Kautokeino and Karasjok in Norway, 539 draft reindeer, 418 sleds, a number of dogs and lichen arrived in New York after a long and arduous ocean crossing from Bossekop, near Alta on the Finnmark coast. The ship they sailed in was called the 'Manitoba', hence the name “The Manitoba Expedition.” The herders and reindeer crossed the U.S. by train and after a series of mishaps, made their way to Alaska, heralding the introduction of Sami reindeer husbandry to North America - an extraordinary story that is the subject of an exhibition which it is hoped will be in Kautokeino/ Guovdageaidnu next year for the 4th World Reindeer Herders Congress.
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Sami Family Reunions in Kautokeino |
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Written by Philip Burgess
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Tuesday, 18 March 2008 01:00 |
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110 years ago after the Alaska Sami families left Finnmark, their descendents have returned to Kautokeino to connect with their relatives and take part in the Sami Easter festivities. The Sami migration at the end of the 19th Century was the key to the establishment of reindeer husbandry on the Seward Peninsula and subsequently on the MacKenzie Valley Delta in Canada.
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