Circumpolar Indigeneity in Canada, Russia, and the United States (Alaska): Do Differences Result in Representational Challenges for the Arctic Council?
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This article investigates differences in circumpolar indigeneities in three major Arctic nations: Russia, Canada, and the United States (Alaska). Russia has different ways of recognizing indigeneity in law, and that definition of indigeneity excludes larger Indigenous groups of the Far North (Sakha, Komi), rather than seeing them as ethnic (titular) minorities. This study reveals that: 1) not all Indigenous peoples are represented in the Arctic Council; 2) there are historical explanations for this underrepresentation; 3) the Arctic Council should include more Indigenous groups as Permanent Participants. The equal representation of Indigenous organizations as Permanent Participants in the Arctic Council is important because all Indigenous groups in the Arctic should be heard.
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Whaling is permitted through the rights of the Federal Law On guarantees of the rights of the Indigenous Peoples of the Russian Federation, which extends a Soviet period 1926 law.
“Whaling is permitted through the rights of the Federal Law “On guarantees of the rights of the Indigenous Peoples of the Russian Federation'', which extends a Soviet period 1926 law that emphasized korenizatsiia (Indigenization processes for local languages, local leaders and ethnic schools) setting a precedent for support and regulation of small Indigenous communities (Sidorova, 2019).”
From Institutional navigation of oceans governance: Lessons from Russia and the United States Indigenous multi-level whaling governance in the Arctic (2022) · cites this paper as Sidorova, 2019
The Russia section describes korenizatsiia as a 1920s Soviet policy involving Indigenous languages, local leaders, and ethnic schools. Table 1 lists a 1926 statute granting protection and special status to small-numbered Indigenous peoples. Neither passage says that the named Russian federal law extends the 1926 statute or that it permits whaling. (LLM, conf=0.86)
Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredLocal and regional actors and organizations leveraged arguments and strategies honed within larger Indigenous movements, such as those led by the ICC, and fought to ensure that the centrality of whaling to identity and sovereignty was not lost in numeric discussions of quotas, food security and whale numbers.
“Looking back over this history of cross-level institutional navigation, local and regional actors and organizations leveraged arguments and strategies honed within larger Indigenous movements, such as those led by the ICC (Gerhardt, 2017;Sidorova, 2019;Young, 1996), and fought to ensure that the centrality of whaling to identity and sovereignty was not lost in numeric discussions of quotas, food”
From Institutional navigation of oceans governance: Lessons from Russia and the United States Indigenous multi-level whaling governance in the Arctic (2022) · cites this paper as Sidorova, 2019
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- Authors
- Sidorova, E.
- Affiliations
- University of Calgary (CA)
- Corresponding author
- Sidorova, Evgeniia
- ORCID
- Sidorova, Evgeniia
- Venue
- ARCTIC
- Published
- 2019-03-31
- Volume
- 72
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 71-81
- ISSN
- 0004-0843 (ISSN-L)
- 1923-1245
- OpenAlex
- W2932091588
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- 2026: 1 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 5 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 1
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- 26.24
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- en
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- ARCTIC (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Law › Indigenous Peoples' Rights and Law
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Indigenous Studies and Ecology
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Arctic and Russian Policy Studies
- Keywords
- Arctic Council, representation of indigenous peoples, Arctic peoples, Sakha, Komi, ethnic minorities, Arctic governance, Canada, Russia, Alaska
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