The CAP Portal is a searchable collection of reports and documents written by Tribes, Arctic communities, and Indigenous organizations. The NNA-CO is providing this collection to facilitate awareness of Arctic Peoples’ priorities and values, which may serve to inform Arctic research planning and meaningful engagement.
The ownership of the documents in this collection remains with the Tribes, Arctic communities, and Indigenous organizations who created and authored them. Use of these resources should not replace community engagement but rather supplement existing strategies for engagement.
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Four-Language Glossary: Inupiaq, St. Lawrence Island Yupik, Yup’ik, & English Terms
As part of their broader efforts on Knowledge Sovereignty and Indigenization, partners and project team leads Kawerak Inc. and Sandhill. Culture.Craft organized and facilitated a gathering of Bering Strait region Indigenous language experts on December 17 and 18, 2019 in Nome, Alaska. The gathering was held at the Katirvik Cultural Center, and featured two days of intensive discussion, documentation, and recording of Indigenous terms related to research, science, and policy issues.
The Sami Arctic Strategy
The Saami Council has worked on Arctic issues since its early days. Seeing an increased national and international focus on the Arctic, the Saami Council has identified a need for an Arctic strategy to guide its work in this important area. This Arctic strategy aims to establish the Saami Council as an active partner for the civil Sámi society, governments, NGOs, IGOs, and others that, through international cooperation, will build a strong and sustainable Sápmi in the Arctic
National Inuit Climate Change Strategy
Inuit Nunangat is recognized as a global climate change hotspot, garnering national and global concern. We continue to emphasize that no one is more aware or concerned about the changes taking place in our homelands and their consequences than Inuit, as evidenced by our strident and effective advocacy for global action on climate change over the last three decades. We have an intimate understanding of how climate change is impacting the physical environment, and the wildlife and ecosystems that sustain us
Environmental Impact Assessment Workshop Report
The goals of the Workshop were threefold: (1) to share information gathered through the Arctic Council project with the communities; (2) gain insights that can be shared with the Arctic Council project on best practices emanating from the Gwich’in Settlement Area; and (3) provide an opportunity to build capacity and facilitate discussions amongst those involved in Environmental Impact Assessments.
Impact Assessment in the Arctic: Emerging Practices of Indigenous-led Review
This report surveys options for Indigenous groups based on three models and case studies from the Canadian experience. This work is intended to assist Indigenous groups throughout the Arctic and beyond in deciding whether and how to establish their own Indigenous-led impact assessment processes over resource development in their homelands.
Bristol Bay Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy: 2017-2021
"Through the Bristol Bay CEDS and other initiatives, the region is implementing the Bristol Bay Regional Vision. The Bristol Bay Partnership with Bristol Bay Native Association as the lead organization sponsored the Vision to hear from the people about their hopes and dreams for the future. The CEDS is a planning tool used to map out where Bristol Bay wants to go, reduce redundancies, attract investment, and encourage partnerships."
Inuit Education Summit
In recognition of the important role that education plays in economic, cultural, social, and political development of a people, and the critical education gaps faced by Inuit today, the delegates of the 2014 Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC) General Assembly mandated the ICC Executive Council to hold an Inuit Education Summit prior to the next quadrennial ICC General Assembly in July 2018.
Utqiagvik Declaration 2018: Inuit - The Arctic We Want
As declared by the Inuit of Alaska, Canada, Greenland, and Chukotka on the occasion of the 13th General Assembly of the Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC) from 16-19 July 2018 in Utqiaagvik, Alaska, and in the context of the Assembly theme: Inuit - The Arctic We Want
Traante Declaration
The 21. Saami conference, represented by the Saami Council member organizations, gathered in Tråante (Trondheim) 9.-11. February 2017 on the occasion of the centennial jubilee of the first national Saami Conference, thank Tråante for our stay and states that: The Saami people have the rights described below; All requirements and positions presented below are in line with current or in any case rapidly developing rules of international law; Commits to work for these rights to be realized, and requires that States inside Sáami do the same.
Wildlife Management Summit Report
The Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC) hosted the Wildlife Management Summit that took place on November 6 to 8, 2017 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada to deliver on the commitment made in Article 40 of the Kitigaaryuit Declaration, as adopted at the 2014 ICC General Assembly in Inuvik, which, “directs ICC to plan and host an Inuit summit on wildlife management.” The ICC Wildlife Management Summit’s goal was to examine the influence that policies (international, regional, national instruments), environmental change, public perceptions, and changing social economic conditions in the Arctic are having