Joomla! site syndication http://www.snowchange.org/web 2010-09-06T19:14:19+01:00 http://www.snowchange.org/web http://www.snowchange.org/web/images/M_images/joomla_rss.png text/html 2010-08-25T15:58:02+01:00 http://www.snowchange.org/web http://www.snowchange.org/web/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=46&Itemid=2 26th to 28th August, 2010 celebrations are held across the country and events organised in Selkie Villageas the SNOWCHANGE COOPERATIVE (and previous incarnations) is 10 years old today. The Indigenous Climate Change Project that begun in Tampere, Finland, Vancouver, Canada and Murmansk,Russia in 2000 is now on its 10th Anniversary. This weekend marks as well the 5th Anniversary since Snowchange became an independent cooperative,a non-profit organisation based in Finland but with over 2,000 associates and members in the membercommunities across the world as well as in Academia. We look forwards to the next 10 years trying to better the work we do and learn more about thechanging north. text/html 2010-08-25T15:54:20+01:00 http://www.snowchange.org/web http://www.snowchange.org/web/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=45&Itemid=2 The great Indigenous leader from the Even Nation in Republic of Sakha-Yakutia, Siberia, Russia has passed onin early July 2010. The Indigenous Peoples Institute where he worked has prepared the following statement in his memory: text/html 2010-08-25T15:51:21+01:00 http://www.snowchange.org/web http://www.snowchange.org/web/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=44&Itemid=2 Snowchange is 10 years old. Summer recess is over and Snowchange Co-op activities are updated with more rigour again. in June Georges and Miguel Siuoi from the Huron Nation, Canada visited and successful cooperationtalks were held in Äimälä and Selkie. As well the ICE Conference and the visit to Unalakleet have fostered new cooperation steps for future.Eastern Saami Atlas is being prepared for printers and it is expected to come out in November. Another new project has been launched with the United Nations Alliance of Finland. A book will bereleased in October in English about the impacts of the Lokka and Porttipahta Reservoirs to the Vuotso Saami way of life in Finland. Co-author of this book is Pekka Aikio, the First President of theFinnish Saami Parliament, from Vuotso himself. Partnership with the Indigenous Peoples Climate Change Assessment is proceeding. Sevettijärvi,home community of the Skolt Saami is the pilot Arctic community and summer has been spent therecollecting traditional knowledge, by organising a traditional fishing camp on the Näätämö River andpreparing for the launching of the Eastern Saami Atlas. The community has started to develop traditional knowledge database. Solar panel project in Sakha-Yakutia proceeds to its final implementation. The solar batteries are being delivered to tundra from India (Barefoot College) and over the Autumn we hope to seefirst reactions. The Selkie village in North Karelia, Finland has started to digitalize oral histories of the area. The school project with Norya, Udmurtia and Unalakleet, Alaska, USA continues. In early October Snowchange will participate in community-meetings and cooperation talks withour British Columbian First Nations, in Alert Bay, in Victoria and in Vancouver. This newsletter closes with sad news - two of the key community members from Sakha-Yakutia, Russia have passed on - the Honorable Scientist of the Russian Federation from the Even Nation,mr. Vasilii Robbek and reindeer herder, hunter Vladimir Kolesov from Iengra.All the best wishes to the friends and families of the departed.If questions please take contact.Tero Mustonen text/html 2010-03-16T14:20:30+01:00 http://www.snowchange.org/web http://www.snowchange.org/web/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=42&Itemid=2 +++ NEW PUBLICATION AVAILABLE ABOUT INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OF SIBERIA +++ At the Gates of the Sun documents the life of Nizni-Kolyma and Neriungri uluses - two regions of Republic of Sakha-Yakutia, Siberia, Russian Federation as seen by the visiting Finnish members of the Snowchange Cooperative. The photos in this book have been taken between 2004 and 2009 as a part of the joint project ”Traditional Knowledge of the Indigenous Peoples of the North of Sakha-Yakutia in the Context of Arctic Climate Change”. Partners in the project included the Evenki of Iengra, Institute of the Indigenous Peoples of North, Far East and Siberia, Northern Forum Academy as well as the obshchinas Nutendli and Turvaurgin in the Lower Kolyma. These pages portray a unique way of life in the Arctic – the two regions still maintain the nomadic reindeer herding. Rapidly proceeding arctic climate change, resource development and cultural change are issues which affect these peoples. Yet they maintain their core systems of knowledge and culture. They herd their reindeer in a free ranging seasonal cycles. This book documents traditional Eurasian reindeer herding using visual means to offer a view to a life on the land. This book is both in English and Russian. 140 pp. Hardcover and soft cover versions are available.Please contact us for more information on ordering. text/html 2009-02-01T08:01:27+01:00 http://www.snowchange.org/web http://www.snowchange.org/web/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=2 Full, approved text of the The Mahinekura Reinfelds Declaration from Snowchange 2008