Table of Contents

From Kolkata to Kaktovik En Route to Arctic Voices Something Like an Introduction Subhankar Banesjee 1

Here's What You Can Do to Keep Wild Alive Emilie Karrick Surrusco Cindy Shogan 23

Part 1 snapshot of now 37

From Early Warming: Crisis and Response in the Climate-Changed North Nancy Lord 39

They Have No Ears Riki Ott 53

BPing the Arctic? Subhankar Banerjee 66

Teshekpuk in the Arctic's Biggest Wetland Steve Zack Joe Liebezeit 91

Protecting the Apples but Chopping the Trees Andri Snær Magnason 107

Part 2 pain and joy of being connected 123

From Silent Snow: The Slow Poisoning of the Arctic Marla Cone 125

The Fall of the Yukon Kings Dan O'Neill 142

Following Cranes to the Arctic George Archibald 165

Broken Promises: The Reality of Big Oil in America's Arctic Pamela A. Miller 179

From Kivalina: A Climate Change Story Christine Shearer 207

Part 3 we are the caribou people 221

From People of the Deer Farley Mowat 223

Caribou Currency Seth Kantner 238

We'll Fight to Protect the Caribou Calving Ground and Gwich'in Way of Life Jonathon Solomon Sarah James Reverend Trimble Gilbert 254

Caribou Time Nick Jans 270

Part 4 arclic ocean is our garden 285

From Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape Barry Lopez 287

We Will Fight to Protect the Arctic Ocean and Our Way of Life Robert Thompson Rosemary Ahtuangaruak Caroline Cannon Earl Kingik 301

Dancing for the Whales: Kivgiq and Cultural Resilience Among the People of the Whales Chie Sakakibara 335

Part 5 reporting from the field 347

From Coming into the Country John McPhee 349

In the Great Country Peter Matthiessen 363

Coast to Coast: Perilous Journeys with Arctic Shorebirds Stephen Brown 375

In Calloused Human Hands: Tuullik, Teshekpuk, and Our Western Arctic Jeff Fair 387

Part 6 decade, after decade, after decade... 403

From Two in the Far North Margaret E. Murie 405

From Being Caribou Karsten Heuer 417

From Midnight Wilderness Debbie S. Miller 430

Saving the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge George B. Schaller 439

Part 7 we gather; we speak out; we organize 451

A Brief History of Native Solidarity Maria Shaa Tláa Williams 453

We'll Fight to Protect the Gwich'in Homeland and Our Way of Life Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge Chief Dacho Alexander Marilyn Savage Matthew Gilbert 468

Past and Present, Culture in Progress Velma Wallis 486

From The Reindeer People: Living with Animals and Sprits in Siberia Piers Vitebsky 499

Acknowledgments 517

Contributors 519

Credits and Permissions 530

Index 532