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DECEMBER 1993
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Avannaarsuani
pinngortitaq inuillu
Meeqqat kalattoortut. (Asseq: AG-ip toqqorsivianiit).
Children performing a polka dance (Photo: AG photo archives)
Nature and Peoples in the North
- Innuttaasut
pisinnaatitaaffii
lllersorlugit
1993-ip ingerlanerani Kø-
benhavnimi ataatsimiititali-
aq nutaaq pilersinneqarpoq
Issittumi Nunap Inuiinik
taper ser su isoq. Ataatsimii-
titaliap pingaarnertut siu-
nertaraa aningaasanik ka-
tersuiniarneq katersorne-
qartullu nunat tamalaat
akornanni Issittumi Nunap
Inuiinut toqqaannartumik
tunngassuteqartunik ataat-
simiifTiusartuni nunap inu-
iisa peqataasalernissaannut
atorneqartarnissaat. Tassa-
lu avatangiisinut aammalu
innuttaasut pisinnaatitaaf-
fiinut tunngasut eqqarsaati-
gineqarput. Ataatsimiititali-
aq »Avannaarsuani Pin-
ngortitaq Inuillu« ullumik-
kut suleqatigiiffimmik ISI-
mik suleqatiginnippoq. ISI
tassaavoq Inuit Eqqillillu
suleqatigiiffiat puisinniar-
nermut, arfanniarnermut,
pinialunnermullu uumasu-
nik illersuiniaqatigiit allallu
pinngortitamik illersuinia-
qatigiiffissuit ilaatigut peqa-
taaffigisaanik akerlilersui-
nerat illuatungilerniarlugu
suleqatigiifllulluni. Ataatsi-
miititaliamilu neriuutigine-
qarpoq siunissami issittumi
suleqatigiifTinnikallanik su-
leqatiginnilerumaarnissaq
tapersersuisalerumaarnis-
sarlu. Inuit Alaskameersut,
Canadameersut, Kalaallit
Nunaanneersut Chukotka-
meersullu; Saamit Norge-
meersut, Sverigemeersut,
Finlandimeersut Ruslandi-
meersullu eqqillit Canadap
Alaskallu avannaaneersut -
aammalu nunap inuii nag-
gueqatigiikkuutaat Siberia-
meersut assigiinngitsut 26-
it peqatigiiffiata soqutigi-
saat arlalippassuartigut as-
sigiissuseqarput. Siullermik
tamarmik Issittumi nuna-
qaqqaartuupput. Inooriaa-
sitillu ineriartortissimavaat
issittup avatangiisaanut
inuuffigiuminaatsumut ki-
siannilu aamma mianernar-
tumut naleqquttunngorlu-
git. Kulturertik inooriaaser-
tillu imarmik, tundramik
aammalu orpeqarfiit kille-
qarfianik tunngaveqartoq
ineriartortissimallugit. Is-
sittumissaaq Nunap Inuiisa
assigiissutaat alla tassaavoq
ukiorpaalunngortuni ava-
taaniit tatisimanninnermik
tunngaveqartumik inoori-
aasiannik kulturiannillu
ajornartorsiortitsilersima-
neq. Tatisimanninnerit mi-
ngutsitsinerinnaanngitsu-
mik kisiannilu aamma uu-
masunik nungutitaaqqa-
jaanngitsunik atuinerannut
akerlilersuinermik tunnga-
veqartut. Akerlilersuinerit
amerlanertigut sukkasuu-
mik aningaasannanniapal-
lunnissamik siunertaqartut
illoqarfissuarni innuttaasut
pinngortitamut attaveerun-
nermik nalliginninnermillu
misigissuseqalersimasut
atorluarlugit nunap inuiisa
kulturiat aningaasarsior-
nikkullu tunngavigisaat nu-
ngusarlugit. Ataatsimiitita-
liap »Avannaarsuani Pin-
ngortitaq Inuillu« naqita-
gaaraliaani erseqqissarne-
qarsimavoq Issittumi Nu-
nap Inuiisa innuttaasutut
pisinnaatitaaflu illersorne-
qartut tassalu immikkuulla-
rissumik kultureqarnertik,
ileqqoqarnertik aammalu
naleqartitaqarnertik tun-
ngavigalugit inooriaaseqar-
nermik pisinnaatitaafflisa
nunanit tamalaanit akueri-
neqarnissaat aammalu inuit
pinngortitamik innarlitsaa-
liuillutik atuisuunerisa
ingerlaannarnissaata ataq-
qineqarnissaa illersorlugu.
Innuttaasut pisinnaatitaaf-
fii tunngaviusut maanna-
mut nunanit tamalaanit
akuerisaasut ataqqineqar-
tullu nunap inuiinuttaaq
atuutinneqarnissaat iller-
sorlugit pingaartumik pisin-
naatitaaffiit 1992-mi Riomi
atsiorneqartumi oqaluuseri-
sami nr. 21-mi Avatangiisit
Ineriartornerlu pillugit Na-
lunaarummi allassimasut,
suli ullormanna tikillugu
suliniaqatigiiffissuarnit pis-
saaneqartunit aammalu su-
leqatigiinnit sunniiniartu-
artunit uumasunik illersui-
niarnerinnaq kisiat salliul-
lugu innuttaasullu pisin-
naatitaaffii tunullugit suli-
niartunit ulorianartorsior-
tinneqartuartut. Suleqati-
giiffik pilersinneqartoq qal-
lunaanik nuimasunik taa-
neqarsinnaasunik inutta-
qarpoq ilaatigut politikeriu-
sunik, eqqumiitsorliortunik
aammalu atuakkiortuusu-
nik. Suleqatigiiffiup nunap
inuiisa nammineq aalaja-
ngiisinnaassuseqarneran-
nik sakkortuumik taperser-
suisuuvoq Issittumilu Nu-
nap Inuiisa innuttaasunit
tapersersorneqalernissaan-
nik siunertaqarluni sulini-
artuuvoq taamaaliornikkul-
lu aningaasanik katersinik-
kut nunap inuiisa sinniisui-
sa ataatsimiinnernut ataat-
simeersuarnernullu peqa-
taasalernermikkut nunat
tamalaat akornanni nammi-
nerminnut tunngassuteqar-
tutigut aalqjangiiffiusartuni
sunniuteqaqataallutik aala-
jangersaaqataasalernissaat
aqqutissiuunniarneqarluni.
Tassalu »Inuit Eqqillillu«
ikiornerisigut imminnut il-
lersulernissaat anguniarne-
qarpoq. Annertunerusumik
paasisaqarusukkuit uunga
saafilginnissinnaavutit:
Nature and Peoples in the
North
c/o Arctic Information
Møntergade 16, DK-1116 Kø-
benhavn K
Tlf. 9 33 13 02 92.
Fax: 9 33 32 09 02.
- A question of »Green
Human Rights«
During 1993, a new commit-
tee in support of indigenous
peoples in the Arctic was
established in Copenhagen,
Denmark.
The primary goal of the
committee is to raise funds
to help sponsor the partici-
pation of arctic indigenous
peoples in international fora
dealing with issues of ut-
most importance to their
communities. Namely, issu-
es concerning environmen-
tal and human rights.
The committee »Nature
and Peoples in the North«
currently cooperates with
the organization »Indige-
nous Survival Internatio-
nal« (ISI), which represents
the views of Inuit and Indi-
an hunters, who are suffe-
ring from the negative im-
pact of anti- sealing, anti-
whaling and anti-trapping
campaigns, successfully or-
chestrated by a variety of
anti-harvest groups inclu-
ding some major environ-
mental organizations. It is
the committee’s hope, in the
future, to extent its coopera-
tion and support to include
other organizations in the
circumpolar north.
Inuit in Alaska, Canada,
Greenland and Chukotka -
the Sami in Norway, Swe-
den, Finland and Russia -
the Indians in northern Ca-
nada and Alaska - and the
more than 26 indigenous pe-
oples of Siberia have many
things in common.
First and foremost, they
are the original inhabitants
of the Arctic. They have de-
veloped lifestyles that are
well adapted to the harsh
but also delicate environ-
ment. An environment in
which the sea, the tundra
and the tree line, respective-
ly, form the very basis of
their livelihood and culture.
Common to the Arctic Pe-
oples is also that their cultu-
re and livelihood for some
time now have been suffe-
ring from various pressures
from the industrial world.
Pressures which, aside from
mere pollution, include cam-
paigns targeted at the har-
vesting of non-endangered,
but cute looking animals.
Typically, campaigns that
are designed to promote and
to take advantage - financi-
ally - of urban residents’ bad
conscience toward mother
nature, as well as to cynical-
ly undermine the economy
and culture of indigenous
peoples.
The Committee for Natu-
re and Peoples in the North
points out in their folder,
that the Arctic Peoples are
in faet pursuing a »Green
Human Right« - the right to
maintain a sound ecological
balance between man and
nature, and very important-
ly, to gain international re-
cognition of their right to
co-exist as societies with
their own cultures, tradi-
tions and values. Basic hu-
man rights which have alre-
ady been formally recogni-
zed and established interna-
tionally - most recently in
the Rio Declaration on Envi-
ronment and Development
and Agenda 21 of 1992 -, ho-
wever, which continues to
be threatened by powerful
organizations and lobby
groups placing more empha-
sis on animal protection
than on human rights.
With the goal being »to
help the Inuit and Indians
help themselves«, the Com-
mittee formed by prominent
Danish politicians, artists
and authors among others,
in strong support of indige-
nous peoples right to self-de-
termination, works toward
gaining public support to
help provide the Arctic Peo-
ples with the financial me-
ans to access and to partici-
pate in meetings and confe-
rences in which the interna-
tional society makes deci-
sions about the arctic envi-
ronment and its natural re-
sources.
For further information,
piease contact:
Nature and Peoples in the
North
Co. Arctic Information
Møntergade 16, DK-1116 Co-
penhagen K
Tel: + 45 33 13 02 92. Fax:
+ 45 33 32 09 02
Piniarnermik inuussutissarsiornermi piginnaassutsit kinguariinnut tulliuttunut kingor-
nussassanngortinneri. (Asseq: AG-ip toqqorsivianit).
Passing on the skilis ofseal hunting on to the next generation (Photo: AG photo archives)