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Announcing the Publication of Breaking the Ice: From Land Claims to Tribal Sovereignty in the Arctic
Apr 7, 2008 – A history of the First Peoples of the Arctic
On March 30, 2008, Lexington Books published Breaking
the Ice: From Land Claims to Tribal Sovereignty in the Arctic by Barry
Scott Zellen, founding editor of TechnologyInnovator.com and
TheSourdough.com as well as deputy editor of the Strategic
Insights e-journal published by the Center for Contemporary Conflict
at the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School. The book is a work of historical and
comparative analysis that examines the Native rights movement in Alaska and
the Canadian Arctic and the evolution of land claims policy as it crossed
the international boundary, becoming a powerful tool for Native people to
reclaim their heritage and re-empower themselves politically, while at the
same time becoming stakeholders in the economic modernization of the
North.
According to Dick Hill, the first Mayor of Inuvik where
Zellen resided in the early 1990s, “Zellen’s book is timely to
understand modern northern dynamics. As the Arctic ice recedes and
temperatures rise, there is a need to take action on any benefits and to
reduce any adverse effects. His description of ‘sovereign
duality’ for northerners to be citizens and meaningful participants
is helpful. Zellen effectively describes the importance of subsistence and
how it is intertwined with land claims and co-management systems. The whole
world is affected with sustainable living and environmental preservation in
the same way that northern Native people are concerned for their regions.
Breaking the Ice is an important contribution to Arctic
understanding and open knowledge.”
Edwin Kolausok, former Deputy Mayor of Inuvik and federal
land claims negotiator, comments that “the history recorded by Zellen
in this important book is very timely and relevant in our world
today,’ and the Native “struggle to re-establish
self-sufficiency and self-determination within the federation of Canada,
via self-government and land claims, is eloquently explained by Zellen. . .
Zellen unfolds the intricate work that was done through land claims
negotiations leading to the corporate structures and their co-management
systems that ultimately will lead to self-governance, and continue to shape
the ‘domestic tranquility’ of the Arctic.”
As Dr. James Wirtz, Professor of National Security Affairs
and Interim Dean of the School of International Graduate Studies at the
U.S. Naval Postgraduate School (NPS), has observed, “In this sweeping
political and strategic history of the North American Arctic, Zellen
provides us with a fascinating account of the struggle of Native Americans
to regain some semblance of control over their lands. As global economic
growth places a premium on securing new sources of energy resources and
other raw materials, issues of sovereignty in the Far North will only grow
in importance. Zellen provides the reader with the context needed to
understand the ongoing international and domestic competition for control
of the Arctic. This is a path-breaking study of an emergent issue in world
politics.”
And as described by Dr. Thomas Johnson, the Director of
the Program for Culture and Conflict Studies at NPS: “Tribal-state
relationships, border problems, militant insurgencies, economic
exploitation/dependence and oil are the stuff of this fascinating book that
is NOT about the Middle East. Barry Zellen has written a dense
and meticulously researched book of the trials and tribulations of the
Inuit of Canada and other indigenous peoples of Alaska, Northern Canada and
the Arctic regions as they strive for sovereignty and confront and adapt to
modernity and globalization. Zellen tells a story that has significant
relevance to many of the present dilemmas facing the international
political economic system. Zellen’s Breaking the Ice: From
Land Claims to Tribal Sovereignty in the Arctic deserves broad
readership.”
Zellen first journeyed to the North in 1988 and spent much
of the next decade living and working there as a writer, editor, and
broadcast manager. Working with the Northern Native Broadcast Program
funded network of Native Communications Societies, he served as Managing
Editor of the Inuvialuit newspaper, Tusaayaksat; Executive Director of the
Native Communications Society of the NWT, and General Manager of Northern
Native Broadcasting, Yukon. He has taught a course on land claims and
northern political development at Aurora College and at the Center for
Northern Studies, and has published the pan-Arctic news and information
portal, TheSourdough.com, since 2000.
Breaking the
Ice: Book
Details
Table of Contents:
Hardcover:
Softcover:
To order a copies for display in bookstores in the
North, and/or serving readers with an interest in Northern
and Native issues, please visit lexingtonbooks.com, or call
1-800-462-6420. Or you may order a copy online by clicking on the
following text link:
Breaking the Ice: From Land Claims to Tribal Sovereignty in the Arctic 
If you would be interested in hosting a reading by the author, please contact Zellen at: editor@thesourdough.com.
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