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Media & Aboriginal Culture: An Evolving Relationship
Jul 31, 1998 – An introduction to the Summer 1998 edition of Cultural Survival, on "Aboriginal Media, Aboriginal Control" that was guest edited by Barry Zellen. When print and electronic media first entered Indian... Read the rest

Surf’s Up: NWT’s Indigenous Communities Await a Tidal Wave of Electronic Information
Apr 1, 1998 – Fred Lepine, a Metis writer, musician, and philosopher who resides in Hay River, Northwest Territories (NWT), took his first ride down the information highway just two short years ago, and... Read the rest

Aboriginal Culture Breathes Fresh Air: CKLB tastes assimilation and fights back
Jan 1, 1998 – Barry Zellen describes Yellowknife's CKLB-FM 101.9's long trek to re-assert its Aboriginal identity and rejoin the battle to sustain Aboriginal language and culture. In 1971, the Dene Nation established an... Read the rest

Lights! Camera! Aboriginal Youth!
Jul 1, 1997 – Some students in the NWT are getting a first-hand look at the world of film-making. The Native Communications Society (NCS), in a bid to train young Dene people, has launched... Read the rest

Gwich’in Language Takes To The Airwaves On CKLB
Mar 1, 1997 – Broadcasting begins in March, reinforcing Gwich'in as a living language Charlie Furlong had an idea - bring Ben Charlie's Gwich'in language radio show to the Mackenzie Delta. Barry Zellen, CKLB... Read the rest

Headline Fosters Misperception
Jul 19, 1996 – July 19, 1996 Dear Editor, I want to thank you for providing our organization, the Native Communications Society of the Western NWT, with an opportunity to present our situation to... Read the rest

Native Language News Comes To TVNC
Jul 10, 1995 – English newscasts are not part of the Native Communications Society's mandate, executive director Barry Zellen said, but native languages are. So starting July 17 there will be two-minute newscasts on... Read the rest

TVNC Introduces First Northern Daily TV News
Apr 27, 1995 – Northern Canadian TV viewers will get a brand-new information service next week. Television Northern Canada is launching the first daily televised newscast ever seen in northern Canada. Starting May 1,... Read the rest

TVNC To Provide Daily News
Apr 25, 1995 – Beginning May 1, 1995, Television Northern Canada will begin broadcasting a daily northern news capsule, Monday through Friday on the TVNC network. The two minute news capsule is a joint... Read the rest

Broadcast Funding Not Shared Equally
Apr 8, 1995 – Re: "Inuit broadcasters scramble to maintain corporation," April 8, 1995 I read with great interest an article in News/North on how last month's 14.7 per cent federal budget cut is... Read the rest

Zellen To Head NCS: New directions for Native Communications Society
Mar 20, 1995 – Barry Zellen, the new executive director for the Native Communications Society (NCS), has a theory. "If you budget for catastrophe, you'll survive," said the slightly hyperactive guy who is running... Read the rest

Land Claim’s Hope & Promise Have Vanished
Jun 5, 1994 – Ten years ago - on June 5, 1984 - in the small Beaufort Sea hamlet of Tuktoyaktuk, a very dedicated native rights organization called the Committee for Original People's Entitlement... Read the rest

Of Land Claims and Northern Development: Big Oil heads back to the Arctic after the Inuvialuit land claim is settled, finding a new regulatory environment
Jan 1, 1994 – Inuvik, NWT--Pat Boyle, in her article “Of Land Claims and Northern Development” published in the wake of the rejection of Gulf Kulluk's application to the Environmental Impact Review Board (EIRB),... Read the rest

Inuvialuit Perspectives on Military Access: Land Claims as a Continuation of War by Other Means
Jan 1, 1994 – The Inuvialuit Land Administration is based in Tuktoyaktuk, N.W.T. It shares an office with the Tuk Community Corporation and is virtually a stone’s throw from the sea. It has been... Read the rest

The Doublespeak Of Yukon Bureaucrats
Aug 27, 1993 – INUVIK, N.W.T. - I just got off the telephone with the folks over at the Department of Economic Development, and am shocked to discover that Orwell has come to the... Read the rest

Tetlit Gwich’in Council: 1992-3 Annual Report
Aug 1, 1993 – This is an unusual annual report for the Tetlit Gwich'in Council. Usually, annual and quarterly reports are written by band staff, summarizing activities over the last year or quarter. The... Read the rest

Land Claims, Sovereignty and the Modernization of the Arctic
Aug 1, 1993 – Environmental Impetus to Arctic Land Claims. The secretary of the EIRB and EISC at the time of the Kulluk review, Gary Wagner, recalled that it was the emergence of... Read the rest

Risks And Promises In The New North
May 28, 1993 – Originally printed in The Toronto Globe & Mail and The Ottawa Citizen newspapers. Nunavut / This week's historic land-claim settlement with 17,500 Inuit in the Central and Eastern Arctic was... Read the rest

500 Years after Columbus: The Liberation of Native Peoples
Dec 31, 1992 – The Decade of Democracy The 1990s have proven thus far to be a decade of chaos and disorder, as the nations of the world rise up and demand their independence... Read the rest

Banks Island Park - Almost
Oct 31, 1992 – The National Park planned for nearly half of Banks Island is one step closer to being realized. Parks Canada spokespersons say just two issues remain to be resolved between Inuvialuit... Read the rest

Earliest Ferry Closing In Eight Years
Oct 31, 1992 – The Mackenzie and Peel river ferries have a stopped operating for the winter. It was the earliest end to ferry service at Arctic Red River in eight years. It's been... Read the rest

The Charlottetown Accord: Inuvialuit Say YES, But Canada Says NO!
Oct 31, 1992 – Now that the votes in the October 26 referendum have been counted, it is clear that Canada has rejected the Charlottetown Accord. However, Inuvialuit strongly supported the Charlottetown Accord, with... Read the rest

Industrial Development: How high a price?
Oct 15, 1992 – INUVIK - The tragic and troubling explosion at Royal Oak Mines that killed nine men last week brings us a hard reminder of the risks and costs of modernization and... Read the rest

How High a Price?
Oct 1, 1992 – The tragic and troubling explosion at Royal Oak Mines which killed nine men last month brings us a hard reminder of the risks and costs of modernization and development of... Read the rest

From Arctic Imperative to Age of the Arctic
Sep 1, 1992 – With the advent of Native land claims in Canada’s north, a new Arctic Imperative emerged that pledged both Native involvement, and the protection of Native values and traditions. From the... Read the rest

One Arctic, One future?
Sep 1, 1992 – Inuit from Canada, Greenland, Alaska and Russia gathered in Inuvik and Tuktoyaktuk for the 6th General Assembly of the Inuit Circumpolar Conference in July, "to discuss issues critical to their... Read the rest

Sovereignty and Freedom in the Inupiaq Homeland
Sep 1, 1992 – Interview with General John Schaeffer on Sovereignty and Independence in the Inuit Homeland, July 1992 General John Schaeffer, who was serving as chairman of the Alaska Federation of Natives at... Read the rest

The Native Sovereignty Storm
Aug 1, 1992 – The Inupiat leadership announced at the 1992 Inuit Circumpolar Conference general assembly in Inuvik that they would sponsor a study to explore options for secession, and to establish a 51st... Read the rest

The Inuvialuit Bowhead Harvest: Restoring a Tradition
Mar 1, 1992 – On September 3, 1991, the Inuvialuit of the Western Arctic successfully harvested their first bowhead whale in more than half a century. This historic occasion restored an ancient tradition of... Read the rest

DIZ Group May Have To ‘Dizzolve’, Lacks Support
Jan 28, 1992 – Members of the Mackenzie Delta Development Impact Zone (DIZ) took a close look at the future of the DIZ last week in Inuvik. No Inuvialuit representatives were present at the... Read the rest

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