An inernational scientific conference, "East meets West: oral tradition, epic text and representation in art" will be organized in Yakutsk, Russia June 15-17, 2011. The conference focuses on the questions of functioning of oral tradition on contemporary social and cultural context, problems, related to the study of fol...

AMAP – The Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme is a Working Group under the Arctic Council with the objective to”providing reliable and sufficient information on the status of, and threats to, the Arctic environment and its inhabitants, and providing scientific advice on actions to be taken in order to support A...

The United States is the last of the four countries that voted against the UN Declaration to reverse its position. President Obama announced last Thursday, "The aspirations [the Declaration] affirms -- including the respect for the institutions and rich cultures of Native peoples -- are one we must always seek to fulfill...B...