Dima’s Reviews > The Right to Be Cold: One Woman's Story of Protecting Her Culture, the Arctic and the Whole Planet > Status Update

“…from an unhealthy codependent relationship with the trading companies, religious missionaries and governments to similar relationships with today’s governing bureaucracy, social service agencies, lawyers, and consultants. And our historically learned distrust of qallunaat advisors and institutions has complicated our relationship with conservationists, animal rights activists and environmentalists.”

Cryosphere is a cool word

I just remembered her brother getting emotional about her mentioning him leading the dogsleds when they were kids, so cute

I don’t believe in politics of influence over conflict/confrontation or working with, not against, stakeholders but you do you queen

She met Nelson Mandela!!???!?

“The world is generally much more aware of the Arctic’s wildlife than its people.”

“…but we always had to be mindful that our funding sures included the government of Canada. And we knew that the most effective way to get our message across was if it was represented in the Canadian government's speaking points as well.”

Sigh politics

100+ delegates are collectively rewriting a document? Yeah I’d kms

“…didn’t even have the language with which to discuss the issue with our population. There is no word in Inuktitut for toxins or pollution, never mind POPs. They settled on sukkunaruit, the Inuktitut word meaning “harmful substances.””

I never thought DDT would come up so much in my life shoutout Mr. Ott