Un/Covering the North

News, Media, and Aboriginal People

By Valerie Alia
Categories: Regional & Cultural Studies, Northern & Polar Studies
Publisher: UBC Press
Ebook (EPUB) : 9780774842112, 248 pages, November 2011
Ebook (PDF) : 9780774856324, 248 pages, January 2000

Table of contents

Illustrations and Maps

Tables

Preface

Acronyms

Chronology

Introduction

1. Southern Exposure: Portrayals of the North

2. Communications in Context: Language, Literacy, Politics and
Education

3. The Evolution of Communications in the North

4. Technology and the Circumpolar Village: Networking and
Broadcasting the Future

5. Case Study 1: Communications in the Yukon

6. Case Study 2: Print Media Coverage from Up Here and Outside /
Brian Higgins and Valerie Alia

7. Concluding Thoughts, Future Directions

Appendices

A. Native News Network of Canada Statement of Principles

B. Brief to the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples

C. Catalogue of Northern Community Radio

D. Catalogue of Northern Newspapers and Magazines

E. Catalogue of Northern Internet Resources

Notes

References

Index

Description

Despite setbacks and cutbacks, Canada leads the world in northern and
Aboriginal communications. This book provides a comprehensive survey of
communications in the circumpolar region, focusing on the Canadian
Arctic and sub-Arctic but also looking at the circumpolar North
(Alaska, Siberia, Greenland, and the Nordic/Saami nations). Radio,
television, magazines, newspapers, and web sites are all covered. As
technologies and access improve, Aboriginal people are increasingly
taking control of their own representation and consolidating their
presence in northern media. Alia concludes that Canada will maintain
its leadership in northern communications in the years ahead, given the
topic's far-reaching importance and international context.

Reviews

Valerie Alia’s study of the representation of northern First Nations and Inuit by the media of this country is a book that has been badly needed. Alia’s findings are impressive.

- Sherrill Grace

A much awaited, needed and welcome history of the interrelationships between ‘news, media and Aboriginal people’ in the Canadian North. Un/Covering the North is enjoyable reading in a well written, understandable style that will appeal to a broad readership far beyond students and scholars in media and communications studies.

- Ludger Muller-Wille

[Un/Covering the North] provides a comprehensive survey of communications in the circumpolar region, covering radio, television, magazines, newspapers, and web sites.

- University Press Books Selected for Public and Secondary School Libraries (2000)