Amanda Graham

Yukon University · School of Liberal Arts

The Northern Review has a tradition of documenting and commenting on developments in the North, in the Yukon, and in Yukon College more specifically. For fifty-two years Yukon College has been a fixture of Yukon society, first as a vocational school and then as a community. Now poised to become the first university north of the sixtieth parallel, t...

Since 1964, there have been four periods in which a northern university for the Canadian territories was proposed or attempted. The first, from 1964 to 1982, coincided with such motivating national forces as postwar expansion and renovation of the post-secondary sector with new universities and community colleges, northern development, and land cla...

The political mobilization of indigenous peoples in the North American North has resulted in new guidelines, statements of ethical principles, and consultative processes for the conduct of scientific research. This article explores the history of large-scale physical science in the North, the development of ethical principles for research conduct i...

Today's North—the international Arctic—needs citizens with a broad grasp of the circumpolar picture, who understand its common problems and who share a basic orientation and vocabulary. The capable northern citizen is emerging from the region itself, from northern institutions that are self-consciously nurturing and educating their region's peoples...

This paper won the Canadian Northern Studies Trust essay competition in 1990 and the accompanying Northern Studies Undergraduate Medal for Canada. At the time of writing, Northern Studies, as still a fairly new academic field, wrestled with the problem of definition. Where is "the North" that is the concern of this areal study. This paper aimed at...

The State of Rural Canada (SORC) https://sorc.crrf.ca/sorc2021/ is a biennial report developed to highlight opportunities and challenges that rural communities face. Previous iterations of the SORC have explored a variety of themes. This edition of the SORC examines opportunities, recovery, and resilience in the changing times of the COVID-19 pande...

Needle, Bead and Voice was a research project that took place between 2014 and 2015 in Whitehorse, Yukon. It was undertaken by Nicole Bauberger, with Amanda Graham from Yukon College, in collaboration with Mrs. Annie Smith and her daughter, Ms. Dianne Smith, both elders of the Kwanlin Dün First Nation, a self-governing First Nation with a contempor...

This is the Yukon chapter of the State of Rural Canada report, which came about in order to draw attention to rural challenges and opportunities, and to provide a source of information and a platform for information sharing. The chapters of the report focus on the rural trends within each province and territory, ending with a summary discussion cha...

In February 2002, Yukon College lost a visionary founder. Aron Senkpiel had joined the new college in 1983 and devoted almost twenty years of his professional life to developing university-level programs at the college, to brokering professional degrees for delivery in the Yukon, and to laying the groundwork for the college's future evolution to gr...

Maureen Long Yukon College Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada Northern Studies at Canadian universities is a fairly young field of study. 1 hi" paper examines lists of northern studies courses of three academic years, 72 -~ . 90/91 and 96/96 and concludes that northern studies courses at the undergraJuJ(t' level are, in general, expanding both in the number...

Academic historians have only turned their attentions to the history of the Yukon within the last thirty years or so. The accounts of Yukon history, written from a purely or relatively purely academic perspective, have tended to focus on the development of the territory since the first arrivals of non-Natives. One of the notable features of the wor...

Much of the Canadian North has existed, and still does to a degree, in a sort of historiographical dead zone. The paper reflects on multiple aspects of the writing of northern history in Canada and concludes that the problem of the limited production of academic northern history does not stem from any one condition or obstacle. Rather, a number of...

The creation, by federal letters patent, of The University of Canada North (UCN) in March 1971, is an important event in the history of education in the Canadian North. The brain-child of Richard Rohmer, a prominent Toronto lawyer, and some fifty-seven residents of the two northern territories, the UCN initiative was intended to be a grass-roots no...