<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss version="2.0"
	xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
	xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"
	xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
	xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
	xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
	xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/"
	>

<channel>
	<title>Pacific Environment Blog &#187; Indigenous Life</title>
	<atom:link href="http://pacificenvironment.org/blog/tag/indigenous-life/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
	<link>http://pacificenvironment.org/blog</link>
	<description></description>
	<lastBuildDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 21:57:29 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<language>en</language>
	<sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod>
	<sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency>
	<generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1</generator>
		<item>
		<title>Beautiful Books about Kamchatka’s Salmon; from the rivers to the kitchen</title>
		<link>http://pacificenvironment.org/blog/2011/02/beautiful-books-about-kamchatka%e2%80%99s-salmon-from-the-rivers-to-the-kitchen/</link>
		<comments>http://pacificenvironment.org/blog/2011/02/beautiful-books-about-kamchatka%e2%80%99s-salmon-from-the-rivers-to-the-kitchen/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Feb 2011 19:11:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>igor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Biodiversity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Communities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Freshwater]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Regions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[communities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[community partners]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fisheries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indigenous Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kamchatka]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rivers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russian Far East]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Salmon]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://pacificenvironment.org/blog/?p=899</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Nearly 300 years ago, one of the first researchers of the Kamchatka Peninsula, George Stelleronce wrote: “Kamchatka lives almost solely on fish. If you hit the water with a spear you rarely miss a fish.  Fishing nets or seines are useless in Kamchatka for that reason.  It’s impossible to drag them ashore, they tear because [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://pacificenvironment.org/blog/2011/02/beautiful-books-about-kamchatka%e2%80%99s-salmon-from-the-rivers-to-the-kitchen/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>A Cultural Revival in Kamchatka: Alkhalalalai and the Itelmen Community</title>
		<link>http://pacificenvironment.org/blog/2010/10/a-cultural-revival-in-kamchatka-alkhalalalai-and-the-itelmen-community/</link>
		<comments>http://pacificenvironment.org/blog/2010/10/a-cultural-revival-in-kamchatka-alkhalalalai-and-the-itelmen-community/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Oct 2010 23:47:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>igor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arctic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Communities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indigenous Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Itelmen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kamchatka]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russian Far East]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://pacificenvironment.org/blog/?p=774</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Almost every culture has a celebration to give thanks to nature for the previous year, the harvest, and the supplies stored for the winter. The Itelmen, one of the most ancient peoples of Kamchatka, call this holiday Alkhalalalai which is traditionally celebrated on the last weekend of September.  Recently this holiday has been celebrated [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://pacificenvironment.org/blog/2010/10/a-cultural-revival-in-kamchatka-alkhalalalai-and-the-itelmen-community/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Passing Culture Through the Generations</title>
		<link>http://pacificenvironment.org/blog/2010/09/passing-culture-through-the-generations/</link>
		<comments>http://pacificenvironment.org/blog/2010/09/passing-culture-through-the-generations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Sep 2010 17:51:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>igor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Communities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[community partners]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[indigenous cultures]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indigenous Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kamchatka]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Salmon]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://pacificenvironment.org/blog/?p=694</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; This past weekend we were fortunate to attend the Golden Springs Festival, which celebrates the creative arts of the indigenous peoples of the North, Siberia, and Far East. The festival took place in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. The festival’s gala concert was held in the recently refurbished drama theater. The performers met their guests at the theater’s [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://pacificenvironment.org/blog/2010/09/passing-culture-through-the-generations/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Working to Save the Sacred Lands of Altai</title>
		<link>http://pacificenvironment.org/blog/2010/09/working-to-protect-sacred-sites-in-altai/</link>
		<comments>http://pacificenvironment.org/blog/2010/09/working-to-protect-sacred-sites-in-altai/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 17:40:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>galina</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Communities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Regions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Altai]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[community partners]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indigenous Life]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://pacificenvironment.org/blog/?p=681</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; My recent trip to Altai was my third since last year and every time I traveled through the Republic, it was a time for reflection and discovery. My former colleagues and friends who have worked or still work in Altai warn me that it is a special and sacred place, and that once visited, [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://pacificenvironment.org/blog/2010/09/working-to-protect-sacred-sites-in-altai/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Videos from Kamchatka</title>
		<link>http://pacificenvironment.org/blog/2010/08/videos-from-kamchatka/</link>
		<comments>http://pacificenvironment.org/blog/2010/08/videos-from-kamchatka/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 16:51:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Biodiversity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Communities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Freshwater]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[communities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fisheries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indigenous Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kamchatka]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rivers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russian Far East]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Salmon]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://pacificenvironment.org/blog/?p=679</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; I shot the following videos at Lake Azabache and in Bistrinsky Nature Park in central Kamchatka during a mid-July trip with my colleague Igor Goldfarb. Here you can see a spawning stream filled with sockeye salmon as they complete the final leg of their journey to the spawning grounds. When I took this video, [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://pacificenvironment.org/blog/2010/08/videos-from-kamchatka/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Trekking in Kamchatka&#8217;s Wild &#8211; Part 2</title>
		<link>http://pacificenvironment.org/blog/2010/07/trekking-in-kamchatkas-wild-part-2/</link>
		<comments>http://pacificenvironment.org/blog/2010/07/trekking-in-kamchatkas-wild-part-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 21:23:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Biodiversity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Communities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[communities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fisheries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[forests]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indigenous Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kamchatka]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rivers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russian Far East]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://pacificenvironment.org/blog/?p=601</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; I have never seen so many insects in my life. Tiny black flies, quarter-sized mosquitoes and enormous horseflies competed to distract Tatiana Indanova as she crouched at the edge of a spring-fed creek in the 90-degree afternoon heat, using one hand to collect aquatic insect larvae, or benthos, while swatting the biting insects with [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://pacificenvironment.org/blog/2010/07/trekking-in-kamchatkas-wild-part-2/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Trekking Through Kamchatka&#8217;s Wild</title>
		<link>http://pacificenvironment.org/blog/2010/07/treking-through-kamchatkas-wild/</link>
		<comments>http://pacificenvironment.org/blog/2010/07/treking-through-kamchatkas-wild/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 23:56:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Biodiversity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Communities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[community partners]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indigenous Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kamchatka]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russian Far East]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://pacificenvironment.org/blog/?p=599</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Kolya is the kind of boss that everyone at once prays they will have and dreads they will end up with. As a leader he is nearly flawless; knowledgeable, experienced, and deadly calm under pressure. As a teacher, he is all of these things, but also impatient, short-tempered, and sarcastic. Kolya is the indigenous [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://pacificenvironment.org/blog/2010/07/treking-through-kamchatkas-wild/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Victory for the Forest in Altai</title>
		<link>http://pacificenvironment.org/blog/2010/06/victory-for-the-forest-in-altai/</link>
		<comments>http://pacificenvironment.org/blog/2010/06/victory-for-the-forest-in-altai/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 21:17:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Biodiversity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Regions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Altai]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[community partners]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[forests]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indigenous Life]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://pacificenvironment.org/blog/?p=556</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Posted by Jon Spaulding The Russian environmental community won a victory in late May when a Pacific Environment partner NGO, Geblerovsky Ecological Society (GES) successfully challenged the commercial logging company Birch and the government agency that issued the permit to clear-cut a ‘protected’ forest reserve in pristine, remote Altai Krai, in southern Siberia. On May [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://pacificenvironment.org/blog/2010/06/victory-for-the-forest-in-altai/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Day of the Reindeer Herder in Esso</title>
		<link>http://pacificenvironment.org/blog/2010/03/day-of-the-reindeer-herder-in-esso/</link>
		<comments>http://pacificenvironment.org/blog/2010/03/day-of-the-reindeer-herder-in-esso/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:44:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>igor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Communities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cultural traditions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indigenous Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kamchatka]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reindeer herders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russian Far East]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://pacificenvironment.org/blog/?p=439</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; The Day of the Reindeer Herder for the first time received the status of an official holiday in Kamchatka on the Kamchatka peninsula. The holiday was celebrated on March 6, 2010 in the indigenous village of Esso. Pacific Environment’s Kamchatka Field Associate Igor Goldfarb visited Esso with his wife Alla, and they have recorded [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://pacificenvironment.org/blog/2010/03/day-of-the-reindeer-herder-in-esso/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>The Sacred Land Of Altai, Russia</title>
		<link>http://pacificenvironment.org/blog/2010/02/the-sacred-land-of-altai-russia/</link>
		<comments>http://pacificenvironment.org/blog/2010/02/the-sacred-land-of-altai-russia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:40:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>galina</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Communities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Regions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Altai]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[community partners]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indigenous Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russian Far East]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://pacificenvironment.org/blog/?p=383</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; My colleague Evan Sparling and I recently traveled to Altai to touch base with our partners in the field, meet with regional stakeholders, and participate in a conference on sacred sites organized by one of our partners – the Foundation for Sustainable Development of Altai. As I have now fully transitioned into my [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://pacificenvironment.org/blog/2010/02/the-sacred-land-of-altai-russia/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
	</channel>
</rss>

