The Fan Hitch Volume 6, Number 4, September 2004

Journal of the Inuit Sled Dog

Table of Contents

Editorial: Looking for Inuit Dogs Past and Present
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F.I.D.O.: Jan Erik and Barbro  Engebretsen
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First Camping Adventure with Greenland Dogs
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The Breeding and Maintenance of Sledge Dogs, Part II
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A Cut Above the Rest
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In the News
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Book Reviews:
Hunting Laika Breeds of Russia
Primitive Breeds - Perfect Dogs
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 IMHO: Waiting for Godot?
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Index to Volume 6

Navigating This Site
Index of articles by subject

Index of back issues by volume number

Search The Fan Hitch

Articles to download and print

Ordering Ken MacRury's Thesis

Our comprehensive list of resources

Talk to The Fan Hitch

The Fan Hitch home page

ISDI home page

Editor's/Publisher's Statement
Editor: Sue Hamilton
Webmaster: Mark Hamilton
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The Fan Hitch welcomes your letters, stories, comments and suggestions. The editorial staff reserves the right to edit submissions used for publication.

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This site is dedicated to the Inuit Dog as well as related Inuit culture and traditions. It is also home to The Fan Hitch, Journal of the Inuit Sled Dog.


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In The News.....

The Fan Hitch Heads North

Nunavik's Kativik School Board, in northern Quebec, took a subscription to The Fan Hitch for each of its fifteen schools. The Inuit Sled Dog International hopes the journal will help reinforce awareness of the Inuit Sled Dog and its cultural implications. This comes on the heels of the Ivakkak Sled Dog Race in which, according to the rules, only Inuit Dogs and qamutiit used in the traditional manner are permitted - definitely a progressive move on the part of Nunavik.

ISD Books Heading North

ISDI-Canada, in cooperation with Whippoorwill Press, is donating Geneviève Montcombroux's book, The Canadian Inuit Dog: Canada's Heritage, to community schools and public libraries in Nunavut and Nunavik.

ISDI Donations

Minnesota, USA residents Marcus and Jane Bustad and their nine-year-old daughter Sara, made a generous donation to help the ISDI develop awareness of the Inuit Sled Dog among arctic Canada's youth.

The ISDI is always grateful for donations and bequests, all of which support ISDI programs to foster an understanding of the Inuit Dog and its role in the Inuit culture.

Greenland Dogs in Mushing Magazine

The September/October 2004 issue of Mushing Magazine included a brief but lively account of a sled dog adventure by three members of the United States Air Force (and one Danish civilian scientist) none of whom had previously experienced arctic dog team travel. Accompanying the article is a stunning photograph of a ISD team out of Qaanaaq, Greenland. For those of you who do not subscribe to Mushing Magazine but do have internet access, you may read an expanded account which includes a color version of Mushing Magazine's black and white photo at <http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?storyID=123007772>. It is encouraging to see some fine looking examples of Inuit Dogs in that corner of the world. 
 
 
 

 
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