The Fan Hitch   Volume 17, Number 4, September 2015

          Journal of the Inuit Sled Dog                                    
In This Issue....

From the Editor: The Statistics of Sharing

Fan Mail

Contaminated Water! Yet Another
Long-standing Debacle in Iqaluit


Searching for the Shelters of Stone

How to Loose a Husky Team

 
A New Home for the BAS Husky Memorial Bronze Statue

Historical and Climatic Prerequisites of the
Appearance of the Population of Sled Dogs of the
Shoreline of the Chukotka Peninsula

 
The Sledge Patrol documentary update
 
Major Virus Issues in Canada’s North and
Canine Parvovirus Infects Inuit Dogs in
Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, 1978


A Decade of Service: The Chinook Project’s
2015 Labrador Animal Wellness Clinic


Inuk’s release in North America!

Book Review: Games of Survival: Traditional
Inuit Games for
Elementary Students


IMHO: The Presumption of Good Faith

Index: Volume 17, The Fan Hitch

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“Skunk” a nine year-old boss dog enjoying retirement in Connecticut
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Index: Volume 17, The Fan Hitch

Adventure
N2: Retracing Twenty-Five Year-Old Foot and Paw Steps
N3: Pangaggujjniq Nunavut Quest 2015
N4: Searching for Shelters of Stone

Cooking and Crafts
N2: Bannock – On the Frozen Sea, in the Woods or at Home
N3: Bannock – The Movie!

Editorials
N1: Heading Out and Coming Home
N2: Fed Up!
N3: The Next Hill...
N4: The Statistics of Sharing

Fan Mail
N3: Former musher now aboriginal dog owner writes
N4: Norwegian GISD owner adds an “historical P.S.” to June’s “Making of The Savage Innocents”

General
N1: Far Fur Country Documentary Projects Come to Fruition!
       Okpik’s Dream en Route to Completion
       Puvirnituq Snow Festival
N2: IsumaTV’s First Annual Online Film Festival
       Paving Over Cultural Identity
       Okpik’s Dream Update
N3: In Memory of Lyudmilla Bogoslovskaya
       Paving over cultural identity: Update
N4: The Sledge Patrol documentary update
        A new Home for the BAS Husky Memorial Bronze Statue
        Inuk’s Release in North America

Health, Science and Ethology
N1: The Epidemiology of Rabies in the Canadian North
N3: Inuit Dogs’ Indigenous Heritage Confirmed!
N4: Contaminated Water! Yet Another Long Standing Debacle in Iqaluit
       A Decade of Service: The Chinook Project’s 2015 Labrador Animal Wellness Clinic
       Major Virus Issues in Canada’s North and Canine Parvovirus Infects Inuit Dogs in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, 1978

History
N3: British Explorers Dogged By Myths
       Making of The Savage Innocents
N4: How to Lose a Husky Team
       Historical and Climatic Prerequisites of the Appearance of the Population of Sled Dogs of the Shoreline of the Chukotka Peninsula

In My Humble Opinion
N1: The Best Laid Plans
N2: Truth, History and Dogs
N3: It Ain’t Easy
N4: The Presumption of Good Faith

In the News
N3: Atanarjuat: Canada’s Best Film Ever!; Ancient Wolf Genome Pushes Back Dawn of the Dog; New Rabies in the North

Media Review
N1: How to Build an Iglu and a Qamutiik (book)
N2: The Romance of the Far Fur Country (documentary)
       On the Trail of the Far Fur Country (documentary)
N3: Never Alone (computer game)
N4: Games of Survival: Traditional Inuit Games for Elementary Students (book)
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