Cover -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Introduction. Contesting the Arctic (Keith Battarbee/John Erik Fossum) -- Part One: Territory and Politics in the Arctic -- Contesting the Arctic. Territory and Politics (Keith Battarbee/John Erik Fossum) -- Responding to Change in the North. Comparing Recent Canadian and American Foreign Policies in the Arctic (Douglas C. Nord) -- Asia as a Complicating Factor in Canada-US Northern Diplomacy (David G. Haglund/Joseph T. Jockel) -- A Canadian Dire Strait. The Northwest Passage from a Legalist Perspective (John Kennair) -- Cold Peace. Arctic Cooperation and Canadian Foreign Policy (Michael byers) -- Breaking the Ice. The European Union and the Arctic (Steffen Weber/Iulian Romanyshyn) -- The Other Sovereignties. Québec and the Arctic (Stéphane Roussel/Jean-François Payette) -- Part Two: Indigenous Perspectives in the Arctic -- Living in the Arctic. Indigenous Perspectives and Issues (Keith Battarbee/John Erik Fossum) -- Inuit in Canada (Donna Patrick) -- Canadian Inuit. Where we have been and where we are going (Mary Simon) -- The Promises of Consultations? (Else Grete Broderstad/Hans-Kristian Hernes) -- Aboriginal title. Bounds and Parcels of Aboriginal Lands in Canada and Norway (Brian Ballantyne) -- Shifting Language Policy Priorities in Arctic North America. Pragmatism, Privilege, and Political Correctness (Keith Battarbee) -- Part Three: Representations and Experiences of the Arctic -- Experiencing the Arctic. Representations and Responses (Keith Battarbee/John Erik Fossum) -- "We Stand on Guard". The "True North Strong and Free" War, the Arts, and the Canadian North (Sherrill Grace) -- "Stillness destroys them". Northern Space and Movement in Rudy Wiebe's Writing (Janne Korkka) -- North. Of Beauty, Of Love, and Of Stairways to Heaven (Aritha Van Herk).