Chie Sakakibara: Expressive Culture and Climate Change in the Arctic

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Chie Sakakibara: Expressive Culture and Climate Change in the Arctic

Start: 11/12/2007 - 16:00

End: 11/12/2007 - 18:00

Timezone: Etc/GMT-4

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701C Dodge Hall

Chie Sakakibara is a PhD candidate in Cultural Geography at the University of Oklahoma, a specialist in Inupiat culture, and a consultant to the Center's repatriation project with the Inupiat community in Alaska.

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