Human Geographic Research in the North American Northern Lands

Abstract

Contain survey of research problems in relation to future northern settlement. Significance of the region to population of the rest of the world, historical patterns of settlement, available resources, and self-sufficiency of future settlements are discussed. Population of Alaska, northern Canada, and Greenland is considered: problems of enumeration, distribution, and permanence of settlement. Frontier settlement research needs and methods are outlined: frontiers in terms of agriculture, mining, land transportation, white-native contact; methods of new settlement by native and non-native.