Indigenous Peoples: Development for Preservation
... who want to make sure that nothing changes and pay scant attention to development. At the same time, most people living in the Arctic would like be equal members of larger societies, live in big cities and get higher education. In some cases, the international ... ... scholars back preserving a language for the sake of it, while many Northerners retain their identity while also adopting the Russian language, which offers them more opportunities. This issue has yet to be resolved, the solution could well lie in bilingualism. Is the migration of the younger generations of Northern peoples to the cities really a problem? How do they change their self-perception ...