Caroline Cannon or Aqugaq is an
Iñupiaq leader and environmentalist from
Point Hope
Point Hope (, ) is a city in North Slope Borough, Alaska, United States. At the 2010 census the population was 674, down from 757 in 2000. In the 2020 Census, the population rose to 830.
Like many isolated communities in Alaska, the city has ...
, Alaska. She was awarded the
Goldman Environmental Prize
The Goldman Environmental Prize is a prize awarded annually to grassroots environmental activists.
History
Awardees are named from each of the world's six geographic regions: Africa, Asia, Europe, Islands and Island Nations, North America, an ...
in 2012 for her fight for protection of marine ecosystems against pollution from the petroleum industry.
In 2020, Cannon co-authored a chapter, "We Will Fight to Protect the Arctic Ocean and Our Way of Life," with Robert Thompson, Rosemary Ahtuangaruak and Earl Kingik in Arctic Voices (
Seven Stories Press
Seven Stories Press is an independent American publishing company. Based in New York City, the company was founded by Dan Simon in 1995, after establishing Four Walls Eight Windows in 1984 as an imprint at Writers and Readers, and then incorpor ...
), edited by
Subhankar Banerjee Subhankar Banerjee may refer to:
* Subhankar Banerjee (musician) (1966–2021), Indian classical musician and tabla player of the Farukhabad gharana
* Subhankar Banerjee (photographer) (born 1967), Indian photographer
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.
References
Further reading
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21st-century Alaska Native people
Alaska Native activists
Alaska Native women
American environmentalists
American women environmentalists
Date of birth unknown
Inupiat people
Living people
People from North Slope Borough, Alaska
Goldman Environmental Prize awardees
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American women
American Inuit women
21st-century Inuit people
21st-century Inuit women
Inuit activists
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