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Régions: Inuvialuit Settlement Region, Gwich'in Settlement Area

étiquettes: social sciences, co-management, national parks, reconciliation

Objectif(s): To understand how Parks Canada’s promises for reconciliation are being fulfilled on the ground.

Description du projet: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.4968. The goal of this research project is to understand how Parks Canada’s promises for reconciliation are being fulfilled on the ground. The Principal Investigator (PI) would like to highlight the stories and experiences from Indigenous peoples and communities that speak to the relationships that have emerged from cooperative management agreements. The three main questions that this research will attempt to answer are: 1. What efforts are underway by Parks Canada to fulfill its promises to reconciliation and renewing relationships with Indigenous peoples? 2. How are those efforts being experienced by Indigenous peoples? 3. What stories and experiences of reconciliation and renewed relationships are emerging in general and out of park agreements? This project has the potential to generate data and reports that are beneficial to the community. The PI will be able to access Parks Canada to ensure that the community’s concerns are heard, which should inform Parks Canada of particular areas for improvement in their parks. This should also inform their practices across their parks system. The case study’s findings will be especially relevant to other Northern Parks with co-management boards established in comprehensive land claims. Older national park agreements may not be equipped to meet Parks Canada's most recent promises to reconciliation and renewed relationships. By “taking the pulse” of relationships in Ivvavik National Park, the case study will produce an assessment of how the engagement with Indigenous partners in national parks reflects national objectives. This research will contribute to the shared-governance policy work plan of Parks Canada. I will be using semi-structured one-on-one or group interviews. These interviews will involve a mix of guided questions to discuss specific topics in addition to open conversation on related ideas and themes. Each interview should last around one hour. Interviewees will be given a second opportunity to review and edit their contributions before the research reports are published. These interviews may occur over Zoom or telephone. However, as a resident of Whitehorse, in-person interviews may be possible as the vaccine rollout in Yukon and NWT progresses. This research project is not large and likely won't concern many people in the community. However, it does involve human participants for interviews so the PI would like to continue to be open and communicative as things move forward. The PI has already presented to the Aklavik Hunters and Trappers Committee (AHTC) who expressed an interest in the research project (April 8th 2021). The PI plans to contact the AHTC again before the field season to identify someone in the community who could assist as a liaison with community members. There may be people from other community organizations (Joint Secretariat, Game Council, etc.) who may be willing to participate in an interview. In that case, the PI will be sure to communicate to the community organization the nature of the research to be transparent. In terms of research communications during the field component. The PI will be able to work with the liaison to help communicate with and identify potential research participants. As part of the research methods, The PI will make sure that anyone who volunteers for an interview will be given an opportunity to look over and approve the interview transcriptions and any other contributions they made. After the field season, the PI will be working on analyses and writing reports through Winter 2021/22. The PI will use the results communications templates from ARI's resources and be mindful of using plain language when writing reports for the community. If possible, the PI intends to present the relevant findings in person to the community. The fieldwork for this study will be conducted from September 23, 2021 to December 31, 2021.