NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Coates, Alice
Licensed Year(s): 2022
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5360. The main objective of the study is to provide context for a later investigation into the attitudes of adolescent Dene language learners to the language. This ‘context’ takes the form of answers to a short survey, designed to elicit answers about the importance of the language to community members and the reasons for t...

Principal Investigator: Beddoes, Colin
Licensed Year(s): 2000 1999
Summary: The objective of this study is to carry out a strategic analysis of the opportunities and constraints facing the Dene in their implementation of eco-cultural tourism. Transportation to and on site will be by automobile. Data collection will be carried out while working under the direction of planning staff at the Dene Cultural Institute (DCI). Data collection will involve non-structured intervi...

Principal Investigator: Bedard, Joanne
Licensed Year(s): 1996
Summary: This work will involve talking to Band leaders, Elders, members of the Dene Cultural Institute and others suggested by DCI staff. Method of data collection will be designed in co-operation with community members, facilitated through DCI. Observation of the annual leadership meeting at Hay River will be included as a snapshot of current Dene socio-political issues. Confidentiality will be maintai...

Principal Investigator: Lescanec, Heidi
Licensed Year(s): 1995 1994
Summary: The researcher will assist with a variety of Institute activities, including proposal writing and data collection and analysis, in order to better understand how this agency documents traditional environmental knowledge. In addition, the researcher is interested in knowing how traditional knowledge is used toward developing policies for sustainable development....

Principal Investigator: Smith, Shirleen
Licensed Year(s): 1993 1992
Summary: I am addressing issues of how Dene traditions of governance are reflected in models currently being developed, and how these might be accomodated within the democratic institutions of Canadian government. I will focus on an area of research that is both interesting and timely: Aboriginal views on the meaning of their treaties with the Crown in Canada....

Principal Investigator: Sprecher, Dawn
Licensed Year(s): 1990
Summary: The Researcher will conduct informal discussions and interviews with people in all levels of government specifically Native involvement at the Territorial and Community level. The interviews will discuss methods that would best serve each community's need for self government....

Principal Investigator: Kritsch, Ingrid D.
Licensed Year(s): 1990
Summary: The Researcher will live in the community of Trout Lake for 14 months. During that time, she will write a general ethnography of the Trout Lake people with a particular emphasis on the economy and the social networks within the community....

Principal Investigator: Asch, Michael I.
Licensed Year(s): 1975
Summary: A study of the economic history of the Slavey Indians at Wrigley during the years 1900 to about 1960....

Principal Investigator: Gardner, Peter
Licensed Year(s): 1975
Summary: Studies of the Slavey language....

Principal Investigator: Gardner, Peter
Licensed Year(s): 1974
Summary: A study of the ways in which a quiet socially individualtistic poeple,in this case the Slavey Indians, use their language....