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Indigenous Ways of Knowing: Aboriginal Women's Experiences with Beadwork
Principal Investigator: Edge, Lois E.
Licensed Year(s): 2009 2008 2007
Summary: Project objectives include visiting with Elderly Aboriginal women in Fort McPherson and Fort Smith to conduct interviews to learn about their experiences with bead work. A study of women's participation in bead work may help the researcher to better understand the importance of participating in traditional cultural activities to identity formation and individual health and well-being. The rese...
Licensed Year(s): 2009 2008 2007
Summary: Project objectives include visiting with Elderly Aboriginal women in Fort McPherson and Fort Smith to conduct interviews to learn about their experiences with bead work. A study of women's participation in bead work may help the researcher to better understand the importance of participating in traditional cultural activities to identity formation and individual health and well-being. The rese...
The Dene Moose Hide Tanning Project
Principal Investigator: Irlbacher-Fox, Stephanie
Licensed Year(s): 2007
Summary: Tanning moose hide is a Dene cultural practice which continues from ancient times, practiced almost exclusively by Dene women. Today, tanned moose hide is prized as a material for ceremonial clothing, and is a marker of the continued vitality of indigenous knowledge and social practices, including bush skills, culture and values, tanning, and sewing. It creates positive social dynamics including k...
Licensed Year(s): 2007
Summary: Tanning moose hide is a Dene cultural practice which continues from ancient times, practiced almost exclusively by Dene women. Today, tanned moose hide is prized as a material for ceremonial clothing, and is a marker of the continued vitality of indigenous knowledge and social practices, including bush skills, culture and values, tanning, and sewing. It creates positive social dynamics including k...
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