NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Irlbacher-Fox, Stephanie
Licensed Year(s): 1998
Summary: This project will involve researching Inuvialuit and Gwich'in traditional governance and how this can be used in shaping self government institutions. To do this research the self government office plans to: 1) hire community development workers in each community, 2) train community development workers in the skills they need to do the research and work on other areas of self government, 3) worker...

Principal Investigator: Dressler, Wolfram
Licensed Year(s): 1998
Summary: The objective of the study is to identify both the current and future positive and negative impacts of nature-based tourism within the Delta. The study will be carried out through the Inuvik Research Centre. Tourists will be canvassed at drop-off points and surveys will be mailed out according to visitor listings. Visitor surveys will be left at camp grounds and hotels. The same procedure will occ...

Principal Investigator: Borisov, Andrian
Licensed Year(s): 1996
Summary: Studies in the Northwest Territories are a part of a comparative study of Canadian and Russian Norths to understand the problems and prospects for greater aboriginal self-determination. Areas examined included the level of aboriginal organization, at local, district and regional levels; the resources available to aboriginal peoples and their leadership to pursue collective interests; the types of...

Principal Investigator: Isaak, Tony
Licensed Year(s): 1995
Summary: The researcher will interview a random sample of Aklavik's Inuvialuit household heads, utilizing a questionnaire and an informal interview approach, in order to investigate the level of participiation in traditional activities. The researcher also intends to accompany a hunter or trapper ( or both) on a short trip(s) in order to gain first hand experience of such activities...

Principal Investigator: Bone, Robert M.
Licensed Year(s): 1994
Summary: The Inuvialuit Final Agreement has brought much change to the Western Arctic. This Agreement has involved the transfer of capital, land and political power to the Inuvialuit. This study hopes to determine the effect of the IFA on the Inuvialuit. The researchers will collect data from public sources (Statistics Canada censuses, Labour Force surveys) as well as reports provided by the Inuvialuit ...

Principal Investigator: Rodriguez, Marisol
Licensed Year(s): 1994 1993
Summary: The researcher will be interviewing Inuvialuit participants in the Inuvik music festival in order to examine how music reflects changes in culture. This research is part of a larger effort which examines musical culture of Inuit in Canada....

Principal Investigator: Hart, Elisa J.
Licensed Year(s): 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991
Summary: The traditional knowledge project is funded through NOGAP and is provided to the Heritage Centre for devising means for dealing with the impacts of oil development on Inuvialuit heritage resources. We are also developing and testing a training program that can provide northerners with skills and information required to assist with projects on traditional knowledge. Training involves learning how...

Principal Investigator: Lennie, Naudia
Licensed Year(s): 1993
Summary: The researcher and guide/translator will travel the Mackenzie Delta regions of Thrasher Channel, Napoiak, Big Jim Channel and Horseshoe Bend to find the locations of camp and hunting sites, as well as cabins and legendary sites, that may be important to Inuvialuit history. Traditional place names and land use will also be recorded. Information will be obtained from elders who are living out on t...

Principal Investigator: Freeman, Milton M.R.
Licensed Year(s): 1994 1993 1992
Summary: Under the direction of the Aklavik and Inuvik HTA's, the research team will carry out interviews with Inuvialuit that are knowledgable about the broad whitefish and its fishery in the local waters. Data to be obtained include information on the traditional fishery, changes to this fishery, knowledge about the breeding and feeding habits, migrations, parasites and diseases, and effects of local en...

Principal Investigator: Nagy, Murielle
Licensed Year(s): 1991
Summary: In conjunction with the Inuvialuit Social Development Program, the Researchers will gather the oral history concerning the lives of Inuvialuit along the Yukon North Slope. They will document post-contact aboriginal land use as recorded in historic sites, graves, resource extraction areas, caches, look-outs, trails, place names and gathering places in the Yukon North Slope....