NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Pearce, Tristan D
Licensed Year(s): 2019
Summary: The goal is to examine cultural education at Helen Kalvak School and its role in the transmission of traditional knowledge. Specific objectives are to: 1) identify cultural programming at Helen Kalvak School; 2) document the meaning of cultural education for Inuit students; and to 3) describe how cultural education helps to transmit traditional knowledge such as hunting and sewing as well as o...

Principal Investigator: Pearce, Tristan D
Licensed Year(s): 2014 2013 2012
Summary: To work in collaboration with community members to: 1. create a local research team that will guide project development, implementation, evaluation and monitoring’ 2. identify and develop culturally acceptable ways to document, conserve and promote Inuit traditional knowledge (IK) to prevent, prepare for and manage the impacts of climate change on health (specifically targeting younger generatio...

Principal Investigator: Malazdrewicz, Valerie
Licensed Year(s): 2008
Summary: The objective of this research is to establish the oral health status of the average Inuk which will be directly comparable to the oral health status of the average Canadian. The survey team, comprised of a dentist examiner(s) and clinic coordinator(s) will visit Tuktoyaktuk for approximately 2 weeks in length. Potential participants will be identified then randomly selected from the list. Pa...

Principal Investigator: Egeland, Grace M
Licensed Year(s): 2010 2008
Summary: This licence was issued for the scientific research application #740. The Inuit Health Survey was developed to better understand the factors contributing to Inuit health and the Inuit spirit of thriving in the face of changes. This health information has practical relevance and allows informed decisions to help minimize the negative consequences of the rapid transitions that continue to occur ...

Principal Investigator: Heffel Ponting, Heffel Ponting
Licensed Year(s): 2003
Summary: A qualitative design has been selected to obtain descriptions of Inuit culture. The people of Paulatuk have also expressed a desire to present data in their own words. Grounded theory method will be used for this research. Within this method, as data are...

Principal Investigator: Lenoir, Lenoir
Licensed Year(s): 2002
Summary: The information will work towards improving health status and health care delivery for First Nations and help their governments get a better long term picture of their community, region and country as the survey is carried out over 4 years. There are 3 a...

Principal Investigator: Usher, Peter J.
Licensed Year(s): 1994 1993
Summary: The researchers will be continuing their interviews with community members on identifying contaminant issues and information needs related to those issues. Interviews will be conducted with a wide range of individuals, including harvesters, elders, women, youth and professionals. An appropriate communication strategy will be developed in an appropriate cultural and social context....

Principal Investigator: Corkal, J.
Licensed Year(s): 1993
Summary: Certain defects of the lumbar spine are thought to occur at a very high rate in the Canadian Inuit. This has been previously documented in the literature by anthropological studies of Inuit skeletons dating back some 400 years: these studies have found a particular type of defect to be present at an incidence of 30-40%. The incidence in a Caucasion population is 5%....

Principal Investigator: Collingnon, Beatrice
Licensed Year(s): 1992
Summary: To continue to study Inuit geography, their geographical thoughts about the land, their perception of space and the way they organize their knowledge of the land into a general explanation of the world around them; to record Inuit categories of perceiving them and their territories....

Principal Investigator: D'Anglure, Bernard Saladin
Licensed Year(s): 1992
Summary: The research will involve the study of Inuit leaders and political development. How one became a leader among the Inuit, traditionally and in the present time using factors such as kinship, leadership, personal performance, authority and religious power will be be investigated....