37 record(s) found in the location "Inuvialuit Settlement Region" (multi-year projects are grouped):
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What was, is, and might be: Cartography on Arctic Shores
Principal Investigator: Lamontagne-Cumiford, Mathieu Alvin
Licensed Year(s): 2024
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 6012. The climate crisis is being felt deeply in the MacKenzie Delta and intense attention - scientific, political, and otherwise - can be witnessed in the communities there. The pingos and tundra see all manner of scientists and researchers, busily measuring, mapping, and documenting a landscape that is in some places qui...


Working Towards a Community-Based Archaeology of Banks Island, NWT
Principal Investigator: Kelvin, Laura E
Licensed Year(s): 2015 2014 2013
Summary: The primary objectives of this research are to: 1) begin documenting traditional knowledge of Banks Island that could contribute to our understanding of life on the island in the past; 2) identify similarities and differences between Inuvialuit and archaeological values, priorities and understandings of the past; 3) work with Sachs Harbour community members to develop culturally appropriate questi...


Climate change impacts on Inuit food security in Canada’s Western Arctic: Constructing a comparative anthropological model to guide adaptation planning
Principal Investigator: Douglas, Vasiliki K
Licensed Year(s): 2012 2010
Summary: The purpose of this project is to assist the Inuvialuit in adaptation planning that will meet ongoing environmental and social challenges, while also maintaining their rights under the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. The existing knowledge, skills and networks that facilitate such adaptations are important community ‘assets’ that form the basis of capacity-building. The goal ...


Pitquhiraluavut Puiglimiatavut (We will not forget our ways): Bringing home photographs of the Inuinnait Collection at the British Museum
Principal Investigator: Balanoff, Helen
Licensed Year(s): 2012 2007 2007
Summary: Through a partnership of Inuinnait communities and the British Museum, this project aims to repatriate traditional knowledge (language, literacies, narratives, values and beliefs) through viewing and visiting “things that talk” (historical photographs and objects) currently in the British Museum in London, England. This project involves visual repatriation of traditional knowledge through histo...


RHD Alleles in Prenatal Patients from Northern Canada
Principal Investigator: Hannon, Judith L
Licensed Year(s): 2014 2013 2012 2011 2006
Summary: To confirm that the RhD phenotype is appropriately assigned in a population of prenatal patients that has not been studied for the presence of variant RHD gene alleles that would require them to be assigned an Rh-negative status and treated with Rh immune globulin Samples will be selected for analysis among prenatal samples from the Northwest Territories and Nunavut submitted to the Prenatal La...


Lands, Lakes and Livelihoods: women’s subsistence fishing in Paulatuk, NT
Principal Investigator: Todd, Zoe SC
Licensed Year(s): 2012 2011
Summary: The researcher will study how people fish in Paulatuk today, how people talk about fishing and how fishing was practiced and characterised in the past. The researcher’s intent is to gain insight into contemporary relationships between people and the environment and inform anthropological discourse on women’s harvesting activity in arctic Canada. This project involves anthropological fieldwork,...


Brightening Our Home Fire: Women and Wellness Project Program Report
Principal Investigator: Badry, Dorothy E
Licensed Year(s): 2011
Summary: This project is a starting place with hopes of developing a proposal for a multi-year, multi-site study to develop and evaluate a culturally-based, trauma-informed, Aboriginal Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) prevention model, using a research process that is participatory, community-based, and decolonizing. The researchers wish to ensure that this FASD prevention model involves and addr...


The Genographic Project: Anthropological Genetic Analyses of Indigenous Human Populations of North America
Principal Investigator: Schurr, Theodore G
Licensed Year(s): 2011 2010 2009
Summary: In this project, the ancestry and history of the Aboriginal populations of the NWT will be explored through the analysis of genetic diversity in these communities. Through this DNA analysis, the origin and diversity of these aboriginal people will be investigated and their relationship to other aboriginal peoples of Canada and Alaska will be assessed. Overall, this approach will generate new insi...


Arctic Intergenerational Perspectives on the Future
Principal Investigator: Parlee, Brenda L
Licensed Year(s): 2010
Summary: The aim of the project is to develop and administer an instrument to gather both quantitative and qualitative data linking health and environmental change (caribou population decline) in northern Aboriginal communities. The research aims to provide outputs of relevance to the communities and partner organizations including policy relevant outputs on the effects of caribou population change on the ...


Climate change and food security among at-risk population in regional Inuit centres
Principal Investigator: Chatwood, Susan
Licensed Year(s): 2010
Summary: This research will document and describe the nature of food insecurity of at-risk populations in Inuvik using photo voice to facilitate semi-structured interviews and focus groups. The characteristics (i.e. age, sex, employment history, length in community, health status, family characteristics, etc) will be documented. The role of store foods, traditional foods, food networking and food sharing ...


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