6 record(s) found in the location "Inuvialuit Settlement Region" (multi-year projects are grouped):
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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...


Pitquhiraluavut Puiglimiatavut (We will not forget our ways): Bringing home photogrpahs 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 & beliefs) through viewing and visiting "things that talk" (historical photographs and objects) currently in the British Museum in London England. This is a continuation of the Ulukhaktok Literacies Project, where the researchers...


Landscapes of Power: Native Peoples, National Parks, and the Making of a Modern Wilderness in Northern Canada and Alaska, 1940-2000
Principal Investigator: Martin, Brad
Licensed Year(s): 2007 2004
Summary: The main objective of this historical research project is to examine how and why relations between indigenous groups and national park administrators in northern Canada and Alaska changed in the second half of the twentieth century. A secondary objective is to write a general history of national park establishment and management in these regions. The researcher will travel to and from the resea...


Researching Forms of Aboriginal Literacy in a Northern (NWT) Community
Principal Investigator: Chambers, Cynthia
Licensed Year(s): 2006 2005 2004
Summary: As part of developing an understanding of northern aboriginal ways of learning, teaching and communicating, this study aims to examine the traditional (pre-contact), historical (post-contact) and contemporary forms of literacy in the Inuinnaqtun-speaking community of Holman. It is also hoped that this study will generate new knowledge on locally-based and culturally-appropriate research methods fo...


Tuktoyaktuk Place Names Project
Principal Investigator: Hart, Elisa J.
Licensed Year(s): 2005 2004 2003
Summary: The objective of this final work on the Tuktoyaktuk Place Names Project is to review the draft of the book that reports the results of this project.The proposed benefits for completing the book on place names and stories about the land are: to provide educational material on Inuvialuit culture, history and geography for use in local schools, and to provide a book which can be enjoyed by the peopl...


Tuktoyaktuk Traditional Knowledge Project
Principal Investigator: Hart, Elisa J.
Licensed Year(s): 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991
Summary: The researchers will complete the last steps of a research project that began in 1991. This will include reading over compiled information with elders for verification; flying along the coastline with elders to help verify locations of places that there is some confusion over and record their coordinates with a GPS; and setting down at sites that elders suggest to talk a bit more about the histor...


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