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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...
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...
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...
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,...
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,...
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 ...
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 ...
A Case of Access: Inuvialuit Engagement with the Smithsonian’s MacFarlane Collection
Principal Investigator: Lyons, Natasha L.
Licensed Year(s): 2010 2009
Summary: This study will facilitate the interaction of Inuvialuit community members with a museum collection purchased from their forebears on the Anderson River in the mid 19th century, and will document present-day Inuvialuit knowledge about this collection. The project will also generate opportunities to build capacity amongst youth in videography and ethnographic documentation techniques. Finally, proj...
Licensed Year(s): 2010 2009
Summary: This study will facilitate the interaction of Inuvialuit community members with a museum collection purchased from their forebears on the Anderson River in the mid 19th century, and will document present-day Inuvialuit knowledge about this collection. The project will also generate opportunities to build capacity amongst youth in videography and ethnographic documentation techniques. Finally, proj...
Industrial Development and Indigenous Peoples of the Russian and Canadian North: Interaction, Losses, Acquisitions
Principal Investigator: Novikova, Natalya I.
Licensed Year(s): 2006
Summary: The major issues in the interaction of indigenous peoples and industrial corporations are the right of aboriginal peoples to natural resources, and aboriginal participation and co-management of these resources. These issues generate heated discussion on all levels of power, and acquire the character of conflict in everyday life. Lack of understanding about other parties’ intentions precludes engag...
Licensed Year(s): 2006
Summary: The major issues in the interaction of indigenous peoples and industrial corporations are the right of aboriginal peoples to natural resources, and aboriginal participation and co-management of these resources. These issues generate heated discussion on all levels of power, and acquire the character of conflict in everyday life. Lack of understanding about other parties’ intentions precludes engag...
Thick description of the change of Canada's First Nations traditions in history: Discussion of Clifford Geertz's anthropological approach based on field studies in Canada
Principal Investigator: Fremgen, Barbara A.
Licensed Year(s): 2006 2006
Summary: This doctoral study aims to explore Clifford Geertz’s approach towards understanding culture and humanity. Geertz’s methodology of “thick description” will be employed to arrive at an understanding of the issues of identity, culture and change among indigenous peoples in Canada. This year the study will focus on working with the Inuvialuit communities of Inuvik and Holman. The primary method o...
Licensed Year(s): 2006 2006
Summary: This doctoral study aims to explore Clifford Geertz’s approach towards understanding culture and humanity. Geertz’s methodology of “thick description” will be employed to arrive at an understanding of the issues of identity, culture and change among indigenous peoples in Canada. This year the study will focus on working with the Inuvialuit communities of Inuvik and Holman. The primary method o...
Stefansson's Legacy
Principal Investigator: Palsson, Gisli
Licensed Year(s): 2000
Summary: This research is a part a bigger project on the field work of the early explorer and anthropologist Vilhjalmur Stefansson. In the Inuvik, the investigator will interview Stefansson's descendants' about their relationship with him and his marriage to their grandmother. The interviews will only take place after the subjects have consented. The equipment used will include a still camera, a video ca...
Licensed Year(s): 2000
Summary: This research is a part a bigger project on the field work of the early explorer and anthropologist Vilhjalmur Stefansson. In the Inuvik, the investigator will interview Stefansson's descendants' about their relationship with him and his marriage to their grandmother. The interviews will only take place after the subjects have consented. The equipment used will include a still camera, a video ca...
Sustainable Forestry in the Gwich'in Settlement Area
Principal Investigator: Anderson, David G
Licensed Year(s): 2000 1999 1998
Summary: The aim of this project is to develop a forest management plan which is sensitive to the priorities identified by Gwich'in Elders and contemporary Gwich'in forest users. The research will involve a mixture of community and archival research, as well as workshops with elders, contemporary forest users and researchers representing the various foci will come together to use the information to derive ...
Licensed Year(s): 2000 1999 1998
Summary: The aim of this project is to develop a forest management plan which is sensitive to the priorities identified by Gwich'in Elders and contemporary Gwich'in forest users. The research will involve a mixture of community and archival research, as well as workshops with elders, contemporary forest users and researchers representing the various foci will come together to use the information to derive ...
An Analysis of the Roles, Responsibilities and Management practices in the Nortwest Territories Education System
Principal Investigator: Richardson, Denrick
Licensed Year(s): 1996
Summary: The study will follow an ethnographic or qualitative approach. An attempt will be made to interview a total of 100 people representing influential people in the communities....
Licensed Year(s): 1996
Summary: The study will follow an ethnographic or qualitative approach. An attempt will be made to interview a total of 100 people representing influential people in the communities....
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