NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Park, Linda K.
Licensed Year(s): 1993 1992
Summary: Public museums with anthropological mandates are increasingly being accused of racism, sexism, cultural elitism, and failing to represent wider community interests. Groups such as First Nation peoples are expressing their displeasure with the way in which museums are managing their cultural heritage, and they are calling for a new relationship between themselves and museums. This research will t...

Principal Investigator: Ryan, Joan
Licensed Year(s): 1993 1992
Summary: No baseline information has been systematically collected for the Dene about traditional use of plants and animal parts used for healing. There are still several Dogrib elders who hold and use this information and the Dene are eager to have this knowledge documented so so that they can teach it to young people....

Principal Investigator: Marcus, Alan R.
Licensed Year(s): 1991
Summary: The Researcher will investige tow case studies: the 1953-55 relocation from Inukjuak, Quebec to Resolute Bay and Grise Fiord and the 1957-58 resettlement from Ennadai Lake to North Henik Lake and Eskimo Point. Using several methods, the research will integrate an understanding to the political processes involved at the time with the long-term social and economic effects of the resettlements on Inu...

Principal Investigator: Pocklington, Sarah
Licensed Year(s): 1990
Summary: The Researcher will conduct interviews and library studies to study the leadership styles of Dene living in the Northwest Territories....

Principal Investigator: Driedger, Linda C.
Licensed Year(s): 1988
Summary: Linda Driedger will be interviewing residents to see how kinship (family relations) and the community social organization are interwoven....

Principal Investigator: Sharp, H.S.
Licensed Year(s): 1975
Summary: Research on kinship and true symbolic systems of the Chipewyan....