76 record(s) found in the location "Sahtu Settlement Area" (multi-year projects are grouped):
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Dene Béré (Country Foods) Campaign
Principal Investigator: Andrew, Leon
Licensed Year(s): 2024 2023 2022
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5402. The aim of this project is to support adaptation of Dene be´re´ (Dene be´re´) systems to climate change through a harvesting and sharing program that includes hunters, women and youth. To do so, the research team propose to increase the communication of knowledge on Dene be´re´ and to build a community harvesting pilo...


Indigenous Knowledge of Berries in the Northwest Territories
Principal Investigator: Singer, Claire L
Licensed Year(s): 2024 2023 2022
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5495. The goal of this project is to complete a territory-wide Indigenous knowledge study to determine what we know about berries, describe any changes that are being seen in berries, identify potential causes of these changes, and outline what further information needs to be collected. The completion of this work will resu...


Sahtu Dene and Metis Community Engagement in the Closure and Reclamation of the Norman Wells Oilfield
Principal Investigator: King, Ann
Licensed Year(s): 2022
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5250. This projects aims and objectives are to examine the processes of engagement and roles of Sahtu Dene and Metis knowledge and perspectives for their traditional territory in the Norman Wells Oilfield Reclamation and Closure. The Principal Investigator (PI) will: 1) review how Indigenous peoples living in northern Canad...


A Century of Petroleum Extraction at Tłegǫ́hłı̨ (Norman Wells): Indigenous Knowledge for Indigenous Guardianship
Principal Investigator: Andrew, Leon
Licensed Year(s): 2024 2023 2022
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5049. This project will explore Dene and Me´tis knowledge about the cumulative impacts (CI) of a century of petroleum operations at Norman Wells and downstream, supporting meaningful Indigenous contributions to decisions about closure and reclamation, strengthening Indigenous stewardship roles, and providing education and t...


Sahtú Benígodi: Traditional Knowledge of Great Bear Lake and its Watershed
Principal Investigator: Spring, Andrew
Licensed Year(s): 2021 2019 2018
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.4540. The purpose of this project is to build a comprehensive database of Traditional Knowledge of the Great Bear Lake and its watershed to form an environmental baseline for the cumulative impacts of climate change and development. By compiling the rich history and stories from existing literature, studies and other initia...


Tracking Change... Local and Traditional Knowledge in Watershed Governance
Principal Investigator: Parlee, Brenda L
Licensed Year(s): 2019 2019 2019 2017 2016
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.4369. Tracking Change: Local and Traditional Knowledge in Watershed Governance is a six-year research program funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and led by the University of Alberta, Mackenzie River Basin Board, and the Government of the Northwest Territories in collaboration with many other value...


On-the-Land monitoring, youth engagement, and knowledge sharing of environmental change
Principal Investigator: Spring, Andrew
Licensed Year(s): 2019
Summary: Research will be conducted through shared on-the-land experiences with researchers and community members as well as focus groups within the communities and/or on-the-land. This includes interactive experiences in traditional knowledge as it arises from “way of life” practices on-the-land, consideration of knowledge and its communication at different scales and from different sources, and science-b...


Déline Gonáoweré Gogodí: Conversing with Community, Land, and Creator
Principal Investigator: Saxon, Leslie A.
Licensed Year(s): 2019
Summary: The goals of language revitalization can be met through narrative revitalization, an approach to language study using the creative, mental, and spiritual dimensions of stories to keep us learning. By studying stories, the research team create memorable and continually growing connections to both language and place. This project will accomplish two overall goals: 1) to connect place and people soci...


Sahtú Dene and Yellowknives Dene Astronomy and Sky-Related Knowledge
Principal Investigator: Holton, Gary
Licensed Year(s): 2019 2018
Summary: The research objective is to document Sahtú Dene and Yellowknives Dene astronomy and sky-related knowledge as well as other supporting linguistic and cultural knowledge that may help contextualize the study. Results will appear in the researcher’s Ph.D. dissertation on Northern Dene astronomy and may be published in a book on the same topic at a later date. The research team will also produce educ...


Culturally Appropriate Search and Rescue (SAR) Prevention and Survival Training in the Sahtú Region, Northwest Territories: An On-the-Land Program
Principal Investigator: Giles, Audrey R.
Licensed Year(s): 2018
Summary: The research question is "how can on-the-land programming strengthen Sahtu residents’ ability to avoid the need for search and rescue (SAR) and their chances of survival if SAR is needed?" The main objectives of this project are five-fold: i) to provide youth with the opportunity to experience life on-the-land in a safe and controlled environment; ii) to share traditional knowledge from elder...


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