10 record(s) found in the location "South Slave Region" (multi-year projects are grouped):
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Examining how research knowledge is shared in the Slave River Delta
Principal Investigator: Steelman, Toddi
Licensed Year(s): 2016
Summary: The overall purpose of this project, based on direction from the Slave River Delta Partnership (SRDP), is to explore how water research and monitoring information is shared within the communities of Fort Resolution and Fort Smith and identify community-preferred best practices for knowledge sharing. There are four main objectives: 1) look at the different ways information is currently being s...


Picturing the Thelon River: Restor(y)ing Denesoline relations en route to the headwaters
Principal Investigator: Grimwood, Bryan S.R.
Licensed Year(s): 2016 2015 2014
Summary: The purpose of this research is to work collaboratively with the Lutsel K’e Dene First Nation to reveal and restore Denesoline relationships to the Thelon River watershed. The study involves three objectives: 1) to foster and celebrate Denesoline cultural livelihoods by recording, experiencing, and exchanging local and traditional knowledge associated with the Thelon; 2) to synthesize, analyze, an...


Indigenous Women, Ways of Knowing and Aesthetic of Beadwork
Principal Investigator: Edge, Lois E.
Licensed Year(s): 2009 2008 2007
Summary: Objectives of this research include (a) share experience as Visiting Researcher to the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, to study a pair of moccasins made by the researcher’s grandmother, Mrs. Joanne Edge, at her home in Fort Smith, Northwest Territories in 1942 (completed); (b) facilitate a beading circle with urban Aboriginal women in Edmonton, Alberta to document the contribution of bea...


The Rangifer Anatomy Project: Linking community and scientific approaches to caribou structure and function
Principal Investigator: Brook, Ryan K
Licensed Year(s): 2009
Summary: The proposed research will develop and evaluate innovative tools and processes to help better understand caribou anatomy and facilitate caribou health. Specific objectives of this project are to: 1. Engage communities in the planning, data collection, interpretation, and integration of traditional knowledge into an anatomical atlas of caribou as a tool to facilitate monitoring the health of t...


Localization of Social Work in Northern Canada
Principal Investigator: Brownlee, Keith
Licensed Year(s): 2005
Summary: For this research project, social work practitioners in northern and remote communities will be asked to examine distinctions between what theory and methods are appropriate for practice and which are not. This research will examine localization of knowledge which includes consideration of culture, community and values in adapting appropriate practices. Research will be conducted in five commu...


Integrating Elders Experience of Past, Present, and Future: Implications for Community Institutions
Principal Investigator: Ruttan, Lia
Licensed Year(s): 2003 2002
Summary: This project will explore and compare the views of community history held by historical, official and anthropological accounts with the experiences of community elders in this mixed community of Chipewyan, Cree, Metis, and non-aboriginal residents. Under...


The Integration of Traditional Knowledge with the Management of Canadian Heritage Rivers: The Case of Thelon River
Principal Investigator: Ellis, Stephen
Licensed Year(s): 2000
Summary: The overall goal of this study is to lay the foundation for the development of a successful and effective integration of traditional knowledge with natural area management systems using the case study of the Thelon Canadian Heritage River as an example. This research will take place over 2 four month periods where the researcher will live in the community and conduct interviews with consenting in...


Converging Ecological Currents: A First Nations Ecovisitor Strategy.
Principal Investigator: Beddoes, Colin
Licensed Year(s): 2000 1999
Summary: The objective of this study is to carry out a strategic analysis of the opportunities and constraints facing the Dene in their implementation of eco-cultural tourism. Transportation to and on site will be by automobile. Data collection will be carried out while working under the direction of planning staff at the Dene Cultural Institute (DCI). Data collection will involve non-structured intervi...


Ideas of the Canadian North
Principal Investigator: Morrow, Jennifer
Licensed Year(s): 1995
Summary: Want to interview people to discuss their ideas of "North" and of the possibility and consequences of integrating indigenous and western knowledge systems. Also conducting some archival research in the Yellowknife library....


Licence #2790
Principal Investigator: Duncan, Kate C.
Licensed Year(s): 1982
Summary: To interview active beadworkers who can provide information ont he traditional styles of Athapaskan beadwork as well as an exchange of knowledge between traditional styles....


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