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Development in the Coppermine River basin and Cumulative Effects Monitoring
Principal Investigator: Whitney, Candace
Licensed Year(s): 2000
Summary: The Coppermine River basin has significant mineral resources including diamonds as well as base and precious metals. In the early 1990s, the Slave Geological Province experienced a dramatic increase in mining activity when diamonds were discovered in the middle of the West Kitikmeot/Slave area at Lac de Gras. Northern ecological systems are particularly at risk to impacts of mining and other land...


Women and Empowerment in Northern Canada and India: A Community Based Strategy for Building an Ecological Sustainable Way of Knowing
Principal Investigator: Brown, Rai
Licensed Year(s): 2000
Summary: This project will study the impact of education of women's status in Northern Canada and hopefully develop an ethic that re-engages culture and ecology by challenging the western notion of progress. The researcher will conduct unstructured interviews with innovative educational institutions, sustainable development organizations, and women involved in community-building projects, social justice i...


Deafness in northern Indigenous communities: Parent perspectives on supports and services
Principal Investigator: Castleden, Heather
Licensed Year(s): 1999
Summary: The study will examine the extent of availability, accessibility, quality and distribution of educational resources on deafness and level of user satisfaction, within the Aboriginal population in the North. This research is a community-based project, developed with input provided by pertinent stakeholders. A qualitative approach using critical ethnography and situated responses will be used. Data ...


Establishing key factors that enable selected Northern Metis students to succeed academically in Southern post-secondary institutions
Principal Investigator: Kurszewski, Denise
Licensed Year(s): 1999
Summary: The proposed study will hopefully disclose the positive elements of academic success among northern Metis students. Students presently attending post-secondary institutions will be selected. In-depth interviews will be conducted using the 'self-narrative' approach. The Metis Nation will use the outcome as a guide to implementing the practices in overall planning, thus empowering and strengthening...


Public sector labour organization in the Northwest Territories: 1965-1984
Principal Investigator: Powell, Chris
Licensed Year(s): 1999
Summary: The objectives of this work are to determine the nature of the relationship between the Government of the Northwest Territories (GNWT) and its employees between the years 1965-1984. Data collection will take place mainly in the Union of Northern Workers collection at the NWT archives, particularly for the period 1967-84 to examine to relationship between the state and its employees, particularly i...


Integrating culture into nursing practice: A fourth generation perspective
Principal Investigator: Moffitt, Pertice M
Licensed Year(s): 1999
Summary: The research methodology is fourth generation evaluation. It is based on the belief that there are multiple realities socially constructed through an individual's experiences and believed to be true when consensus is reached amongst a group of people. It is a methodology where the findings are created by the inquiry process. This process compares and contrasts emerging constructions and then creat...


Tobacco Use by Youth in the Northwest Territories
Principal Investigator: Tremblay, Rick
Licensed Year(s): 1999
Summary: A similar questionnaire given in 1982, 1987 and 1993 will be used for this tobacco use survey for 1998/99. The information obtained from the data will provide a snap shot of tobacco use by students between grades 4 and 12 for 1998/99. The data will be compared with previous studies to see if there was a change in the smoking habits of students. The data collected will help the Health Promotion s...


The History of the Federal Government of Canada's Residential School System for the Inuit 1955-1970.
Principal Investigator: King, David
Licensed Year(s): 1998 1997
Summary: Plan to interview approximately 8 people in Yellowknife who went to these schools. Interviews will be kept confidential. My research will be explained in detail and permission obtained from individuals who are being asked to provide their input. The ACUNS code of ethics for research in the north will be employed. All informants will be shown any information given and asked to approve its use. ...


Connecting the North: Northern Aboriginal Peoples Advocate for a Northern Information Highway
Principal Investigator: Matiation, Nicole
Licensed Year(s): 1998
Summary: Examination of "Connecting the North" symposium held in 1994, as a watershed event within the historical continuum of First Peoples' activism in communications technology and content in Canada's North. The researcher will trace the role of this symposium in shaping stakeholders' and government discourse relative to policy issues. Also will be looking at actual outcomes such as the creation of Ardi...


Community Wellness in the Northwest Territories: Indicators and Social Policy
Principal Investigator: Gerein, H.J.
Licensed Year(s): 1997
Summary: The purpose of this study is to draft, validate, and test a pilot instrument that results in an index of wellness or overall condition of each community in the Northwest Territories. This measurement and index of community condition are proposed as a new language to northern planning and policy setting. Using Canadian population and urban area performance levels and existing Government of the Nor...


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