NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Jaker, Alessandro M
Licensed Year(s): 2014 2013 2012 2009 2008 2007 2005
Summary: This project will produce two published materials, in Dogrib and Chipewyan: an intermediate-level reader, and a verb dictionary. The reader will contain elders' stories on topics from Dene Kede, with a focus on animals: the research team would like to include at least two short stories on each animal in both languages. The verb dictionary will list at least 200 verbs in each language, with the...

Principal Investigator: Hall, Karen
Licensed Year(s): 2012
Summary: The objective of this research is to understand and identify factors that have influenced certain Northerner’s positive contributions to their communities. This research specifically aims to identify the various social and learning environments of northerner’s that have led to their successes within the community. Data will be collected through a qualitative approach, using one-on-one or teleph...

Principal Investigator: Sandlos, John K
Licensed Year(s): 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009
Summary: The research team will work closely with members of four NWT communities to identify the historical and continued impacts of abandoned mines adjacent to their communities. The research team will ask how mineral development impacted the social life, economic prospects and local environments of Northern communities throughout the twentieth century, considering carefully the connections between socia...

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,...

Principal Investigator: Parker, Aliana
Licensed Year(s): 2011
Summary: The research objective is to understand the connection between Indigenous languages and the land, and to explore how that connection is represented in websites used for Indigenous language education. The central research question is: What is the significance of Indigenous perspectives of land for Indigenous language revitalization efforts? The connection between language and land will be the main ...

Principal Investigator: Jacobsen, Petter F
Licensed Year(s): 2010 2009
Summary: This licence is being issued for the scientific research application No.1294. The research is part of the larger research project on the correlation between increased forest fires and decreasing caribou population in the Northwest Territories. The intent is to record TEK concerning environments rebounding from forest fires, the correlation between these areas and the caribou population,...

Principal Investigator: Hall, Karen
Licensed Year(s): 2009
Summary: The goal of this research is to help Yellowknife Health and Social Services Authority become a leader and model for the integration of culturally safe health care practices. This study also serves to increase health care workers' sensitivity to many of the cultural issues that are specific to the Aboriginal populations living in Yellowknife, thus raising awareness of the importance of fostering an...

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...

Principal Investigator: Schryer, Rick P.
Licensed Year(s): 2009 2008
Summary: This license has been issued for the scientific research application #721. The objective of the research is to conduct TK and TLU studies in Behchoko, Whati, Gameti, Wekweeti, and Yellowknife with representatives of the Dogrib and Métis. The studies will be part of obtaining permits to operate a mine at the NICO Project location. Study participants will be interviewed either individually or...

Principal Investigator: Prno, Jason
Licensed Year(s): 2007 2006
Summary: Over the past decade a number of Impact and Benefit Agreements (IBAs) have been established between mining firms and aboriginal communities in the Northwest Territories. Notwithstanding their increasing use and significance, the phenomenon of IBAs remains largely unrecognized and poorly understood. Most critically, no systematic research has been undertaken to assess whether these agreements are w...