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Healing Cultural Soul Wounds within the Settler-Indigenous Relationship: Learning from Indigenous Knowledge Holders
Principal Investigator: McPhail, Danielle Sarah
Licensed Year(s): 2023
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5195. The specific gap within the current settler-Indigenous relationship is that if non-Indigenous people continue to fear the discomfort that a decolonizing approach can bring, the effects of colonization will stay the same, albeit creating even more racial tensions within the settler-Indigenous relationship. It is also t...


Water and Social Well-being in the Northwest Territories
Principal Investigator: Carter, Blair
Licensed Year(s): 2013
Summary: Four objectives guide this research: 1) to gain an understanding of the current water resource conditions (e.g., quality and quantity) and contextual circumstances (e.g., community culture, history, traditions) impacting local water use in the Deh Cho Region of the NWT; 2) to use a social well-being lens to unpack values that people associate with water resources in the Region; 3) to translate the...


Global Citizens in the Arctic: Learning to live in the NWT, Yukon and Nunavut
Principal Investigator: Parlee, Brenda L
Licensed Year(s): 2013
Summary: The main objective of this research is to explore adaptation to the resource-based northern economy by investigating how new residents (international immigrants) settle, live and use their local and global social networks to make a living within this economy. Narrative interviews and focus group conversations will be carried out with a cross section of new permanent residents and citizens from...


Dogrib Language Documentation and Revitalization in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories
Principal Investigator: Jaker, Alessandro M
Licensed Year(s): 2014 2013 2012 2009 2008 2007 2005
Summary: The goal of this research is to produce an intermediate-level Dogrib language reader, for young people who have some basic knowledge of the language but are still struggling with more difficult or complex forms. The stories themselves will focus on local legends, and local history of the Yellowknives Dene. Thus, the goals are both to increase young people's competence in Dogrib, and make traditi...


The Importance of Collective Identity Clarity
Principal Investigator: Usborne, Esther
Licensed Year(s): 2007
Summary: The goal of this study is to explore the theory of cultural identity in a questionnaire for Aboriginal people in Dettah, N'Dilo and Yellowknife. The hope is to obtain a clear picture of what is going on in the minds of participants and about the struggle of Aboriginal people. This can be used to develop a different approach to improving the living conditions of First Nation people, based on the pr...


Aboriginal people and tourism in northern Canada
Principal Investigator: Hinch, Tom
Licensed Year(s): 1993
Summary: The purpose of this study is to explore the involvement of aboriginal people in Canada's northern tourism economy along with the impacts and issues associated with this involvement. Interviews with the NWT Department of Economic Development and Tourism, various tourism associations, individual tourism operators and aboriginal organizations will be conducted. The study will focus on the socio-cul...


The Determination of Specific Allele Frequencies in the Inuit Population
Principal Investigator: Kirby, Lorne T.
Licensed Year(s): 1991
Summary: DNA (hereditary material) will be isolated from blood cells normally thrown away after plasma tests at Stanton Yellowknife Hospital. The names will be unknown. Results will be added to an existing data bank which includes DNA information on Inuit, Caucasian, Oriental and other cultural groups. This information can be used to study events such as the migration of Inuit or to compare the evolution o...


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