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Contested Discourses: Do soòłįį satsò dekwoo beh
Principal Investigator: Bowen, Jennifer Elizabeth
Licensed Year(s): 2021
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.4855. This research project will explore where and how the daggers are exhibited in museums and cultural centres in the Yukon and the Northwest Territories. From the present understanding, there are no daggers in Northern Athapaskan cultural centres or community exhibits in the North. In local museums and emerging cultural ...


Exploring Repatriation and its Effects
Principal Investigator: Meloche, Chelsea H
Licensed Year(s): 2019
Summary: The dissertation project seeks to explore the effects of repatriation from the perspective of receiving communities and, more generally, consider the roles of repatriation for reconciliation efforts in Canada. I have four main objectives for this project: 1) to understand how the meaning and processes of repatriation change across different jurisdictions; 2) to identify any social, cultural, econo...


A Path to Greater Cultural Safety in NWT Physician Practice: Improving Patient-Physician Interaction in the Northwest Territories
Principal Investigator: Tordiff, Robert
Licensed Year(s): 2016
Summary: The objectives of this research project are to: 1) identify components of existing frameworks that might be suitable for a NWT cultural competency framework; 2) to measure the impact of frameworks on physician perception of patients; and, 3) to provide a foundation from which to begin design of a cultural competency framework and training program for health and social service care providers. Th...


Lifestyle Prescriptions and Supports to Reduce the Risk of Diabetes in Rural and Remote Communities
Principal Investigator: Petrella, Robert J.
Licensed Year(s): 2016 2015
Summary: The objectives of this research project are: 1) to improve the health of participants (weight, BMI, fitness score, step counts, exercise frequency and duration, consumption of a healthy diet (fruits and vegetables, water, healthy breakfast), and health-related quality of life) through an evidence-based individualized lifestyle prescription, goal setting, and in-person/technology-supported coachin...


Cultural Safety of Physical Activity Programming for Aboriginal Elders
Principal Investigator: Giles, Audrey R.
Licensed Year(s): 2013
Summary: This project seeks to understand the impact of the Elders in Motion (EIM) program, which is a physical activity program developed by the Northwest Territories Recreation and Parks Association (NWTRPA), on past and current participants. It also seeks to understand the challenges that program facilitators and communities have faced in regards to implementing the program and how they have dealt with ...


Building Economic and Social Prosperity: Connecting a Northern University Vision Through Dechinta Bush University
Principal Investigator: Coulthard, Glen
Licensed Year(s): 2013
Summary: The objectives of this research project are to: 1) document, evaluate and support the development of Dechinta Bush University Centre for Research and Learning; Including: A. governance practices, institutional structures and partnerships, B. teaching quality, C. the integration of land-based learning with university programming, D. students' personal and academic development and success, ...


Conflicting Paradigms of Elder-care in the NWT, with Particular Reference to Special-needs Housing of the Elderly.
Principal Investigator: Webster, Andrew
Licensed Year(s): 1992
Summary: The 1992 research is the final phase of data collection for the 3-year study of elder-care in the NWT. The purpose of the research is to produce a report discussing the potential social impacts of Euro-Canadian elder-care strategies on Aboriginal social structure in the NWT....


The Tutelage of Crime: Dependency and Deviance Iqaluit, Northwest Territories
Principal Investigator: Patenaude, Allan L.
Licensed Year(s): 1993 1992 1991 1990
Summary: Ongoing since 1989 this project examines the relationships and results of the imposition of Euro-Canadian social and criminal justice systems upon the aboriginal peoples of Iqaluit and how Inuit and others have adapted to those imposed systems over time....


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