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Canadian Arctic Sovereignty - A Northern Perspective
Principal Investigator: McMahon, Kevin
Licensed Year(s): 1987
Summary: To visit six N.W.T. communities and to interview individuals who are interested in commenting on "Canadian Arctic Sovereignty" as a historical concern and a current issue. A primary focus will be to obtain comments from community elders regarding their attitudes and experiences on this issue....


A Family Centered Maternity Care Project
Principal Investigator: Paulette, Lesley
Licensed Year(s): 1987
Summary: Phase 1 - to provide to the membership of the Native Women's Association an overview of the current status of maternity care in the NWT, including a preliminary needs assessment based on interviews with native women elders and various health care providers. Areas for further research will be identified as well as proposals for subsequent initiatives to promote maternal and infant health and famil...


Transcultural Study on Suicide among Native Peoples of Canada, Australia and New Zeland
Principal Investigator: Urschel, John
Licensed Year(s): 1987
Summary: To obtain information on the prevalence of suicide for the year 1985 by reviewing charts located in the NWT Chief Coroner's Office; examine some of teh social and psychological factors related to suicide by interviewing and making contact with native organizations and other interested agencies, in order to integrate this information with the demographic material....


Inuktitut: Language Change
Principal Investigator: Harnum, Betty
Licensed Year(s): 1987
Summary: To complete a study of Inuktitut in the Eastern Arctic and Keewatin with respect to how the language is currently changing. Interviews will be conducted with the informed consent of various community agencies and individuals regarding the development of new words which explains new items and ideas as well as changes in the sounds and sentence structure. Influences from other languages will be ex...


NWT Child Care Survey
Principal Investigator: Lavoie, Susan
Licensed Year(s): 1987
Summary: 1. To develop and implement a print survey to asses child care needs within all NWT communities; 2. To put together a final report and action plan based on results of survey from communities, in consultation with NWT Child Care Association Board....


Relations Between existing enviromental processes and evolving land use planning initiatives in the Yukon and the Northwest Territories.
Principal Investigator: Gibson, Dr. R.F. Keith, obert. B.
Licensed Year(s): 1987
Summary: Through the cooperation and participation of the agencies, groups and individuals involved in the environmental review and assessment process, the study will attempt to find practical means of improving overall effectiveness, effeciency and fairness of planning and project assessment in the territorial north. To assess by case study and discussion with agencies involved, what processes work well ...


Fur Harvesting in Tuktoyaktuk, 1977-1987: an Informal Economy Activity on the Decline?
Principal Investigator: Sloggett, Joel
Licensed Year(s): 1987
Summary: To assess fur harvesting rates and participation in the community of Tuktoyaktuk over the last 10 years through collaboration with and by reviewing existing data collected by such agencies as GNWT Renewable Resources, Inuvialuit Game Council and the Tuktoyaktuk Hunters and Trappers Association; and by conducting household interviews with the approval and in consultation with the Tuktoyaktuk Hamlet...


Haemophilus Influenzae type B Meningitis Control Project in the Northwest Territories.
Principal Investigator: Barreto, Luis
Licensed Year(s): 1987
Summary: A preliminary study will be undertaken to confirm the safety and the immunogenicity of the Connaught conjugate vaccine for native populations of the NWT (Phase I). This will be determined by the frequency and severity of adverse responses to three doses of the vaccine by a sample of infants 2-3 months of age drawn from Inuit and Dene populations. Parental consent will be obtained for all those in...


An Examination of Mitigation and Compensation inthe Environmental Process: Workshop Proceedings and Eight Case Studies
Principal Investigator: Scriven, David
Licensed Year(s): 1987
Summary: To complet an issue analysis of the Norman Wells Pipeline in order to clarify and further define the 7 major issues identified at the July 16/17, 1986 "Mitigation and compensation" Workshop held at the University of Ottawa. This is preliminary work to recommend a research prospectus for examination of mitigation and compensation in the Environmental Assessment process....


Treeline plant population response to postglacial climatic change in North Central Canada.
Principal Investigator: MacDonald, Glen M
Licensed Year(s): 1987
Summary: To use fossil pollen and plant macrofossils from small lakes to reconstruct the response of plant populations in the treeline zone to climatic change. Modern pollen surface samples from small lakes in the treeline zone will be collected to aoid in the interpretation of the fossil pollen samples. The study area will include the boreal forest, forest-tundra and tundra zones near Yellowknife (115 W...


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