Regions: South Slave Region
Tags: social sciences, agreement negotiation, knowledge transfer, elders, youth, history, socio-cultural, social impact, personal experience, government involvement, community resilience, cross-cultural, institutional development, social evolution
| Principal Investigator: | Ruttan, Lia (6) |
| Licence Number: | 13366 |
| Organization: | University of Alberta |
| Licensed Year(s): |
2003
2002
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| Issued: | Jul 23, 2002 |
| Project Team: | Self |
Objective(s): This project will explore and compare the views of community history held by historical, official and anthropological accounts with the experiences of community elders in this mixed community of Chipewyan, Cree, Metis, and non-aboriginal residents. Understanding of these perspectives and how they continue to affect the workings of current community institutions is an essential starting point to communication about the cooperative and equitable delivery of these programs. The researcher intends to complete an analysis, not only of western approaches to this history but, one based in the lives of the people as they experienced the period of treaty, missions, government bureaucracy, assimilative approaches to education, dependence on social programs and on to the more current impact of cultural renewal and settlement of land claims. Through a broader based understanding of these experiences and how they affect the community, the ground level issues impacting current community institutions will become clearer, providing a framework to begin more responsive community planning. Further, a more integrated approach to community history should offer a renewed, more relevant account that can can be made available to the community and especially to its young people.
