Regions: Inuvialuit Settlement Region, Gwich'in Settlement Area, Sahtu Settlement Area, Dehcho Region, North Slave Region, South Slave Region, Qikiqtaaluk Region
| Principal Investigator: | Bowen, Jennifer Elizabeth (1) |
| Licence Number: | 16840 |
| Organization: | University of Victoria |
| Licensed Year(s): |
2021
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| Issued: | Jun 03, 2021 |
Objective(s): To explore where and how the daggers are exhibited in museums and cultural centres in the Yukon and the Northwest Territories.
Project Description: 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 centres, the Principal Investigator (PI) will examine how the exhibition spaces represent Northern Athapaskan groups and explore how Indigenous communities are included in the design process in the North. Then compare these exhibition sites with representations of the dagger and Northern Athapaskan tribes in southern museum collections and archives in Canada and elsewhere. The purpose of this research is to focus on significant changes to Northern Athapaskan exhibition design practices in Northern Canada. The PI will base most of my analysis on photographs and interviews with Indigenous curators/coordinators or managers of exhibition spaces to discuss how they organize and present Northern Athapaskan people and history in exhibition design in the north. Covid-19 provides challenges to accessing the spaces in person. The PI would like to find volunteers or staff of facilities to provide photos of exhibitions. The PI is interested in speaking to facility staff and independent Indigenous designers who were part of or coordinated the exhibition space. These conversations can be done over the phone or through Zoom. The PI has created an introduction letter to the research and herself as the researcher. The PI will be sending this letter to select communities in the NWT and will follow up with phone calls to communities. The fieldwork for this study will be conducted from June 4, 2021 to December 31, 2021.
