NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Wachowich, Nancy
Licensed Year(s): 1992 1991
Summary: The Researcher will investigate patterns of crime in Arctic communities and the role the Northern Justice system plays in defining and managing these crimes. The research will be focused primarily on incidents involving Inuit women. Methodology will include reading public documents, interviewing people working in the system, tracing current cases in court, conversing with people withi...

Principal Investigator: Driscoll, Bernadette T.
Licensed Year(s): 1992 1991 1990
Summary: The Researcher will examine indigenous clothing design and clothing change in the Kitikmeot region. She will record the historical change from fur to fabric clothing as well as investigate the continuing importance of fur clothing to hunters and detail the social and economic significance of maintaining sewing skills within Inuit families....

Principal Investigator: Bielawski, Ellen
Licensed Year(s): 1991
Summary: The Researcher will compare Arctic Science and Inuit Knowledge by conducting an ethnography of Arctic science and a study of how Inuit constructed knowledge when relocated to the High Arctic from Arctic Quebec....

Principal Investigator: Muller-Wille, Ludger
Licensed Year(s): 1991 1990 1989
Summary: The Researcher and team will continue to collect, document, establish and preserve a complete record of all known Inuit geographical names systematically from oral tradition and other existing sources in all Inuit communities throughout the Keewatin District....

Principal Investigator: Le Goff, Philippe
Licensed Year(s): 1991
Summary: The Researcher will observe Inuit musical history, both traditional and that which has been influenced by southern music and adapted in an Inuit way....

Principal Investigator: Qulaut, George
Licensed Year(s): 1991
Summary: In-depth audiotaped interviews are conducted with selected Iglulingmiut elders on a wide range of topics including: life-histories, wildlife biology, hunting techniques, sewing methods, skin reparation, diet, education, philosophy, astronomy, climatology, treatment of illness and folk-lore. The tapes are transcribed, translated, word-processed and edited....

Principal Investigator: Daviss-Putt, Betty-Anne
Licensed Year(s): 1991
Summary: The Researcher and her associate will continue to collect and document traditional Inuit childbirth practices and will distribute their findings to Inuit communities....

Principal Investigator: Egan, Christine
Licensed Year(s): 1990
Summary: Ms. Egan will continue work begun in 1988. She will interview individuals regarding frequency and severity of perceived health problems and the frequency with which health care was sought during the period of June to August 1990....

Principal Investigator: Boyd, Leslie
Licensed Year(s): 1990
Summary: The Researcher, assisted by a local interpreter will interview individuals and small groups in the community about the Kingnait Cultural Society and its plans to construct a Cultural Centre in Cape Dorset....

Principal Investigator: Putt, Betty-Anne
Licensed Year(s): 1990
Summary: This project will conbine analysis of interview data, review of available literature and the personal accounts of the elders. The elders will be asked to verbally respond to a series of open questions aimed at gathering data to meet the objectives of the research of traditional Inuit practices related to pregnancy and childbirth....