NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Fitzhugh, William
Licensed Year(s): 1993 1992 1991 1990
Summary: The 1992 season will continue excavations at historic period Inuit sites occupied at the time of the Frobisher voyages and later, to determine the amount and kinds of contacts made with the Frobisher group and its impact on Inuit culture change. Studies will also be made of prehistory Inuit sites of the Pre-Dorset and Dorset cultures. Studies will determine the impact of coastal subsidence that ...

Principal Investigator: Stenton, Douglas R.
Licensed Year(s): 1992 1991
Summary: The researchers will engage in field training for northern post-secondary students enrolled in Arctic College's Environmental Technology Program. This will provide northern students and other interested individuals opportunities to become actively involved in the investigation of eastern Arctic Inuit culture through a community-based project....

Principal Investigator: D'Anglure, Bernard Saladin
Licensed Year(s): 1992
Summary: The research will involve the study of Inuit leaders and political development. How one became a leader among the Inuit, traditionally and in the present time using factors such as kinship, leadership, personal performance, authority and religious power will be be investigated....

Principal Investigator: Whittles, Martin J.
Licensed Year(s): 1992
Summary: The Researcher will continue an ethnographic study of the people and history of Sachs Harbour. An investigation of the local economic systems and land use patterns will be undertaken, the hamlet political system and its interaction with other levels of government will be documented and Inuit history on Banksland will be explored. The focus will be on the locals interpretations of themselves and t...

Principal Investigator: Segalou, Patrice
Licensed Year(s): 1992
Summary: The Researcher will conduct an anthropological study and will observe Inuit behavior, specifically, non-verbal communication. Observation and analysis will be conducted during traditional and cultural events as well as current events during a six month residence in the Town of Iqaluit....

Principal Investigator: Marcus, Alan R.
Licensed Year(s): 1991
Summary: The Researcher will investige tow case studies: the 1953-55 relocation from Inukjuak, Quebec to Resolute Bay and Grise Fiord and the 1957-58 resettlement from Ennadai Lake to North Henik Lake and Eskimo Point. Using several methods, the research will integrate an understanding to the political processes involved at the time with the long-term social and economic effects of the resettlements on Inu...

Principal Investigator: Collignon, Beatrice M.
Licensed Year(s): 1998 1992 1991
Summary: The Researcher will conduct a study to investigate Inuit geography, their geographical thoughts about the land and their perception of space and the way they organize their knowledge of the land into an general explanation of the world around them. A place name survey will be carried out with the elders of each community. Younger adults will be asked to give the names they know to understand how ...

Principal Investigator: Blaisel, Xavier
Licensed Year(s): 1991
Summary: The Researcher will study customary rituals from Inuit. Specific work will focus on understanding historic Inuit roles and behaviors surrounding the birth of children with the co-operation of the Iqaluit Elders Society....

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....