NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Andrew, Leon
Licensed Year(s): 2022
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5053. The Todzi Ne´ne´ Plan will be created through a collaborative planning process, and will focus on developing a way forward for maintaining a healthy, self-sustaining Todzi population. A community level plan will be developed in each of the Sahtú communities with a community conservation planning approach and will be b...

Principal Investigator: O'Rourke, Michael JE
Licensed Year(s): 2019
Summary: The goals of this project involve establishing a community-directed cultural landscape management framework, capable of being updated in an iterative manner as Inuvialuit perspectives and priorities change over time, and as new information about specific locations and climate related impacts become available. The research being proposed will result in the completion of the Inuvialuit Place Names P...

Principal Investigator: Hart, Elisa J.
Licensed Year(s): 2005 2004 2003
Summary: There is little information available for local schools on traditionally used places and place names. The purpose of this project is to get more in-depth information on a list of traditionally named places that has been provided by Tuktoyaktuk elders. Th...

Principal Investigator: Cayen, Liz
Licensed Year(s): 1997
Summary: The purpose of the study is to determine the current status of distance education in the Gwich'in Settlement Area, to analyse the existing education/training needs and to make recommendations about the use of distance education methods and strategies to meet those needs. This will involve surveying people who are presently or have recently pursued education through this delivery method. Data coll...

Principal Investigator: MacDonald, John
Licensed Year(s): 1993 1991
Summary: The expedition journals kept by W.E. Parry during his visits to the Northern Foxe Basin during 1821-1823 will be organized, excerpted and annotated under approximately 100 thematic headings and sub-headings. These journals provide the earliest written records of the area. The project will emphasize Inuit ethnology but will include geography, toponymy, biology, climatology and geology....

Principal Investigator: Collignon, Beatrice M.
Licensed Year(s): 1998 1992 1991
Summary: Ms. Collignon will continue to investigate Inuit geography, geographical thoughts about the land and perception of space and the way Inuit organize their knowledge of the land into a general explanation of the world around them....

Principal Investigator: Fraser, J. Keith
Licensed Year(s): 1992
Summary: The Researcher will study the historical geography of the central part of the Kitikmeot Region. This will include investigations into the landscapes of the region and the changing relationship of man with the land, both the aboriginal inhabitants and the Europeans who followed. The emphasis of this study is on developments over the past four decades....

Principal Investigator: Rundstrom, Robert A.
Licensed Year(s): 1988
Summary: Dr. Rundstrom will be talking to people in Rankin Inlet and Eskimo Point. He wants to gather information on how Inuit travel on the land or across water without using compasses, maps, or other modern navigational equipment. He will be asking what is the best way to gather this information and he may ask a few questions such as: what are the Inuktitut words for certain places? How do people tra...

Principal Investigator: Salaun, M. Jean-Paul
Licensed Year(s): 1976
Summary: 1) Reconstruction of the paleoclimatic and paleogeographic outline in which human occupancy developed. 2) Analysis of settlement pattern and land use during Paleo-Eskimo period. 3) Analysis of a Dorset Settlement in a paleo-ethnological perspective....

Principal Investigator: Stager, John
Licensed Year(s): 1975
Summary: A baseline study focusing on structure and sociological dynamics with description of economic and organizational patterns of the community with appreciation of geography, logistics and human potential of the area, for Polar Gas....