NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Martin, Sandy D
Licensed Year(s): 2006
Summary: The study marks a continuation of Traditional Knowledge work initiated, as part of the Mackenzie Gas Project, with the community of Fort Good Hope in 2003. Local knowledge and technical/scientific research, in combination with a synthesis of existing technical information, is being used to develop a suitable knowledge base for planning, assessment of impacts and development of environmental protec...

Principal Investigator: Johnston, Brian
Licensed Year(s): 2006
Summary: As part of developing a Draft Land Use Plan for the Peel River watershed region, the Peel Watershed Planning Commission proposes to carry out interviews to gain a better understanding of the Tetlit Gwich’in experience on the land, including the community’s knowledge of important wildlife areas within the region. Accordingly, the interviews will involve participants communicating information on key...

Principal Investigator: Hart, Elisa J.
Licensed Year(s): 2005 2004 2003
Summary: The objective of this final work on the Tuktoyaktuk Place Names Project is to review the draft of the book that reports the results of this project.The proposed benefits for completing the book on place names and stories about the land are: to provide educational material on Inuvialuit culture, history and geography for use in local schools, and to provide a book which can be enjoyed by the peopl...

Principal Investigator: Ruttan, Lia
Licensed Year(s): 2003 2002
Summary: The objective of this study is to understand the process whereby Aboriginal elders in the community of Fort Smith have engaged in exploring and responding to historical events over the past century. These accounts have not yet been collected or analyzed...

Principal Investigator: Gray, David
Licensed Year(s): 2002
Summary: The researcher is collecting information on the Canadian Arcitc Expedition (CAE) of 1913-1918 commanded by Vihjalmur Stefansson in preperation for an on-line (Internet) exhibit for the Virtual Museum of Canada. The objectives of this research are: 1) to...

Principal Investigator: Fafard, Melanie
Licensed Year(s): 2003 2002 2001 2000
Summary: This is a community based project with the objective of conducting an archaeological inventory of the Peel River Plateau in order to build a heritage inventory and improve the understanding of human history of the area. Within the ethno-archaeological survey oral histories will be collected from Teetl'it Gwich'in Elders. These interviews will be conducted with informed consent and will be audio-...

Principal Investigator: Hart, Elisa J.
Licensed Year(s): 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991
Summary: The researchers will complete the last steps of a research project that began in 1991. This will include reading over compiled information with elders for verification; flying along the coastline with elders to help verify locations of places that there is some confusion over and record their coordinates with a GPS; and setting down at sites that elders suggest to talk a bit more about the histor...

Principal Investigator: Andrews, Tom
Licensed Year(s): 1994
Summary: The researcher as part of the archaeology program of the Gwich'in Social and Cultural Institute will interview elders about the upper Arctic Red River. Information regarding traditional place names, hunting, fishing and trapping areas, camping spots, location of graves and sacred sites and major trails will be discussed and recorded. This information will help determine where the researcher will...

Principal Investigator: Rowley, Susan
Licensed Year(s): 1994
Summary: The researcher has been contracted by Parks Canada to write a history of Nunavut for the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada. This study will focus on two areas: 1/features of the Inuit culture common throughout Nunavut and 2/the different regional groups within Nunavut. Through interviews and consultation with the Igloolik Elders' Society, a history of Igloolik will be written. Drafts of...

Principal Investigator: Woodman, David
Licensed Year(s): 1994
Summary: The research team will investigate stories told to Charles Francis Hall in 1879 about the Franklin expedition. Supunger told Hall about a vault sealed with "all look like stone"....