NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Berkes, Fikret
Licensed Year(s): 1989
Summary: Mr. Berkes will be assisting the Dene Cultural Institute in a pilot project on Dene Traditional Knowledge. They will be talking to the Dene in the Fort Smith region to learn of the role of the hunters, their traditional ways of hunting and preserving the...

Principal Investigator: Wenzel, George W.
Licensed Year(s): 1988
Summary: Dr. Wenzel will be interviewing some hunters to collect harvest data and to learn about the costs of hunting. He also has some academic questions that he is investigating. These include: is there a better definition for the words "subsistence economy"; can you collect accurate harvest data if you only interview some hunters instead of all hunters; and, what are all the preparations and decision...

Principal Investigator: Chartrand, Jean Philippe
Licensed Year(s): 1988
Summary: to assess the general value placed on the practice of hunting and its interplay with the quantity and quality of Inuktitut usage in various social contexts; to assess how hunting has changed and how changes have affected the Inuit sense of cultural identity...

Principal Investigator: Nahanni, Phoebe
Licensed Year(s): 1987
Summary: To complete the research begun in 1986 and to concentrate on the data collection of the decision-making aspects of hunters of the Lower Liard Dene in the N.W.T....

Principal Investigator: Smith, Shirleen
Licensed Year(s): 1984
Summary: To study the use of subsistence products. This will involve accompanying people in the bush, for example on spring hunt, as well as interviewing people in the community....

Principal Investigator: Jacobson, Roy
Licensed Year(s): 1981
Summary: To continue a study of how the land and its resources (principally wildlife) are used in the day to day life of the residents of the communities. Discussions with the HTA's will center on the areas of Melville, Prince of Wales and Bathurt Islands....

Principal Investigator: D'Anglure, Bernard Saladin
Licensed Year(s): 1980
Summary: To continue a study of Inuit history, traditional religion and hunting techniques. Dr. D'Anglure will conduct interviews and make recordings of the information....

Principal Investigator: Takano, Toshio
Licensed Year(s): 1979
Summary: As part of a master's thesis on the "Acculturation of the Canadian Eskimo" to study the various aspects of everyday Inuit life. Such things as social organization, religion, education levels, employment levels, technological awareness and levels of hunting fishing and trapping will be documented....

Principal Investigator: McDonnell, Sheila
Licensed Year(s): 1979
Summary: To conduct a study to determine the current types of economic activity, the amount of wage employment and the extent of renewable resource harvesting, e.g. fishing, hunting, and trapping. The study will also look at the potential for future community- based economic growth....

Principal Investigator: D'Anglure, Bernard Saladin
Licensed Year(s): 1979
Summary: To conduct interviews and gather comments and opinions on traditional hunting techniques, history and traditional religion....