NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Fraser, Crystal G
Licensed Year(s): 2013
Summary: The researcher is examining the history of education in the Northwest Territories from 1940 to 1996. The objectives of this project are three-fold: 1) developing a historical narrative explaining the changing nature of education during the time frame; 2) interacting with community members to bring Aboriginal voice and perspective to academic research; and 3) reflect on northern history in regional...

Principal Investigator: Fraser, Crystal G
Licensed Year(s): 2013
Summary: The researcher is examining the history of education in the Northwest Territories from 1940 to 1996. The objectives of this project are three-fold: 1) developing a historical narrative explaining the changing nature of education during the time frame; 2) interacting with community members to bring Aboriginal voice and perspective to academic research; and 3) reflect on northern history in regional...

Principal Investigator: Fraser, Crystal G
Licensed Year(s): 2013
Summary: The researcher is examining the history of education in the Northwest Territories from 1940 to 1996. The objectives of this project are three-fold: 1) developing a historical narrative explaining the changing nature of education during the time frame 2) interacting with community members to bring Aboriginal voice and perspective to academic research and 3) reflect on northern history in regional s...

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"....

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: 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: Fitzhugh, William
Licensed Year(s): 1993 1992 1991 1990
Summary: The Researcher and his team will elucidate the earliest European settlement of the region and study its impact on local Inuit culture and history. They will collaborate with local educational, research and cultural institutions....

Principal Investigator: Eber, Dorothy
Licensed Year(s): 1988
Summary: Ms. Dorothy Eber is to work through interpreters in Pond Inlet in gathering oral history related to whaling in Baffin Island, Hudson Bay and the Strait. She hopes to integrate the oral history into the historical context of existing information. Due to weather problems she did not travel to Pangnirtung but received material which can be incorporated along with the oral histories....

Principal Investigator: Csonka, Yvon
Licensed Year(s): 1989 1988
Summary: Mr. Czonka has spent the last two years gathering information in southern archives and museums on the history of the Ahiarmiut. He is returning to Eskimo Point to look at the information available at the Inuit Cultural Institute and to interview elders. He will present a copy of his study to the Inuit Cultural Institute and to the Hamlet Council when it is completed....