NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Nagy, Murielle
Licensed Year(s): 1996
Summary: We will record interviews with Inuvialuit elders from February 19 to 25 in Inuvik; February 26 to March 7 in Sachs Harbour; March 11 - 21 in Holman. The interviews will then be translated into English and transcribed into Inuvialuktun. Interviews will resume in Tuktoyaktuk from June 10-16; in Sachs Harbour June 17-July 8; and in Inuvik from July 9-13. While in Sachs Harbour, Inuvialuit elders w...

Principal Investigator: Hart, Elisa J.
Licensed Year(s): 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991
Summary: In this ongoing project to determine the location and nature of heritage sites, the researcher has interviewed 46 elders and 304 sites have been identified. In 1994, the researcher will verify the information provided with the elders. Verification of information will include: the spelling of traditional place names and traditional words, information on traditionally used places, identifying people...

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: McNeal, Joanne
Licensed Year(s): 1994 1993 1992
Summary: Phase One and Two were completed in 1992 and 1993. Phase 3 (completion) will review previous interviews and additional interviews will be conducted. Current interviews will become part of an international project headed by Dr. Rita Irwin of UBC....

Principal Investigator: Webster, Deborah
Licensed Year(s): 1994
Summary: This oral history project is complementary to an archaeological survey which will be conducted in the Thirty Mile Lake area. The research team will be conducting interviews with Baker Lake elders in order to determine the significance of this area to wildlife and people. This research will support a presentation to the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada to determine if this area should...

Principal Investigator: Searles, Ned
Licensed Year(s): 1994
Summary: The researcher will collect information about the history of outpost camps in the Frobisher Bay area. Individuals who currently use these outpost camps will be interviewed in order to document and compare their experiences living in the camps with living in Iqaluit. Benefits of `outpost camp' life will be evaluated. Information collected will be used for a doctoral (Ph.D.) thesis in socio-cultur...

Principal Investigator: Kritsch, Ingrid D.
Licensed Year(s): 1994 1993
Summary: The researcher will conduct this study under the direction of the Gwich'in Tribal Council. The Council is interested in taking a role in gathering interpretive information for the development of the Campbell Lake Park. The purpose of this project is to provide the Gwich'in perspective of life in the Campbell Lake Park area. Information on place names, trails, camp sites, resources and stories w...

Principal Investigator: Stenton, Douglas R.
Licensed Year(s): 1993 1991
Summary: In this third season of the project, the researchers will collect information on summer and autumn land use on southern Baffin Island during the late prehistoric period. Information collected will include data on travel routes that people followed to interior hunting and fishing grounds, characteristics of the campsites and information on family/party size....

Principal Investigator: McIsaac, Elizabeth
Licensed Year(s): 1993
Summary: While conducting research in Lake Harbour in 1992, the researcher noted an interest expressed by residents in the development of a local cultural and environmental visitors centre. The purpose of such a centre would be to complement the Katannilik Park which is located on one of Canada's heritage river systems. As an initial step, the researcher will document the cultural and environmental herita...