NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Lennie, Naudia
Licensed Year(s): 1993
Summary: The researcher and guide/translator will travel the Mackenzie Delta regions of Thrasher Channel, Napoiak, Big Jim Channel and Horseshoe Bend to find the locations of camp and hunting sites, as well as cabins and legendary sites, that may be important to Inuvialuit history. Traditional place names and land use will also be recorded. Information will be obtained from elders who are living out on t...

Principal Investigator: Bravo, Michael
Licensed Year(s): 1992 1988
Summary: The researcher will construct a framework for presenting Inuit history in written form without losing the unique qualities of the spoken form. He will investigate concepts of authority and credibility to see how they differ from those of written history. As well, he will discuss historical conclusions based on research completed in 1988 to check the facts and clarify interpretations....

Principal Investigator: Randa, Vladimir
Licensed Year(s): 1992 1990 1988
Summary: The researcher will collect new data about the small land and water vertebrates and invertebrates, and collect more information in regards to the relationship between oral tradition and zoological terminology. Another topic will be the use of fire-arms in hunting, for example, strategies of acquisition and use of different types of hunting weapons in relation to different kinds of game....

Principal Investigator: Aharonian, Dave
Licensed Year(s): 1992
Summary: The researcher will examine the ability of an aboriginal community to adapt to climate change by documenting past events which have been influenced by the climate. These events will be probed through the oral histories of the community members, especially elders. The views and perceptions as held by the community members, concerning future changes in climate will be determined....

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: Rowley, Susan D.M.
Licensed Year(s): 1991
Summary: The Researcher will investigate how Inuit perceptions of outsiders have changed through time from Sir Martin Frobisher to the American military....

Principal Investigator: Soberman, Daniel
Licensed Year(s): 1991
Summary: The Researcher will interview as many community members with direct recollections or with useful oral contributions of recollections from their friends and families; do a search of relevant government and other documents and of research done by other researchers; write a report summarizing the findings; make appropriate recommendations to the parties concerned....

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: Nagy, Murielle
Licensed Year(s): 1991
Summary: In conjunction with the Inuvialuit Social Development Program, the Researchers will gather the oral history concerning the lives of Inuvialuit along the Yukon North Slope. They will document post-contact aboriginal land use as recorded in historic sites, graves, resource extraction areas, caches, look-outs, trails, place names and gathering places in the Yukon North Slope....

Principal Investigator: Fitzhugh, William
Licensed Year(s): 1993 1992 1991 1990
Summary: The Research project, begun in 1990, will survey the Frobisher sites at Kodlunarn Island, explore Frobisher's mines and other possible sites and study Inuit sites dating from before, during and after the Frobisher contact period....