NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Ryan, Joan
Licensed Year(s): 1991
Summary: The Dene Traditional Justice Case Study will document the traditional laws and justice mechanisms of the Dogrib people. The research will address concerns about the effectiveness of the current justice system for Dene in the Northwest Territories. Local Dogrib researchers will be trained and employed to carry out the work....

Principal Investigator: Raffan, James
Licensed Year(s): 1991
Summary: The Researcher will gather songs, stories and cultural perceptions to find out how landscape imposes meaning....

Principal Investigator: Beaudry, Nicole
Licensed Year(s): 1992 1990 1989 1988
Summary: Ms. Beaudry will continue the work she began in 1988 in the communities of Fort Franklin and Fort Norman. In addition, through the invitation of the community of Fort Good Hope her research this year will encompass this community as well. She will be conducting interviews with elders and making recordings where appropriate....

Principal Investigator: Rundstrom, Robert A.
Licensed Year(s): 1991 1990 1989
Summary: Dr. Rundstrom and his team will interview people in some Keewatin communities to record the oral history of the original names given to their communities. They will also train northern assistants to continue this work throughout the Keewatin....

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....

Principal Investigator: Stevenson, Marc G.
Licensed Year(s): 1987
Summary: To establish, through oral history, the macro- and micro-settlement patterns of the Cumberland Sound Inuit during the Whaling Era. Elerly informants will be questioned about the locations, and factors influencing their selection of 1)sites around the sound, and 2)dwellings within settlements. The ultimate aim of this research is to formulate a model of Inuit sociopolitical organization during th...

Principal Investigator: Stenton, Douglas R.
Licensed Year(s): 1984
Summary: The collection of oral histories from people in Frobisher Bay as the first step of an investigation into the use of inland resources by prehistoric groups....

Principal Investigator: D'Anglure, Bernard Saladin
Licensed Year(s): 1982
Summary: To continue studies of Inuit history, traditional religion and customs. Interviews and recordings will be conducted....

Principal Investigator: D'Anglure, Bernard Saladin
Licensed Year(s): 1981
Summary: To continue studies of Inuit history, traditional religion and customs. Interviews and recordings will be conducted....