NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

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: 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: MacDonald, John
Licensed Year(s): 1993 1991
Summary: The expedition journals kept by W.E. Parry during his visits to the Northern Foxe Basin during 1821-1823 will be organized, excerpted and annotated under approximately 100 thematic headings and sub-headings. These journals provide the earliest written records of the area. The project will emphasize Inuit ethnology but will include geography, toponymy, biology, climatology and geology....

Principal Investigator: Andre, Alestine
Licensed Year(s): 1993 1992
Summary: The researcher and her team will gather information during interviews with Gwich'in elders of Arctic Red River to compile mapped information. Maps provided by the NOGAP Archaeology Project will be used to record information regarding trail systems and transportation networks, traditional camps and stops, place names and resources sought after according to season....

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: Collignon, Beatrice M.
Licensed Year(s): 1998 1992 1991
Summary: The Researcher will conduct a study to investigate Inuit geography, their geographical thoughts about the land and their perception of space and the way they organize their knowledge of the land into an general explanation of the world around them. A place name survey will be carried out with the elders of each community. Younger adults will be asked to give the names they know to understand how ...

Principal Investigator: Muller-Wille, Ludger
Licensed Year(s): 1991 1990 1989
Summary: Dr. Muller-Wille and his team will continue to 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: Berdoulay, Vincent
Licensed Year(s): 1979
Summary: To collect a complete inventory of place names in the geographic area occupied by the Hare Indians....