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Contested Discourses: Do soòłįį satsò dekwoo beh
Principal Investigator: Bowen, Jennifer Elizabeth
Licensed Year(s): 2021
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.4855. This research project will explore where and how the daggers are exhibited in museums and cultural centres in the Yukon and the Northwest Territories. From the present understanding, there are no daggers in Northern Athapaskan cultural centres or community exhibits in the North. In local museums and emerging cultural ...


Food Security Initiatives across the Northwest Territories
Principal Investigator: Skinner, Kelly
Licensed Year(s): 2021 2020
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.4936. This research aims to learn from and enhance community capacity to address priorities and inform both climate change and food security action and support-structures at local, regional, and territorial scales. This research will examine questions related to food security and climate change across the four cross-cut...


Fort Good Hope Transitional Home: A Journey Back to Home
Principal Investigator: Madsen, Veronica
Licensed Year(s): 2021
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.4861. In this project, the principal aim is to support the work of K'asho Got'ine Housing Society (KGHS) by advancing an understanding of how transitional hosing programs can be adapted and implemented in a way that promotes community strengths and promotes a sense of home through contextually- and culturally appropriate su...


Pilot study: Investigating Lead Exposure in the Sahtú region
Principal Investigator: Skinner, Kelly
Licensed Year(s): 2021
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.4902. This project is a preliminary project, mainly based on literature review, to investigate what is currently known about lead exposure and lead sources in Northern Canada. In parallel, some work would be done to engage and prepare for a following project monitoring lead in the Sahtú region. These findings will support t...


Perspectives of Public Health and Educational Leaders on Cannabis Education for Indigenous Youth
Principal Investigator: Kearley, Melanie
Licensed Year(s): 2021
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.4961. The goal of this project is to explore perspectives of public health and educational leaders regarding cannabis education for Indigenous youth in the Northwest Territories, Canada, to make recommendations for the development of culturally appropriate approaches. There will be 10 in-depth interviews conducted, appro...


Sahtú Benígodi: Traditional Knowledge of Great Bear Lake and its Watershed
Principal Investigator: Spring, Andrew
Licensed Year(s): 2021 2019 2018
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.4540. The purpose of this project is to build a comprehensive database of Traditional Knowledge of the Great Bear Lake and its watershed to form an environmental baseline for the cumulative impacts of climate change and development. By compiling the rich history and stories from existing literature, studies and other initia...


Sustainable food system research in Yellowknife
Principal Investigator: Spring, Andrew
Licensed Year(s): 2021 2019 2018 2017 2016
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.4881. The objectives of this research is to support the implementation of the sustainable food systems research and related local food activities in Yellowknife. This will be done through: 1) Working with and supporting local groups (Ecology North and the Yellowknife Farmers Market) to identify community-based strategi...


Promoting Home and Self-Governance: Housing as an Active Site of Engagement in Fort Good Hope
Principal Investigator: Pugsley, Aimee Louise
Licensed Year(s): 2021
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.4867. The purpose of this research is to meet the research needs of the community of Fort Good Hope as the Principal Investigator (PI) explore in collaboration with the K’asho Got’ine Housing Society (KGHS) how their community-led social housing program can become sustainable. The complex geographies of the housing crisis i...


Climate change and the potential socio-economic effects on communities resulting from reducing winter road access
Principal Investigator: English, Michael C
Licensed Year(s): 2021
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.4952. The overall goal of this research project is to evaluate how citizens of two Northwest Territory communities, Wekweeti and Aklavik, view the vulnerability of the winter roads serving each community to climate warming and how these impacts may affect community well being with respect to socio-economics and culture. Ove...


Cultural Revitalization, Preservation and Connection to the Land in the Mixed Economy of the NWT
Principal Investigator: Coad, Abigale
Licensed Year(s): 2021
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.4911. By conducting interviews with a Yellowknife organization (Dene Nahjo), this thesis seeks to determine the definition of decolonization to Dene peoples and the importance of Indigenous resurgence and land reclamation in the NWT. Decolonization and the NWT will combine community-based research with archival analysi...


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