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Meeting the information needs of Inuit regarding contaminants
chercheur principal: Usher, Peter J.
Année(s) de permis: 1994 1993
Résumé: The researchers will be continuing their interviews with community members on identifying contaminant issues and information needs related to those issues. Interviews will be conducted with a wide range of individuals, including harvesters, elders, women, youth and professionals. An appropriate communication strategy will be developed in an appropriate cultural and social context....


Subsistence Hunting as an Economic/Ideological Adaptation among Young Canadian Inuit Adults
chercheur principal: Condon, Richard G.
Année(s) de permis: 1992 1988 1987
Résumé: This ethnographic research project is designed to examine the degree to which young Inuit households are involved in traditional subsistence harvesting and how these activities are supplemented by recently introduced wage employment opportunities. The study will utilize participant-observation as well as formal and informal interviews....


Inuit Diets and Organic and Metal Contaminants in the Food Chain at Sanikiluaq, N.W.T.
chercheur principal: Weis, Michael
Année(s) de permis: 1991
Résumé: Through interviews and diet diaries, the patterns of consumption of "country foods" and commercially prepared foods will be assessed in seasons throughout the year. This continuing study will assess the nutritional quality of the diet and will quantify the dietary intake of contaminants....


Perceptions of Health and Traditional Foods
chercheur principal: Egan, Christine
Année(s) de permis: 1990
Résumé: Ms. Egan will continue work begun in 1988. She will interview individuals regarding frequency and severity of perceived health problems and the frequency with which health care was sought during the period of June to August 1990....


Food Composition and Dietary Evaluation for Nutrients and Environmental Contaminants in Mackenzie Zone
chercheur principal: Kuhnlein, Harriet V
Année(s) de permis: 1990
Résumé: Dr. Kuhnlein and her team will study the foods in the traditional food system of the Dene people of Fort Good Hope/Colville Lake for their composition and patterns of use. Nutritional properties as well as toxicological properties will be assessed. Household and personal food use interviews previously collected will be analyzed using nutrient and toxicology data of food samples from the Dene area....


Radiocesium Levels in Northern Residents
chercheur principal: Tracy, Bliss
Année(s) de permis: 1989
Résumé: Dr. Bliss Tracy and team will be travelling to Baker Lake and to Rae-Edzo, NWT in order to complete whole body counts of radiocesium on the local people. Radiocesium falls from the air onto lichens, and is then eaten by caribou and passed on to people. The researchers will measure how much radiocesium is in people's bodies. They will document how much caribou is eaten so that they can advise peop...


Mackenzie River Watershed Survey of Fish Harvesters
chercheur principal: Little, Lois M.
Année(s) de permis: 1988
Résumé: The Dene Nation asked the Department of Indian and Northern Affairs to conduct a survey about fish caught in the Mackenzie Valley. Lutra Assoc. will be training someone in each community to ask questions like this: How many fish are not normal and why? Where are these caught? How much fish are people eating? Is this changing because more abnormal fish are being caught? What would happen if pe...


Technology Development for Seal and Walrus Products Appropriate for Inuit Manufacture and Marketing
chercheur principal: McDowell, Marilyn E.
Année(s) de permis: 1988 1987
Résumé: Dr. McDowell is returning to ask people how they like the sausages and other processed meats that are being developed from seal and walrus meat. She is also looking for more sources of meat and will be asking about how to produce these products in the north....


Assessment of Toxaphene Intake by Mackenzie River Community Residents, NWT
chercheur principal: Kuhnlein, Harriet V
Année(s) de permis: 1988
Résumé: In response to an earlier study that was requested by the Dene Nation on contaminants in loche and whitefish, Health and Welfare Canada and other agencies are sponsoring this study to find out what amounts of contaminants people are eating. Dr. Harriet Kuhnlein and assistants will be asking people what foods they eat and how much. Renewable Resource officers will collect samples of wild foods fo...


The role of food in the maintenance and transformation of social relationships: an Eskimo Point example.
chercheur principal: Walker, Marilyn
Année(s) de permis: 1987
Résumé: To examine the role of food among the Inuit, and in interaction with Euro-Canadians by observation of select families and their contacts with kabloona and indigenous foods. Profiles on areas related to foods will be written, select households will be interviewed, and a food survey will be completed....


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