NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Blaisel, Xavier
Licensed Year(s): 1991
Summary: The Researcher will study customary rituals from Inuit. Specific work will focus on understanding historic Inuit roles and behaviors surrounding the birth of children with the co-operation of the Iqaluit Elders Society....

Principal Investigator: Berge, Anna
Licensed Year(s): 1992 1991
Summary: The Researcher will conduct preliminary research specific to learning Inuktitut and to developing relations with the community....

Principal Investigator: Bielawski, Ellen
Licensed Year(s): 1991
Summary: The Researcher will compare Arctic Science and Inuit Knowledge by conducting an ethnography of Arctic science and a study of how Inuit constructed knowledge when relocated to the High Arctic from Arctic Quebec....

Principal Investigator: Muller-Wille, Ludger
Licensed Year(s): 1991 1990 1989
Summary: The Researcher and team will continue to collect, document, establish and preserve a complete record of all known Inuit geographical names systematically from oral tradition and other existing sources in all Inuit communities throughout the Keewatin District....

Principal Investigator: Whitridge, Peter James
Licensed Year(s): 1991
Summary: The Researcher will accompany hunters from the site of kills at the floe edge or seal breathing hole through all stages of ringed seal carcass treatment. Research will focus on the patterned dismemberment of carcasses for transport and consumption, including weights and composition of butchering units and other factors such as cooking techniques, socially prescribed distribution and refuse disposa...

Principal Investigator: Qulaut, George
Licensed Year(s): 1991
Summary: In-depth audiotaped interviews are conducted with selected Iglulingmiut elders on a wide range of topics including: life-histories, wildlife biology, hunting techniques, sewing methods, skin reparation, diet, education, philosophy, astronomy, climatology, treatment of illness and folk-lore. The tapes are transcribed, translated, word-processed and edited....

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 in the years 1821-1823 will be organized, excerpted and annotated under approximately 100 thematic headings and sub-headings. These journals provide the earliest written records of this area. The project will emphasize Inuit ethnology but will include geography, toponymy, biology, botany and climatology....

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: Daviss-Putt, Betty-Anne
Licensed Year(s): 1991
Summary: The Researcher and her associate will continue to collect and document traditional Inuit childbirth practices and will distribute their findings to Inuit communities....

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....