NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Baillargeon, Morgan
Licensed Year(s): 1991
Summary: The research will address issues pertaining to the endangerment of traditional art forms and practices specific to hide tanning and porcupine quill work. Additionally, the researcher will examine the difficulty in obtaining raw materials and the social implications related to the loss of these art forms....

Principal Investigator: Pocklington, Sarah
Licensed Year(s): 1990
Summary: The Researcher will conduct interviews and library studies to study the leadership styles of Dene living in the Northwest Territories....

Principal Investigator: Putt, Betty-Anne
Licensed Year(s): 1990
Summary: This project will conbine analysis of interview data, review of available literature and the personal accounts of the elders. The elders will be asked to verbally respond to a series of open questions aimed at gathering data to meet the objectives of the research of traditional Inuit practices related to pregnancy and childbirth....

Principal Investigator: Stenton, Douglas R.
Licensed Year(s): 1990
Summary: As part of the Environmental Technology Program of Arctic College this work will attempt to integrate Euro-Canadian science with Inuit traditional knowledge. The Peterhead Inlet site provides a context in which students/participants gain experience in the fundamentals of data analysis and recovery while exploring a diverse range of research topics....

Principal Investigator: Kritsch, Ingrid D.
Licensed Year(s): 1990
Summary: The Researcher will live in the community of Trout Lake for 14 months. During that time, she will write a general ethnography of the Trout Lake people with a particular emphasis on the economy and the social networks within the community....

Principal Investigator: Stewart, Henry
Licensed Year(s): 1992 1990
Summary: The researchers will gather further data concerning the unique caribou hunting method employed until about 1930 that they researched in 1988 and 1989. Once finished the researchers will prepare both a technical and non technical report for the hamlet....

Principal Investigator: Johnson, Martha
Licensed Year(s): 1990
Summary: The information gathered will be used to establish a system of wildlife management and land use planning in Denendeh that combines both western scientific and traditional approaches to environmental management. Information will also be used for curriculum development in the sciences and social studies programmes....

Principal Investigator: Ireland, Jeanette
Licensed Year(s): 1990 1989 1988
Summary: Jeanette Ireland will continue collecting oral Inuit stories from elders of various eastern Arctic communities and written Inuit textbooks. The researcher hopes to improve approaches to the study of Inuktitut texts, oral and written, as literature representative of Inuit perceptions of world issues and social interaction....

Principal Investigator: Berkes, Fikret
Licensed Year(s): 1989
Summary: Mr. Berkes will be assisting the Dene Cultural Institute in a pilot project on Dene Traditional Knowledge. They will be talking to the Dene in the Fort Smith region to learn of the role of the hunters, their traditional ways of hunting and preserving the...

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....