Communities

A walrus carcass on the deck of a Peterhead boat. Coral Harbour, N.W.T. [NU].

Mixed methods study that examines the challenges and opportunities of waste management—including household waste and accumulations generated by military installations and extractive industries—in Nain and Happy Valley-Goose Bay.

Book review of: A Way of Life That Does Not Exist by Colin Samson.

Book review of: A Way of Life That Does Not Exist by Colin Samson.

Excerpt from a report that makes 13 recommendations to address the far-reaching effects of poor housing conditions.

Study collects and analyses responses to mainstream representations of Inuit culture from Inuit women. Discusses Western beauty standards projected onto Indigenous women, normalization of media tropes including silencing, victimization, violence, missing and murdered Indigenous women (MMIW). Stresses a need positive role models and self-representation.

At a wedding reception. Part of the "Innuit of Keewatin" series (#32).

Public Issues Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--University of Guelph, 2014.

Ratings determined by income, educational attainment, housing conditions and labour force participation. Data from Statistics Canada Census of Population, 2006.

Compares the educational levels, labour levels, and the income and housing quality and quantity levels in Métis communities to other aboriginal communities. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 85.

Discusses influences on Campbell's writings and the influence her writings had in her community.

Outline explains the role of the Canadian Arctic Contaminants Assessment Report II (CACAR-II) to Inuit residents.

Discusses music course offered at the Nunavut Arctic College's Teacher Education Program (NTEP) which incorporated Inuit culture as a central theme.

Looks at several works: Muittalus Samiid Birra by Johan Turi, Terveisiä Lapista by Nils-Aslak Valkeapää, Saamelaiset by Kirsti Paltto.

Research conducted to help the Nunavut Government Department of Justice monitor and assess justice programs and help communities develop local programs suited to Inuit people. On one pdf. Scroll down to page 5 to read article.

Book review of: Who Owns the Arctic? by Michael Byers.

Marine Management Thesis (MMM)--Dalhousie University, 2019.

Chapter six in book: The Anthropology of Peace and Nonviolence edited by Leslie E. Sponsel and Thomas Gregor.

Article extends Lorraine Brooke’s 1995 study of the James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement (JBNQA) and its effectiveness in creating a wildlife co-management regime; concludes that little progress has been made since 1995, and the power relationships between Inuit and non-Inuit Government agencies remains problematic.

Book Reviews of: Wise Words of the Yup'ik People Peopleby Ann Fienup-Riordan. Translations by Alice Rearden. Yupiit Qanruyutaitedited by Ann Fienup-Riordan.

Discusses the story of Sedna and the myth's appeal to Inuit people striving to define a cultural position within Canada.

Recreation and Leisure Studies Thesis (M.A.)--University of Alberta, 1989.

Book review of: A World You Do Not Know by Colin Samson.

Book review of: Writing on Ice edited and introduced by Gisli Palsson.

Reminiscences of an RCMP officer and his wife stationed at Baker Lake during the late 1940s and comparisons with the community of today.

Presents contrasting views, between the Inuit and early ethnographers, on the ancient drum dance and its meaning. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 20.

International Development Thesis (M.A.)--Saint Mary's University, 1999.

Book reviews of 3 books: The Yukon Relief Expedition and the Journal of Carl Johan Sakariassen edited by V.R. Rausch and D.L. Baldwin. Arctic Justice by Shelagh D. Grant. Arctic Migrants, Arctic Villagers by David Damas.

Social and Educational Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of British Columbia, 1993.