Northwest Territories

Summary of progress for the years 2001-2006. Ninety-one schools were surveyed regarding the number of seats available/filled, location of access programs, special admission categories, nature of support programs, and number of Aboriginal faculty.

Discusses a collaborative study to investigate the health and social service needs of the elderly, chronically ill and disabled.

Interview with Alootook Ipellie about shamanism, his works, and walking an invisible border.

Peter Fidler's journal helps the author evaluate the amount of food consumed, per person, during the winter of 1791-1792.

Discusses the two most influential environmental assessments; the Berger Inquiry (Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry) and BEARP (Beaufort Sea Environmental Assessment and Review Process) as well as the Great Whale River Hydroelectric Project in Northern Quebec and the Ekati Diamond Mine in NWT.

Geography Thesis (M.A.)--University of Saskatchewan, 1990.

Examines some of the innovative structures and processes of government found in the North and their roots in Aboriginal cultures.

Community Health Sciences Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of Manitoba, 1992.

Discusses the 1956 murder trial of Steve Angulalik, one of the most famous and prosperous Inuk in the world.

Covers issues such as social housing, childcare, education, language, and health and reports on initiatives undertaken by the organization.

Uses the Northern Cultural Heritage Project to show the mixing of research with a northern social context.

Source: CMHC (National Household Survey-based housing indicators and data).

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Describes site and suggests it should be preserved as an important archaeological site.

Looks at site areas that pertain to the Dorset and Thule cultures.

Looks at relationship between gender issues and the environment, economic conditions, domestic violence, health, housing, homelessness and politics.

Discusses trends and the lack of material on Inuit studies.

Reports survey data from three large cultural areas: the Yukon First Nations, Dene/Métis, and Inuit communities and compares current proportion of traditional food in diets to the precontact period and the amount of traditional food consumed by older vs. younger generation.

Comments on some of the key challenges for northerners and their governments.

Focuses on documents (1995 to present) produced by Inuit organizations, northern governments, Canadian parliamentary committee hearings, and select northern newspapers. Includes preliminary bibliography of literature concerning relations with the military in the north.

Book review of: Arctic Power by John H. Parker.

Investigates the myth of the Arctic as an unspoiled wilderness, a view not shared by Inuit people.

Presents an ecological and nutritional overview of Inuit food sources.

Discussion of the higher risk for obesity, the need for ethnospecific obesity criteria and health interventions.

Geography Thesis (M.A.)--McGill University, 1992.

Reports results of 397 telephone interviews with individuals drawn from the information enquiry database of the NWT Arctic Tourism records of people who had attended consumer shows and requested information from tourism booths.

The interior of the Arts & Crafts Shop [Rankin Inlet, NU]. Part of the "Inuit of Keewatin" series (#28b.).

Survey of primary care providers to identify issues relating to communication, clinical support and patient evaluation.

Looks at dietary intake patterns, physical activity levels, dietary behaviours, chronic disease and psychosocial factors.

Health Studies and Gerontology Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of Waterloo, 2016.

Geography Thesis (M.A.)--University of Guelph, 2007.

Geography Thesis (Ph.D.)--McMaster University, 1994.

Law Thesis (LL.M.)--University of Toronto, 1990.

Discusses the significance of the release of the first Inuit- produced feature film, script by Paul Apak Angilirq and directed by Zacharias Kunuk.

Shows inhabited and uninhabited reserves (based on 1980 data), settlements and other communities by size. Base map reflects 1973 data.

Comparison of Athabaskan languages.

Mission visible in background.

Address to the Rotary Club, Yellowknife, NWT by the Indian Claims Commissioner of Canada. Abstract: "The author believes that the claims of the indigenous people of the Northwest Territories as to ownership of resources and a right to direct participation in resource development, together with a high degree of political autonomy within the larger Canadian society, are just and well-founded. Given control of resources, the indigenous peoples are fully able to cope with the responsibilities that go with large resources and with autonomy..."

Project reflects on over 250 publicly-known benefit agreements from the northern regions of Canada.

History Thesis (M.A.)--Dalhousie University, 2002.

Change in lifestyle in younger generation related to changes in livelihood including hunting and fishing for survival.

"The purpose of this review is to summarize what is known about effective practices in Aboriginal schooling."

Documentation produced to assist teachers to plan, develop and deliver programming for adult learners.

Revised edition 1991.

Compares and contrasts indigenous clothing design and recent textile art as "parallel artistic traditions."

Discusses barriers to good health and health care in the north.