Northwest Territories

Study suggests that young hunters are not under pressure to produce very much food due to provisions made by parents and older siblings. Paper from Orality in the 21st Century: Inuit Discourse and Practices. Proceedings of the 15th Inuit Studies Conference edited by B. Collingnon and M. Therrien.

Related Material: Summary and Recommendations Report.

Discusses findings that while bone density of Inuit is decreased in women with Type 2 Diabetes mellitus (T2D) is reduced the risk of osteoporosis is mitigated.

Book review of: What's The Most Beautiful Thing You Know About Horses? by Richard Van Camp and illustrated by George Littlechild.

Education Thesis (M.Ed.)--Memorial University of Newfoundland, 2001.

Looks at the Berger Inquiry and the perspectives of First Nations communities on building the Mackenzie Valley pipeline. Duration: 47:12.

Examples from fieldwork in the region are used to demonstrate the utility of the Foucaultian approach when conducting Indigenous research.

Standing in front of wooden building with long stairway.

Study shows nutritional intervention strategies are needed to promote frequent consumption of nutrient-rich foods and less frequent consumption of non-nutrient dense foods.

Discusses how integrating natural and social sciences and traditional knowledge can improve the understanding of how natural ecosystem functions and responds to various environmental stressors.

Book review of: From New Peoples to New Nations by Gerhard J. Ens and Joe Sawchuk. Entire book review section on one pdf. To access this review scroll to p. 152.

Looks at influences on educational reform in the northern community of Aklavik and development of a science curriculum.

Presents key recommendations related to the effects of climate change on northern people.

Geography Thesis (Ph.D.)--Queen's University, 1992.

Book review of: Fur Trade Posts of the Northwest Territories: 1870-1970 by Peter J. Usher.

Investigates selected aspects of the commercial trapping industry and attempts to identify factors that influence participation in this historically important activity.

Lists official geographic place names with official spellings and location.

Presents a study that looks at health and environmental risk perspectives associated with gender and place in two sets of northern Canadian Aboriginal communities.

Study identified 34 boards with a total of 210 members; 176 (84%) were males and 34 (16%) were females. Nine boards had no female members, and 18 had only one.

Study looks at gender imbalance in wildlife co-management boards in the Yukon. Current female representation ranges from 0 percent to 83 percent.

Looks at the role of women in resource development and community governance from an economic, socio-cultural and political point of view.

Compares three environmental assessment (EA) cases: Voisey's Bay Mine and Mill in Nunatsiavut; Meadowbank Mine in Nunavut; and the Mackenzie Gas Project in the Northwest Territories. Discusses gendered nature of the resource decision-making processes and argues that EA process privileges resource extraction, re-inscribes gender hierarchies, and undermines Indigenous mixed economies.

Results suggest that genetic variation of the gene cluster may be a useful tool for the study of quantitative lipoprotein variation in the Dogrib.

History of a co-operative project between the Dene Nation and the University of British Columbia to develop a database on the effects of the Norman Wells Pipeline Expansion and the Pipeline Project.

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Alberta, 2002.

Results found that a significant genetic differentiation among the three Dogrib villages in the Northwest Territories.

Biology Thesis (M.Sc.)--Laurentian University, 1997.

Presents discussion of approaches, methodologies and protocols relevant to oral testimony with an emphasis on the Northwest Territories.

[Anthropology] Thesis (M.A.)--University of Manitoba, 1998.

Discusses how communities in and around the City of Yellowknife are becoming involved in the economic and environmental issues surrounding mineral extraction in their region.

Study to diagnose diabetes in Dogrib adults living in several settlements in the Canadian Northwest Territories.

Examines the various models of governance that will be established after Aboriginal claims are concluded.

Outlines government institutions and key governance issues including land claims, self-government agreements, intergovernmental processes, wildlife and resource management, institutional governance, and economic development. Presentation from: Proceedings of the Third Northern Research Forum: The Resilient North: Human Responses to Global Change, Yellowknife, NWT, 2004.

Minister of the Environment and Parks Canada, Rona Ambrose, signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Chief Adeline Jonasson to advance work on an area of interest totalling 33,525 sq. km.. See article # 74.

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--Dalhousie University, 1994.

Linguistics Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Calgary, 2003.

Church in background.

"From the Report of the U.S. National Museum for 1895 ..."

Geography Thesis (M.A.)--University of Saskatchewan, 1972.

Discusses results of project undertaken to map and inventory community gardens and greenhouses in Labrador, Nunavik, Nunavut, Yukon, and the Northwest Territories.

Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--University of Victoria, 2016.

Looks at two successful seasons of growing food and possible expansion of the garden.

Looks at the effect of physical activity on child and adolescent development in two circumpolar communities in the different phases of a sedentary lifestyle.

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