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Toward Food Security in Canada's North: Summary Report

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Darren Gilmour
Isabelle Couture
Summarizes discussions from series of roundtables held in the Northwest Territories, Nunavut and Ontario. Topics covered: nature of the problem, current strategies and programs, key lessons, and future directions.
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Toward More Effective, Evidence-Based Suicide Prevention in Nunavut

Alternate Title
Northern Exposure: Peoples, Powers and Prospects in Canada's North
[Art of the state (Montréal, Québec) ; v. 4]
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Jack Hicks
Looks at statistical trends in number of suicides, age, sex, region and community. Discusses past and current research, areas for future study, and seven working hypotheses. Excerpt from Northern Exposure: Peoples, Powers and Prospects in Canada's North edited by Frances Abele, Thomas J. Courchene, F. Leslie Seidle and Frances St-Hilaire.
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Towards the Development of a Nunavut Suicide Prevention Strategy: A Summary Report on the 2009 Community Consultations

Alternate Title
http://www.tunngavik.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/towards-the-development-of-a-nunavut-suicide-prevention-strategy-eng.pdf
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Ellen Bobet
Concludes that Nunavummiut desire a range of prevention services, from community initiatives focused on primary prevention through to professional care for people at higher risk.
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Traditional Food and Monetary Access to Market-Food: Correlates of Food Insecurity Among Inuit Preschoolers

Alternate Title
Food Insecurity in Nunavut
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Grace M. Egeland
Laakkuluk Williamson-Bathory
Louise Johnson-Down
Isaac Sobol
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 70, no. 4, 2011, pp. 373-383
Uses data from the Nunanvut Child Health Survey to assess household and nutritional characteristics, as well as reliance on traditional foods.
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Traditional Food Attributes Must be Included in Studies of Food Security in the Canadian Arctic

Alternate Title
Traditional Food Attributes and Studies of Food Security
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jill Lambden
Olivier Receveur
Harriet V. Kuhnlein
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 66, no. 4, September 2007, pp. 308-319
Found that traditional food is regarded as natural and fresh, tasty, healthy and nutritious, inexpensive, and socially and culturally beneficial.
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The Transition from the Historical Inuit Suicide Pattern to the Present Inuit Suicide Pattern

Alternate Title
Moving Forward, Making a Difference ; vol. 2
Aboriginal Policy Research ; vol. 4
Aboriginal Policy Research Conference ; 2nd, 2006
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Jack Hicks
Peter Bjerregaard
Matt Berman
vol. 4

Traces trends in Nunavut, Nunavik, Alaska, Greenland and the Circumpolar region, and discusses possible explanations for increases in the suicide rate.

Chapter three from Moving Forward, Making a Difference, vol. 2, which is also vol. 4 in the Aboriginal Policy Research series.

Originally presented at the second annual Aboriginal Policy Research Conference, 2006.

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"The Trauma Experienced by Generations Past Having an Effect in Their Descendants": Narrative and Historical Trauma Among Inuit in Nunavut, Canada

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Allison Crawford
Transcultural Psychiatry, vol. 51, no. 3, Historical Trauma, June 2014, pp. 339-369
Looks at narratives outside of the official Truth and Reconciliation Commission, such as oral histories and Inuit art and film, for aspects of the colonial trauma and the impacts of history.
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Tuktu and the Ten Thousand Fishes

Alternate Title
The Stories of Tuktu
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Laurence Hyde
Tuktu, a fictional elder, recalls a fishing trip to the ancient stone weir. Duration: 14:13.
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Tuktu and the Trials of Strength

Alternate Title
The Stories of Tuktu
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Laurence Hyde
Tuktu, a fictional elder, recalls the Inuits' strength in hunting and other activities including the drum dance. Duration: 14:18.
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Two Paths One Direction: Parks Canada and Aboriginal Peoples Working Together

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Steve Langdon
Rob Prosper
Nathalie Gagnon
George Wright Forum, The, vol. 27, no. 2, 2010, p. 222–233
Examines the unique legal and constitutional relationship with First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples and Parks Canada including the legislative policy and corporate changes that have occurred over the last 30 years.
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Un Alignment de Pierres Peut-Il Être un Nangissat Paléoesquimau?

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Claude Pinard
Études Inuit Studies, vol. 27, no. 1-2, Architecture Paléoesquimaude / Palaeoeskimo Architecture, 2003, pp. 111-129
Discusses the process of excavating a site on Qikertaaluk Island containing Pre-Dorset tent rings and speculates on the possible function of the associated row of stones.
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Understanding the Social and Economic Impacts of Mining Development in Inuit Communities: Experiences With Past and Present Mines in Inuit Nunangat

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Thierry Rodon
Francis Lévesque
The Northern Review, no. 41, Resources and Sustainable Development in the Arctic , 2015, pp. 13-39
Looks at how the Salluit and Kangiqsujuaq (Nanavik) and Raglan nickel mine and Qamani'tuaq (Baker Lake, Nunavut) and Meadowbank gold mine have impacted Inuit communities.
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The Unforgotten: A Five-Part Film Exploring the Health and Well-Being of Indigenous Peoples Living in Canada

Alternate Title
The Unforgotten Toolkit: An Educational Guide to Learn About, Reflect on and Dismantle Anti-Indigenous Racism in Health Care
Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
Build.Films
Networked Health
Ewan Affleck

Five vignettes explore effects of colonialism and systemic discrimination from birth through to elderhood. Accompanied by Educational Guide. Duration: 35:51.

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Unikkaaqatigiit: Putting the Human Face on Climate Change: Perspectives from Nunavut Communities

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Communities of Arctic Bay
Kugaaruk and Repulse Bay
Inuit Tapiriit Kanatam
Nasivvik Centre for Inuit Health and Changing Environments
Environments
Public Health Research Unit
CHUL ... [et al.]
Reports results of workshop discussions about observed changes in the environment, impact of changes, and present and future adaptations.
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Unikkaartuit: Meanings and Experiences of Suicide Among Inuit in Nunavut, Canada

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Michael J. Kral
Lori Idlout
J. Bruce Minore
Ronald J. Dyck
Laurence J. Kirmayer
International Journal of Indigenous Health, vol. 10, no. 1, [Sharing Knowledge Across Nations], December 2014, pp. 55-68
Project involved interviewing participants from the communities of Igloolik and Qikiqtarjuaq. Common themes were: loneliness, romantic relationship problems, family problems, anger at family or romantic partners, hiding suicidal thoughts or distress, and youth copying each other.
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