Northwest Territories

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Sahtú Glossary: Cancer Terminology

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
K’áshó Got’ı̨́nę́ Charter Community
Tulı́t’a Dene Band
Goba Group
Government of the Northwest Territories Department of Health and Social Services
Lists: term, English definition, translation into Fort Good Hope, Tulı́t’a, Délįnę dialects, and literal (back) translation.
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Science in the Changing North

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
C. R. Burn
Northern Review, no. 29, Northern Research Institute: Fifteen Years of Building Yukon Research Capacity, Fall, 2008, pp. 7-20
Presents personal perspective on environmental science research in northwest Canada.
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Science Meets Traditional Knowledge: Water and Climate in the Sahtu. (Great Bear Lake) Region, Northwest Territories, Canada

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Ming-Ko Woo
Paul Modeste
Lawrence Martz
Joe Blondin
Bob Kochtubajda
et al.
Arctic, vol. 60, no. 1, March 2007, pp. 37-46
Discusses the exchange of scientific and traditional knowledge on the northern environment to gain a better understanding of the atmospheric and water environments in the Sahtu.
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Searching for Solutions to the North's Quiet Epidemic

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Natalie Dunleavy
CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal, vol. 177, no. 12, December 4, 2007, p. 1488
Argues that suicide has become a leading cause of death among youth in the Northwest Territories, and is now twice the national average.
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Selected Bibliography on Nunavut

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Jack Hicks
Focuses on the negotiation and implementation of the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement and the design and implementation of the Government of Nunavut.
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The Silent North: A Case Study on Deafness in a Dene Community

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Heather Castleden
Canadian Journal of Native Education, vol. 26, no. 2, 2002, pp. 152-201
Explores one northern First Nation's response to deafness in the community and examines deafness from a cultural perspective rather than from a medical or pathological framework.
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Singatuk In Front Of Sled

Images » Photographs
Author/Creator
Department of Physics fonds
University of Saskatchewan
Singatuk standing in front of sled.
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Sled to Ft. Sik Sik

Images » Photographs
Author/Creator
Department of Physics fonds
University of Saskatchewan
Fort Sik Sik was a sod hut about 20 miles (32.5 km.) away from the University of Saskatchewan researcher's base camp.
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Snow-Banked Buildings

Images » Photographs
Author/Creator
Institute for Northern Studies
Buildings almost completely buried in a snow drift; location unknown. Part of the "Inuit of Keewatin" series (#9).
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Snowshoe

Images » Photographs
Author/Creator
Ludger Mueller-Wille
Photograph. On information card: Close-up of snowshoes. (not ethnographical) Snowshoes worn by Dr. Mueller-Wille and are Quebec snowshoes owned by Prof. Williamson. Dunvegan Lake Camp, Mackenzie District, N.W.T.
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Snowshoe on Tree

Images » Photographs
Author/Creator
Ludger Mueller-Wille
Image of a snowshoe hanging on a tree. Dunvegan Lake Camp, Mackenzie District, N.W.T.
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Snowshoes

Images » Photographs
Author/Creator
Ludger Mueller-Wille
Photograph. On information card: Close-up of a pair of snowshoes (not Ethnographical). Snowshoes worn by Dr Mueller-Wille and are Quebec Snowshoes owned by Prof. Williamson. Dungevan Lake Camp, Mackenzie District, N.W.T.
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The Social Economy of Canada's Aboriginal North

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
David C. Natcher
Looks at the the social, economic, and political interplay that takes place between subsistence and wage economies, sharing and reciprocity, and regulatory regimes that mediate harvesting and distribution of wildlife resources.
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Social Studies Grade 5: Canada: The Peoples and Stories of This Land: A Curriculum and Guide to Implementation

E-Books
Author/Creator
NWT Department of Education, Culture and Employment

Nine modules: Origins and Connections to the Land; Pre-Contact Cultures; Early European Exploration and Colonization; Nouvelle-France and Cultural Integration; French-English Rivalry; Refugees, Warriors and Reformers; Negotiating Confederation; Furs, Farms and the Métis; and Treaties, War, and the Changing West.

Integrates Dene, Inuvialuit and Inuinnait perspectives on history.

"Territorial Pilot 2011-2012".

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Sorting It Out in the Northwest Territories

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Terry Fenge
Northern Perspectives, vol. 21, no. 1, Spring, 1993
Author outlines some reasons why the Inuit were successful in the forming Nunavut.
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Space Syntax Analysis of Central Inuit Snow Houses

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Peter C. Dawson
Journal of Anthropological Archaeology , vol. 21, no. 4, December 2002, pp. 464-480
Analysis of how the layout of buildings influences social and environmental interaction.
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Spirit of the Drum: The Development of Cultural Nursing Praxis

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Pertice Moffitt
Judith Wuest
Canadian Journal of Nursing Research, vol. 34, no. 4, Completed Student Research Projects, 2002, pp. 107-116
Comments on ways to facilitate teaching and learning in a multicultural setting.
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