Addressing Inuit Women’s Economic Security and Prosperity in the Resource Extraction Industry
Reports results of literature search and qualitative and quantitative survey data from 29 women living in Arviat, Salluit, Inuvik, and Baker Lake. Study's focus was sexual violence and harassment in the workplace, and identifying gaps, opportunities and recommendations to ensure women's safety and economic security.
Related material: Literature Review.
Adult Learning Knowledge Centre: Young Adults in the North Share their Stories
Community Food Program Use in Inuvik, Northwest Territories
Conflicting Styles of Life in a Northern Canadian Town
General Correspondence - W
The Great Northern Arts Festival & the Future of Art in the Northwest Territories
High Modernism in the Arctic: Planning Frobisher Bay and Inuvik
The History of the Federal Residential Schools for the Inuit Located in Chesterfield Inlet, Yellowknife, Inuvik and Churchill, 1955-1970
Homeless in a Homeland: Housing (In)Security and Homeless in Inuvik and Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada
Intergenerational Connections Handbook: A Compilation of Stories from Intergenerational Projects Throughout Communities in the Northwest Territories
John Diefenbaker Speaking in Inuvik
John Diefenbaker speaking to reporters in Inuvik
Kaluak
Learning to Be Smart: An Exploration of the Culture of Intelligence in a Canadian Inuit Community
Lived Territories: A Take of Inuit Women's Contemporary Subsistence and Belonging
Mrs. Diefenbaker visits with residents of Inuvik at the Official Opening of the Arctic community.
Muskoxen/Sedge Meadow Interactions, North-Central Banks Island, Northwest Territories, Canada
A Nineteenth-Century Mackenzie Inuit site Near Inuvik, Northwest Territories
Olive Diefenbaker at opening of Inuvik, Northwest
Historical note:
Olive Evangeline (Freeman, Palmer) Diefenbaker; b. 14 Apr, 1902; d. 23 Dec, 1976; second wife of JGD.Pathways to Homelessness: Rural-Urban Migration & Housing Insecurity in Yellowknife and Inuvik, Northwest Territories
Prime Minister John Diefenbaker and his wife Olive enjoying a Drum dance presented to them at Inuvik, NWT.
Project Jewel
Quaqtaq: Modernity and Identity in an Inuit Community
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples 5: Family Hall, Inuvik, Northwest Territories
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples 5: Opening Prayer and Opening Remarks
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples 6: Family Hall, Inuvik, Northwest Territories
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Dick Hill
Presenter discusses the administrative, economic, and demographic composition of Inuvik, Northwest Territories. Hill discusses its' ethnic composition (1/3 First Nations, 1/3 Inuit, 1/3 other), its' administrative and institutional apparatus, and related issues in response to questioning from Commissioners Rene Dussault, Allan Blakeney, Grace Blake, and Mary Sillett. Land claims and economic development are also discussed.
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by George Gillies, Inuvik Regional Hospital
In response to a question by Commissioner Allan Blakeney, Gillies discusses the amount of health staff in the Mackenzie Delta area including the proportion of Aboriginal employees, and their positions. Commissioner Mary Sillett also asks a staffing question, and then preceding presenter Patricia Lowe and Allan Blakeney discuss northern community staffing issues.
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Margaret Donovan, Vice-President, Gwich'in Tribal Council
Presenter discusses: the history of the Gwich'in people including the signing of Treaty 11 in 1921; land claim issues; language rights and recognition; self-governance and intergovernmental relations; and cultural, educational, and quality of life concerns.
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Patricia Lowe, Society of Friends Against Family Violence
Lowe discusses the society's work promoting the establishment of a shelter for battered women and children in Inuvik over the past four years, and why such a facility is needed.
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Rita Arey, President, Northwest Territories Status of Women, Closing Remarks, and Closing Prayer
The file contains a presentation on by President Rita Arey of the Northwest Territories Status of Women organization, closing remarks and a closing prayer. President Arey presents on her organization's work on behalf of women and specifically the challenges facing Aboriginal women in the Northwest Territories.
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Victor Allen
presentation on the history of Inuvik going back to the establishment of the community in the 1950s. Followed by Commissioner Mary Sillett delivering opening remarks, and Commissioner Allan Blakeney and local Commissioner John Holman discuss the presentation with Allen.
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation on behalf of the Inuvik Community Corporation, Pauline Gordon and Glenna Hansen
Vice-Chairman of Corporation discusses racism in Canada and its' impact on Aboriginal peoples, a lack of recognition of Aboriginal organizations as legitimate governing bodies and a suggestion to the Commission to "replace the system as it stands now and replace it with one that gives equal stature and governing powers to all." Chairman Hansen then presents on Aboriginal languages, the education system in the Northwest Territories, unequal treatment afforded French, problems facing Aboriginal professionals; and double standards in policing and justice systems.
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation on behalf of the Inuvik Regional Multicultural Society, Louis Beck and Simon Jozzy
Beck discusses "the society and what it stands for" through the use of a parable. Simon Jozzy discusses what the multicultural society means to him personally as an immigrant to Canada and stresses that "learning and education is the foundation of understanding." Beck then goes on to discuss racism and combatting it, while Jozzy adds the need for increased education and the important role that parents play in forming children's attitudes about race. Following the presentation the assembled Commissioners discuss the organization and some of the issues raised.