Ulukhaktok

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

Discusses the social, material, and political changes taking place in Inuit communities and their impact on behaviours, attitudes, and lifestyle of the younger generation.

Discusses the creation of a confidential listening and crisis intervention Help Line program to deal with the community's high suicide rate.

Looks at a printmaking program, started by Father Henri Tardy, as a means for economic growth in the community. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 22.

Study found that patterns of sharing of country foods varied between hunters and wage earners; hunters tended to favour associations with distant and collateral relatives, while wage earners focused on parents and siblings. Discusses how these affiliations can affect vulnerability to environmental change.

Geography Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of Guelph, 2016.

Project related to prevention of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) by giving a voice to unheard voices on areas of health.

Geography Thesis (M.A.)--University of Guelph, 2016.

Data for five communities and the region as a whole.

Study employs the Arctic Social Indicators (ASI) framework to assess the health of six communities in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region (ISR). Indicators assessed include: health and population, material well-being cultural vitality, closeness to nature, education, and fate control.

Transcriptions of Elders' oral histories of the Kangiryuarmiut's seasonal migration and culture, and description of the Ulukhaktok Literacy Research Project.

Research on what constitutes literacy in a community from the perspective of the people who live there. 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.

Concludes that land skills continue to be transmitted most often from older to younger generations through observation and apprenticeship in the environment.