Discusses the progress of Nunavut’s socio-economic goals and the challenges in advancing their economic and social objectives while coping with economic, social and environmental changes.
Contemporary Linguistics Analysis: An Introduction
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Eung-Do Cook
Darin Flynn
Description
Discusses Canada's First Nations nine language families, the separate language family of the Inuit and the mixed language of the Métis.
Chapter nine from Contemporary Linguistics Analysis: An Introduction by William O'Grady, John Archibald.
IRPP Choices, vol. 14, no. 9, August 2008, pp. 1-26
Description
Reviews changes that have taken place since the signing of the James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement using various indicators such as income, education, and life expectancy.
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 7, no. 1, Winter, 1992, pp. 7-13
Description
Comments on the oil boom being a major factor for the success of the arts in the mid-1970s through the mid-1980s.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 7.
Journal of Nutrition, vol. 125, no. 10, October 1995, pp. 2501-2510
Description
Examines the exposure of Arctic Indigenous women, living in two communities of the Canadian Arctic, to polychlorinated biphenyls and organochlorine pesticides via their diet.
Encyclopedia Arctica. Transportation and Communications
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Author/Creator
Howard A. Chapelle
Description
Looks at umiak (open boats) and kayak (decked hunting canoe) used by Inuit in Canada, Greenland, Alaska and Asia and compares them to the Irish curraghs.
Digitized copy of typescript is part of the unpublished reference work on the Northern Arctic and subarctic regions. Project ran from 1947-1951.
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 7, no. 2, 1992, pp. 26-34
Description
Three Inuit artists, Iyola Kingwatsiak, Kananginak Pootoogook, and Jimmy Manning, are interviewed by telephone after attending the Conference on Inuit Art.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 26.
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 7, no. 3, Summer/Fall, 1992, pp. 17-21
Description
Two Inuit artists, Oviloo Tunnillie and Martha Tickiq, are interviewed at the Mario Scott Gallery in Vancouver.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 17.
Environmental Health Perspectives, vol. 103, no. 7/8, July-August 1995, pp. 740-746
Description
Reports the levels of cadmium, lead, and mercury in traditional foods from Qikiqtarjuaq, Baffin Island and the related health risks and benefits of eating these foods.
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 67, no. 5, December 2008, pp. 396-407
Description
Demonstrates that international partnerships in cancer surveillance can work well, and that Inuit are at high risk for some cancers that are rare in other population groups.
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 67, no. 5, December 2008, pp. 408-420
Description
Concludes that cancer is increasing among Inuit men and women in all regions, and suggests that they continue to be at extreme high risk, relative to non-Inuit populations.
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 23, no. 1, Spring, 2008, pp. 26-29
Description
Focuses on works by Kenojuak Ashevak, Kananginak Pooroogook, Pitaloosie Saila, Suvinai Ashoona, Ningeokuluk Teevee, and Kakulu Saggiaktok.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to p. 26.
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 10, no. 4, Winter, 1995, pp. 4-13
Description
Elaborates on the three basics of maintaining an art collection: prevention, conservation and restoration.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 4.