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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Author/Creator
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.
Looks at history, socio-political context, rights, markets, authenticity, partnerships, and success of Aboriginal tourism industry in British Columbia.
Chapter 12 in book: Introduction to Tourism and Hospitality in BC edited by Morgan Westcott.
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.
Focuses on documents (1995 to present) produced by Inuit organizations, northern governments, Canadian parliamentary committee hearings, and select northern newspapers. Includes preliminary bibliography of literature concerning relations with the military in the north.
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Digitized copy of typescript is part of the unpublished reference work on the Northern Arctic and subarctic regions.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.
Arctic, vol. 66, no. 3, September 2013, pp. 279-290
Description
Study conducted between 2007 and 2010 consisted of 105 semi-directed interviews with residents of 11 communities in the Kivalliq and Qikiqtaaluk regions. Since killer whale population appears to be on the rise, perceptions of the animal and its consumption of subsistence species has implications for marine ecosystem management.