Communities

Canadian Heritage and Development Studies Thesis (M.A.)--Trent University, 1999.

Canadian Studies Thesis (M.A.)--Carleton University, 1990.

Author describes the collection of artifacts and clothing amassed by Finnish scientist Henrik Johan Holmberg during an 1851 expedition, and how that collection was purchased by Christian Jürgensen Thomsen for the Museum of Northern Antiquities and is now part of a large collection of skin clothing made by circumpolar Indigenous peoples.

Discusses Inuit housing in the Canadian North including history, policy and ongoing problems.

Examines language patterns to determine the extent of Eskimo speaking groups of the northeastern Asian coast.

Comments on participatory practices aligning with local community priorities.

Examines the role and actions of Raven in Yup’ik creation narratives and traditional stories; and how those stories are recorded in the place names and understandings of the land.

Anthropological and ethnological works on the Eskimo and Inuit.

Hudson Bay Company building in Rankin Inlet, N.W.T.

Comments on the changing climatic conditions that have increased the exposure of the community to climate related risks and the resulting coping strategies used by Inuit communities. Presentation from: Proceedings of the Third Northern Research Forum: The Resilient North: Human Responses to Global Change, Yellowknife, NWT, 2004.

Book review of: Hummocks: Journeys and Inquiries Among the Canadian Inuit by Jean Malaurie.

Reviews report on health implications and reasons for food insecurity and the pilot food mail program in Kugaaruk, Nunavut.

Discusses the colonial marginalization of "country foods" and the resulting food insecurity in Inuit communities in Nunavut. Geography [Honours] Thesis (B.A)--McGill University, 2016.

Educational site providing information and resources on the Arctic, the Inuit culture and Canada's newest territory - Nunavut.

Book review of: Hyperboreal by Joan Naviyuk Kane.

Research conducted to determine whether Inuit ethnicity protects the obese from type 2 diabetes mellitus.

Geography Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Toronto, 2007.

Study works to identify human health indicators of climate change, focusing on factors relevant to the Canadian arctic. 20 indicators were identified using the The Piliriqatigiinniq Community Health Research Model; indicators focused on four key themes: 1) environmental health; 2) morbidity and mortality; 3) population vulnerability; and 4) mitigation, adaptation, and policy.

Interviews residents from the Upernavik district about their lives as hunters and the pressure to protect their traditional way of living and thoughts on oil exploration and residents working in the industry.

Discusses the disproportionate suicide rate in Alaskan Native youth and presents new ideas to understand the issue.

Discusses structure type, location and faunal content.

Looks at the importance of orality in the 21st century and throughout human history. 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.

Looks at Inuit identity and the transforming relationship with the land.

Presents results from several seasons of research including data from community interviews, archaeological surveys and excavations at four Inuit settlements, one Inuit-Métis house, and one Newfoundland fishery camp.

Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--McGill University, 1996.

Looks at life in the village of Kangirsujuaq, Nunavik where tradition and modernity blend together in Inuit life. Duration: 27:55

Geography Thesis (M.A.)--McGill University, 1973.

Looks at a small community that was introduced to video in 1979 and highlights several videomakers. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 26.

Examines problems that have confronted the Nunavut Housing Corporation, and looks at program and policy initiatives undertaken to address the situation.

[Education] Thesis (M.Ed.)--University of Prince Edward Island, 2002.

Reviews research literature on Inuit concept of kinship and the importance of naming systems which present new emerging perspectives and understandings.

Education Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Toronto, 2004.

Geography Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Waterloo, 2006.

Concludes that although 23-valent pneumococcal polysacchardie vaccine was useful in controlling an outbreak of Streptococcus pneumoniae in Nunavik, better vaccines are needed.

Interdisciplinary Studies Thesis (M.A.)--Royal Roads University, 2012.

Study of 247 participants in Nunavut examines the feasibility and safety profile of 3HP for the treatment of Latent Tuberculosis Infection (LTBI).

Critiques attendance policy and discusses implementation problems with policy at the school and community levels.

Book review of: In A Hungry Country by Simon Paneak, edited by John Martin Campbell.

Discusses how a once marginalized indigenous group grows and develops into an Arctic political authority.

Film review of: In the Reign of Twilight written and directed by Kevin McMahon. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 56.

(abstract and full text in English) A brief history of the Baker Lake facility, which opened June 3, 1998.

2 statistical tables. Source: 2011 National Household Survey.

"National publication for the Indians of Canada." Focus on Indigenous issues, events at residential schools and legal decisions. Previously published as Indian Missionary Record. Articles reflect the attitudes and policies of the time.

Looks at a new wave at colonization and building a cooperative understanding for decision making about the future.

Looks at the main forms of governance developed and practiced among the Indigenous peoples of the North American and Russian Norths.

Looks at characteristics of traditional legal order in Eastern Canada and Nunavut.