Compendium of Research Undertaken in Nunavut 2004
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Compendium of Research Undertaken in Nunavut 2004 Nunavut Research Institute 1 Foreword The Nunavut Research Institute was created in 1995 when the Science Institute of the NWT was divided into eastern and western operations. In the Eastern Arctic, the re-named institute was amalgamated with Nunavut Arctic College. The Nunavut Research Institute focuses on supporting scientific research and technology development across a broad spectrum of issues and concerns. The Institute’s interpretation of research is broad – incorporating Inuit Qaujimanituqangit, social sciences, and natural sciences. The following mission statement guides the activities and services provided by the Institute: The mission of the Nunavut Research Institute is to provide leadership in developing, facilitating and promoting Inuit Qaujimanituqangit, science, research and technology as a resource for the well being of people in Nunavut. Institute services are guided by the core values of Nunavut Arctic College - strong communities, cultural appropriateness, partnerships, quality, access, responsiveness and life-long learning. The Nunavut Research Institute places emphasis on brokering northern-based research, which is linked to community needs, and making greater use of Inuit Qaujimanituqanit in research projects. This Compendium of Research has been produced as part of the Institute's effort to communicate information about research projects, which have recently taken place in Nunavut under the authority of the Nunavut Scientists Act. FOR MORE INFORMATION For more information about the research projects listed in this Compendium, please contact: Nunavut Research Institute P.O. Box 1720 Iqaluit, Nunavut X0A 0H0 Phone: (867) 979-7202/7279 Fax: (867) 979-4681 E-mail: [email protected] [email protected] Internet: www.nunanet.com/~research 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS Models and Metaphors of Healing in Aboriginal Context................................................................................... 6 Food Security in Nunavut: Traditional and Market Food : A Community Study................................................. 6 The study of Congenital Heart Defects in a Northern Population ....................................................................... 7 Does the Metabolic Disorder, CPT1 defiency, cause Sudden Unexplained Death among Inuit Children............. 7 The Emergence of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Among the Inuit of the Baffin Region............................................................................................................................................................... 8 Learning Plan - Community Health Development.............................................................................................. 8 Usage of the Nunavut Kamatsiaqtut Help Line .................................................................................................. 9 Pangnirtung Medical Practices Study: Forming a history of practical care.......................................................... 9 Monitoring Temporal Trends of Human Environmental Contaminants in the NWT and Nunavut: Inuvik and Baffin Regions................................................................................................................................................. 10 Prevelance of Sexually Acquired Gonococcal and Chlamydial Infections in an Inuit Community: Identifying Gender Differences in Sexual Networks, Risk Behaviours and Health Services Utilization.............................. 11 Does the Metabolic Disorder, CPT1 Deficiency, cause Sudden Unexplained Death among Inuit Children in... 11 Implementation of the TAH / BNL System for Nunavut .................................................................................. 11 Connections to the Land: Health and Resilience in Arviat Nunavut................................................................. 12 Cross Cultural and Landscape Level Land Use Understanding on the Beverly and Qamanirjuaq Caribou Ranges ........................................................................................................................................................................ 12 Organizational Unity in the Creation of Nunavut ............................................................................................. 13 An Integrated Investigation of Coupled Human and Sea Ice Systems: A Comparison of Changing Environments and their uses in Western and Eastern North American Arctic ......................................................................... 14 Teaching and Learning Technology; Enhancing Equity for Canadian Youth.................................................... 14 Community Adaptation in a Changing Arctic Environment ............................................................................. 14 Inuit Discourse and Identity After the Advent of Nunavut................................................................................ 15 Ethnological Research on Traditional Knowledge and Environmental Management in the Inuit Society of Pelly Bay.................................................................................................................................................................. 16 Development of a Coastal Community Climate Change Action Plan................................................................ 16 Impact Benefit Agreements and Their Role in Pursuing Sustainable Mining Communities .............................. 17 The New Rural Economy Site Profile for Arctic Bay ....................................................................................... 17 Inuit Art in Anthropological Perspectives ........................................................................................................ 18 Changes and permanent features in the attitudes towards the wildlife and the subsistence activities, transmissions of knowledge and skills through generations............................................................................. 19 A study of Traditional and Colonial Conceptions of Space and Time among the Inuit of Baffin Island ............ 19 The political and Social Transformation Process in Nunavut........................................................................... 20 Socio-Economic for High Lake........................................................................................................................ 21 Inuit Identity, Wildlife, Justice and Sustainability............................................................................................ 22 Family photography as a Social Construction of Collective Memory in Mittimatalik ....................................... 22 Canadian Multiculturalism: Day School Contest and Perceptions of Children and Youth................................. 23 Re-Inventing Isuma ......................................................................................................................................... 24 Retracing the Burials of Displaced Inuit Afflicted with Tuberculosis ............................................................... 24 Healing the social body: A community-based approach to mental health policy.............................................. 25 Teaching and Learning Technology; Enhancing Equity for Canadian Youth.................................................... 25 Ice through Inuit Eyes...................................................................................................................................... 26 Northern People and Northern Knowledge: A Virtual Museum of the Canadian Arctic Expedition of 1913- 18...... .............................................................................................................................................................. 26 Suicide and Well-Being Amongst Inuit Youth ................................................................................................. 27 Inside School Administration in Nunavut: Three Women's Stories................................................................... 28 3 Dog Slaughters and the Inuit in the Eastern Canadian arctic............................................................................. 28 Inuit Adaptive Stragtegies and Environmental Conditions ............................................................................... 29 Inuit Quajimajatuqangit, Climate Change and Western Knowledge ................................................................. 29 A comparative Grammer of inuktitut Dialects.................................................................................................. 30 Local knowledge (IQ) on climate change and marine birds in High Arctic Nunavut......................................... 31 Polar Beak and Inuit ........................................................................................................................................ 31 Kiluhiqturmiut Project..................................................................................................................................... 32 IQ for High Lake and Ulu................................................................................................................................ 32 Parasites and Biting Flies in Nunavut.............................................................................................................. 33 Limnology of Cape Vera Ponds ....................................................................................................................... 34 Glacier-climate studies on Grinnell ice cap .....................................................................................................