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Conceptualizing indicators as boundary objects in integrating Inuit knowledge and western science for marine resource management

Arctic Science, 2020
A complex co-management system exists across Inuit Nunangat, whereby federal, provincial, territorial governments and Inuit organizations manage natural resources cooperatively.
Melina Kourantidou, Carie Hoover, Megan Bailey   +2 more
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Inuit Sentinels: Examining the Efficacy of (Life) Writing Climate Change in Sheila Watt-Cloutier’s The Right to Be Cold

Canada and Beyond, 2022
The impact of climate change on Inuit communities in the Canadian Arctic has been widely documented in a myriad of scientific publications. However, the cultural and identity shifts attached to these changes have often been overlooked in mainstream ...
Claudia Miller
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A Way Home: Understanding the impact of human trafficking on Inuit women in Manitoba

International Journal of Population Data Science
Objectives A WAY HOME will work with the Inuit community to develop a culturally relevant and community-informed algorithm, which will determine prevalence rates of sexual exploitation and risk levels of exploitation for Inuit women in Manitoba, Canada.
Leah McDonnell
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Inuit Observations on Climate Change [PDF]

This is an overview of the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) project at Sachs Harbour on Banks Island, Northwest Territories, Canada, an effort to document the problem of Arctic climate change as experienced by the Inuit living ...

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Cross-jurisdictional pandemic management: providers speaking on the experience of Nunavut Inuit accessing services in Manitoba during the COVID-19 pandemic

International Journal of Circumpolar Health, 2023
Across Canada, the COVID-19 pandemic placed considerable stress on territorial and provincial healthcare systems. For Nunavut, the need to continue to provide access to critical care to its citizens meant that medical travel to provincial points of care (
Josée G. Lavoie, Wayne Clark, Leah McDonnell, Nathan Nickel, Rachel Dutton, Janet Kanayok, Melinda Fowler-Woods, Jack Anawak, Nuqaalaq Brown, Grace Voisey Clark, Tagaak Evaluardjuk-Palmer, Sabrina T. Wong, Julianne Sanguins, Adriana Mudryj, Nastania Mullin, Marti Ford, Judy Clark   +16 more
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Frozen in Place: European American Ideologies and the Inuit [PDF]

, 1994
It has been claimed by Hugh Brody that European Americans maintain strong ideological connections between Inuit people and the Arctic environments they inhabit.
Buege, Douglas J.
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Sociality, temporality and locality in a contemporary Inuit community [PDF]

, 2006
Mauss (1906) a suggéré qu’un des principes de la société inuit veuille que la dichotomie sociale saisonnière se traduise par des mouvements de la population, d’après la migration annuelle du gibier, soit par la concentration ou par la dispersion en ...
Stuckenberger, A. Nicole
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Genetic Risk and High Burden of Depression and Suicide in the Maya‐Mestizo Population of Yucatán, México

American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Major depression and suicide are critical public health concerns, particularly in underrepresented populations with unique genetic and sociocultural contexts. The Maya‐mestizo population presents the highest suicide rates in the country but remains understudied in psychiatric genetics. This study evaluated the association between three genetic
Marta Menjivar, Erandi Bravo, Margarita Rivera‐Balancan, Barbara Itzel Pena Espinoza   +3 more
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Culture et maladie mentale chez les Inuit du Nunavik [PDF]

, 1993
Bien que l'on retrouve dans la population Inuit du Grand Nord du Québec (Nunavik) les troubles psychiatriques majeurs décrits dans la nosologie psychiatrique actuelle, la culture influence de manière importante la symptomatologie et l'évolution de ces ...
Corin, Ellen, Corriveau, André, Fletcher, Christopher, Kirmayer, Laurence J.   +3 more
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Ontogenetic changes and sexual dimorphism in the cranium and mandible of the Atlantic walrus (Odobenus rosmarus rosmarus L.)

The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract Walruses have been an important subsistence and cultural resource for humans and have been exploited for millennia across their distribution. This exploitation has contributed to severe declines in several populations and local extirpations.
Katrien Dierickx, Oliver Kersten, Youri van den Hurk, Brenna A. Frasier, Richard Sabin, Bastiaan Star, James H. Barrett   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source