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Representing Traditional Knowledge: Resource Management and Inuit Knowledge of Barren-Ground Caribou
Society and Natural Resources, 2008Comanagement regimes in Canada's North rarely include indigenous systems for understanding the environment. Mapped representations and accompanying narratives illustrating the collective knowledge of indigenous hunters can make unique management contributions.
Anne Kendrick, Micheline Manseau
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Awareness and Knowledge about Human Papillomavirus Among Inuit Women in Nunavik, Quebec
Journal of Community Health, 2010Accurate knowledge about human Papillomavirus (HPV) and its link to cervical cancer is essential for women to understand and make use of cervical cancer prevention and detection opportunities. This study was the first to survey awareness and knowledge of HPV in a population of Canadian Inuit.
Paul Brassard +2 more
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Curating Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit: Inuit Knowledge in the Qallunaat Art Museum
Art Journal, 2017Installation view, Ilippunga: I Have Learned, 2016, Brousseau Inuit Art Collection, Musee national des beaux-arts du Quebec (photograph by Daniel Drouin provided by MNBAQ) It is not only to make mo...
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Changes in weather persistence: Insight from Inuit knowledge
Global Environmental Change, 2010Abstract Since the 1990s, local residents from around the Arctic have reported changes in weather predictability. Examination of environmental measurements have not, until now, helped describe what the local inhabitants have been reporting, in part because prior studies did not focus directly on the persistence aspect of weather.
E. Weatherhead, S. Gearheard, R.G. Barry
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Inuit indigenous knowledge and science in the Arctic
2020Conflict between ways of knowing began when Inuit and European explorers first met. The conflict is sometimes subtle and quietly as well as savagely devastating to Inuit, who nevertheless endure. The conflict continues in the form of negotiations for land, sea, and resources; for political power; for housing and health care; for culture. The difference
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Inuit knowledge and environmental assessment in Nunavut, Canada
Sustainability Science, 2015Related climatic, socioeconomic and political pressures act on socio-ecological systems and drive change. Co-management boards such as the Nunavut impact review board (NIRB) in Canada’s north are linked, multi-level institutions that attempt to involve aboriginal stakeholders in decision making and collaborative learning through the application of ...
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Inuit knowledge and perceptions of the land-water interface
2007The Inuit of Kangiqsualujjuaq have maintained functional and spiritual connections with the landscape and waters of Arctic Quebec (Nunavik) for over four thousand years. While ethnographic studies about this ocean-going population have revealed their pragmatic relationships with the arctic milieu, less is known, however, about their perceptions of ...
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Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Inuit: Reflections on TEK Research and Ethics
ARCTIC, 1999The intimate knowledge that Inuit possess about the environment has figured prominently in North American Arctic research since at least the mid-1960s, when adherents of Julian Steward's adaptationist perspective essentially displaced the acculturation paradigm that until then had dominated Inuit studies.
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Final Report of the Inuit Bowhead Knowledge Study, Nunavut, Canada.
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Hay, Keith +4 more
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2015
The co-management of polar bears between scientists and the Inuit in Nunavut has been fraught with tension. This chapter explores the Inuit’s perspective by highlighting where the bear fits within Inuit cosmology and how it influences their relationships with the animal, with respect to hunting.
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The co-management of polar bears between scientists and the Inuit in Nunavut has been fraught with tension. This chapter explores the Inuit’s perspective by highlighting where the bear fits within Inuit cosmology and how it influences their relationships with the animal, with respect to hunting.
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