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Qanuq ukua kanguit sunialiqpitigu? (What should we do with all of these geese?) Collaborative research to support wildlife co-management and Inuit self-determination

Arctic Science, 2020
Inuit living in Nunavut have harvested light geese and lived near goose colonies for generations. Inuit knowledge includes important information about light goose ecology and management that can inform co-management and enhance scientific research and ...
Dominique A. Henri, Natalie A. Carter, Aupaa Irkok, Shelton Nipisar, Lenny Emiktaut, Bobbie Saviakjuk, Salliq Project Management Committee, Arviat Project Management Committee, Gita J. Ljubicic, Paul A. Smith, Vicky Johnston   +10 more
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The Mittimatalik Siku Asijjipallianinga (Sea Ice Climate Atlas): How Inuit Knowledge, Earth Observations, and Sea Ice Charts Can Fill IPCC Climate Knowledge Gaps

Frontiers in Climate, 2021
The IPCC special report on the ocean and cryosphere in a changing climate (SROCC) highlights with high confidence that declining Arctic sea ice extents and increased ship-based transportation are impacting the livelihoods of Arctic Indigenous peoples ...
Katherine Wilson, Andrew Arreak, Sikumiut Committee, Trevor Bell, Gita Ljubicic   +4 more
doaj   +3 more sources

Reciprocal Inuit and Western research training: facilitating research capacity and community agency in Arctic research partnerships [PDF]

International Journal of Circumpolar Health, 2018
Engaging community partners to work as co-researchers and research assistants for research involving Inuit communities or regions helps to ensure the equitable recognition of community and researcher priorities, mutual trust and respect, participation by
Priscilla Ferrazzi, Peter Christie, Djenana Jalovcic, Shirley Tagalik, Alanna Grogan   +4 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Why, Immunologically, Housing-Related Fungi and Endotoxins (and Other Chronic Pro-Inflammatory Stressors) Risk Latent Tuberculosis Reactivation, Severe Asthma, and Translocating and Invasive Infections in Indigenous Communities in Canada. [PDF]

Am J Hum Biol
ABSTRACT Type 1/M1/TH1 and type 3/M1/TH17 pro‐inflammatory switches are risks for latent Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) reactivation and ongoing infection transmission. This paper considers the heavy toll of reactivation risk in Indigenous communities in Canada and the chronic, everyday pro‐inflammatory stressors connected with type 3/M1/TH17 immune ...
Burke S.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Curriculum Change in Nunavut: Towards Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit [PDF]

McGill Journal of Education, 2013
Between 1985 and the present, curriculum developers, educators and Elders in Nunavut have been working towards reconceptualization of curriculum to better meet the strengths and needs of Inuit students and to reflect, preserve, and revitalize Inuit worldview, language, and culture.
Oosten, Jarich, Laugrand, Frédéric
openaire   +5 more sources

Ontogenetic changes and sexual dimorphism in the cranium and mandible of the Atlantic walrus (Odobenus rosmarus rosmarus L.). [PDF]

Anat Rec (Hoboken)
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.
Dierickx K, Kersten O, van den Hurk Y, Frasier BA, Sabin R, Star B, Barrett JH.   +6 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Transfer of Inuit qaujimajatuqangit in modern Inuit society [PDF]

Études/Inuit/Studies, 2010
This paper explores the nature and transfer of Inuit knowledge. Using our experiences in setting up workshops with elders and youths in the past 10 years, we argue that the notion thatInuit qaujimajatuqangitcan be viewed as a corpus of knowledge that can be integrated into academic programs is necessarily flawed.
Laugrand, Frédéric, Oosten, Jarich
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In Pursuit of “A Good Life”: Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit and Inuit Women’s Movements in and out of Mining Work

ARCTIC, 2023
This article adopts a cross-cultural lens to understand why Inuit women enter and leave mining jobs in Inuit Nunangat (Inuit homelands), Canada, using Nunavik as a case study. Previous research has often depicted Indigenous women as either victims of mining or as anti-mining activists. Interviews with ten Nunavimmiut women (Inuit women of Nunavik), who
Mills, Suzanne, Simmons, Deborah, Williamson, Karla Jessen   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Rebuilding relations and countering erasure through community‐driven and owned science: A key tool to Inuit self‐determination and social transformations

Journal of Research in Science Teaching, Volume 60, Issue 8, Page 1697-1722, October 2023., 2023
Abstract This article explores the meaning of community‐driven and owned science in the context of an Inuit‐led land‐based program, the Young Hunters Program. It is the foundational program of the Arviat Aqqiumavvik Society, situated in Nunavut, Canada, a community‐led group dedicated to researching challenges to community wellness and designing and ...
Shirley Tagalik, Kukik Baker, Joe Karetak, Jrène Rahm   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Indigenous self-determination in cryospheric science: The Inuit-led Sikumik Qaujimajjuti (“tools to know how the ice is”) program in Inuit Nunangat, Canada

Frontiers in Earth Science, 2023
Inuit have lived along the shoreline of the frozen Arctic Ocean for centuries. Our wellbeing, culture, and identity are closely tied to safe and dependable ice access.
L. Beaulieu, A. Arreak, R. Holwell, S. Dicker, O. Qamanirq, L. Moorman, L. Moorman, K. Wilson, R. Segal, S. Crichton, T. Bell, T. Bell   +11 more
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