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A Way Home: Understanding the impact of human trafficking on Inuit women in Manitoba

open access: yesInternational 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
doaj   +1 more source

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

open access: yesArctic 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   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Inclusivity of Indigenous Knowledge Systems in Fisheries Management

open access: yesFish and Fisheries, Volume 26, Issue 4, Page 669-687, July 2025.
ABSTRACT Indigenous Peoples have developed knowledge systems that foster respectful and reciprocal relations between humans and other‐than‐human beings, supporting resilient ecosystems and societies. Despite the impacts of colonisation, Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IKS) endure in many parts of the world, and there is growing recognition that IKS can ...
Keshia Moffat   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Resisting and Claiming Digital Sovereignty: The Cases of Civil Society and Indigenous Groups

open access: yesPolicy &Internet, Volume 16, Issue 4, Page 739-749, December 2024.
ABSTRACT In this contribution to “Unthinking digital sovereignty,” we review some discourses and practical proposals that resist or challenge the digital sovereignty of “established states.” Our focus centers on two distinct sociopolitical groups engaged in such practices.
Stéphane Couture   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Inuit principals and the changing context of bilingual education in Nunavut [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Although positive policies and laws promote the Inuit language and Inuit qaujimajatuqangit (IQ) in all sectors of Nunavut society, including at all levels of Inuit schooling, many Nunavut schools are still struggling to overturn colonizing practices and ...
Flaherty, Elisapee   +13 more
core   +1 more source

Hands-on Heritage: 3D artifact replicas as tools for connecting Inuinnait youth with Elder Knowledge and archaeology

open access: yesArctic Science
This paper reports on the Hands-on Heritage project, a community-led initiative in Iqaluktuuttiaq (Cambridge Bay), Nunavut, developing archaeology-based educational kits for local schools.
Susannah D. Clinker, T. Max Friesen
doaj   +1 more source

Muskox (Ovibos moschatus) and Genomics in the Community (MAGIC): setting the stage for the co-development of genomics tools in an iconic Arctic mammal

open access: yesArctic Science
Muskox (Ovibos moschatus, Zimmermann 1780), or Umingmak (in Inuktitut), is a critical component of the terrestrial Arctic ecosystem. In many regions, muskoxen are key to Inuit food security and important to cultural identity, while also providing ...
S. Crookes   +23 more
doaj   +1 more source

Dietary plasticity and broad North Atlantic origins inferred from bulk and amino acid‐specific δ15N and δ13C favour killer whale range expansions into Arctic waters

open access: yesJournal of Animal Ecology, Volume 93, Issue 8, Page 1049-1064, August 2024.
This study is novel because it illustrates dietary plasticity and broad distribution base of different killer whale groups that seasonally visit the Canadian Arctic, favouring their expansion into newly available habitat with sea ice melt. Abstract Killer whales (Orcinus orca) occur seasonally in the eastern Canadian Arctic (ECA), where their range ...
Cory J. D. Matthews   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

When research relies on wildlife samples obtained from communities: a case study on local cultural contexts of beluga whale (Delphinapterus leucas) harvesting in Tuktoyaktuk, NT and Arviat, NU

open access: yesArctic Science
Each community across Inuit Nunaat has specific histories, geography, and cultural norms or practices when it comes to beluga (Delphinapterus leucas) harvesting.
E. Sudlovenick, V. Pokiak, L. Loseto
doaj   +1 more source

Diversifying Ecology by Bridging Western Science and Traditional Ecological Knowledge

open access: yes, 2019
The Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America, Volume 100, Issue 1, January 2019.
Cristina Eisenberg
wiley   +1 more source

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