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Giving birth in a good way when it must take place away from home: Participatory research into visions of Inuit families and their Montreal‐based medical providers

Birth, Volume 50, Issue 4, Page 781-788, December 2023., 2023
Abstract Background Transferring pregnant women out of their communities for childbirth continues to affect Inuit women living in Nunavik—Inuit territory in Northern Quebec. With estimates of maternal evacuation rates in the region between 14% and 33%, we examine how to support culturally safe birth for Inuit families when birth must take place away ...
Hilah Silver, Sophie Tukalak, Iván Sarmiento, Richard Budgell, Anne Cockcroft, Zoua M. Vang, Neil Andersson   +6 more
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L'Enquête nationale sur les femmes et les filles autochtones disparues et assassinées au Canada: Explorer la relation entre l'existence de critiques externes et la prise de parole des témoins lors des audiences communautaires

Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie, Volume 60, Issue 4, Page 708-740, November 2023., 2023
Abstract Faced with the alarming rates of disappearances and murders of Indigenous women, girls and 2SLGBTQQIA+ people in Canada and in response to the demands of victims' families and Indigenous women's associations, the Canadian government set up the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (2016–2019).
Audrey Rousseau, Louis Chartrand
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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
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Adolescences et identité en territoire inuit : introspections filmées

Espace populations sociétés, 2021
Inuit youth today faces many challenges. They live in areas integrated into globalization, which are nevertheless located on the fringes of the ecumene, grappling with geographic isolation and its consequences in terms of mobility, access to various ...
Fabienne Joliet, Laine Chanteloup, Thora Herrmann   +2 more
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Anthropogenic Nest Cavities Used by Snow Buntings in an Urban Arctic Landscape. [PDF]

Ecol Evol
In this study, we document extensive use of anthropogenic structures for nesting by a holarctic‐breeding songbird, the Snow Bunting, in the rapidly urbanizing town of Iqaluit, Nunavut. Snow Buntings typically nest in natural rock crevices, but in town they nested in buildings, human‐constructed rock piles, vents, and even metal pipes.
Simard-Provençal S, Rokitnicki P, Golat R, Vézina F, Love OP, McKinnon EA.   +5 more
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Collaboration between local Indigenous and visiting non‐Indigenous researchers: Practical challenges and insights from a long‐term environmental monitoring program in the Canadian Arctic

Ecological Solutions and Evidence, Volume 4, Issue 3, July–September 2023., 2023
Globally, there is a growing appreciation of the benefits of collaborations between local Indigenous and visiting non‐Indigenous researchers in the study of wildlife populations. In a multi‐decadal collaborative monitoring program of coastal sea ducks in the eastern Canadian Arctic, hiring local Inuit research partners was essential to the program's ...
Samuel Richard, H. Grant Gilchrist, Holly L. Hennin, Vivian M. Nguyen   +3 more
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Insights from the remote co‐creation of an Indigenous knowledge questionnaire about aquatic ecosystems in Kinngait, Nunavut

Ecological Solutions and Evidence, Volume 4, Issue 2, April–June 2023., 2023
There is growing interest in co‐developing research projects to more fully address the priorities of Indigenous communities. The process of remotely co‐creating a questionnaire to compile Indigenous knowledge with a community in the Canadian Arctic is described here.
Laurissa R. Christie, Allison K. Drake, Adam Perkovic, Aiviq Hunters and Trappers Association, Ooloosie Manning, Sheojuk Peter, Pudloo Qiatsuq, Steven M. Alexander, Vivian M. Nguyen, Karen M. Dunmall   +9 more
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Setting a foundation for Indigenous knowledge systems‐guided boreal caribou (tǫdzı) conservation planning in the Western Boreal Region of Canada: A systematic map protocol

Ecological Solutions and Evidence, Volume 4, Issue 1, January–March 2023., 2023
The current protocol establishes the research methodologies for the systematic map that will examine past caribou research to identify best practices of previous projects that have aimed to bridge knowledge systems between Indigenous knowledge and Western science. The results found from the systematic map will help inform boreal caribou research in the
Jacquelyn Saturno, Matthew Boeckner, Samuel Haché, James Hodson, Emily McAuley, Eliot McIntire, Tatiane Micheletti, Jean Polfus, Sophie Sliwa, Trevor Teed, Alana R. Westwood   +10 more
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Evaluation of the acceptability of a CD-Rom as a health promotion tool for Inuit in Ottawa [PDF]

International Journal of Circumpolar Health, 2013
Background. There are few health promotion tools for urban Inuit, and there is a specific dearth of evaluations on such tools. Objective. The current study used a community-specific approach in the evaluation of a health promotion tool, based on an urban
Kelly E. McShane, Janet K. Smylie, Paul D. Hastings, Conrad Prince, Tungasuvvingat Inuit Family Health Team, Connie Siedule   +5 more
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Melioristic genealogies and Indigenous philosophies

The Philosophical Forum, Volume 53, Issue 4, Page 209-226, Winter 2022., 2022
Abstract According to Mary Midgley, philosophy is like plumbing: like the invisible entrails of an elaborate plumbing system, philosophical ideas respond to basic needs that are fundamental to human life. Melioristic projects in philosophy attempt to fix or reroute this plumbing.
Helen De Cruz, Johan De Smedt
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