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Showing 1 to 20 of 80 for “"Inuit"”.
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Cracking the Glass Ceiling: Contemporary Inuit Drawing
… on curation, art history, and visual culture. Inuit art has moved from its origins as an art representing an imaginary Canadian identity and a yearning for a romantic pristine North to a practice that presents Inuit identity in their new reality. This socially conscious contemporary work that …
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Dimensions of ergativity in Inuit : theory and microvariation
… microvariation in the ergative system of the Inuit dialect continuum, as a window into the theoretical status of ergative alignment, argument licensing, and Agree. The empirical focus of this thesis is on the Inuit varieties in which the canonical erg-abs ergative construction has been …
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Biculturalism in post-secondary aboriginal education : an Inuit example
… a group of first semester post secondary (CEGEP) Inuit students living and studying outside their home communities in the Montreal area. It sheds light on their social and academic adaptation to Southern Canadian post secondary education and society by addressing their own characteristics at the …
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The social determinants of alcohol abuse in Canadian Inuit
… academic, political and community discourse. The Inuit have been described as being overrepresented in terms of numerous psychopathologies. However, it is alcohol abuse which is considered to be the most serious concern of the Inuit in the Canadian Arctic, both by themselves and by observers. …
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Photographic memory : Inuit representation in the work of Peter Pitseolak
This thesis examines the photographs of Inuit historian, camp leader and pioneer artist Peter Pitseolak (1902-1973) whose work in and around the community of Cape Dorset on the southwest coast of Baffin Island dates from the early 1940's until his death. Pitseolak's work coincided with a period of …
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Nunavut, A Creation Story. The Inuit Movement in Canada's Newest Territory
… process (1963-1993) through which the Inuit of Nunavut transformed themselves from being a marginalized population with few recognized rights in Canada to becoming the overwhelmingly dominant voice in a territorial government, with strong rights over their own lands and waters. In this …
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Toxoplasma gondii in wildlife traditionnally harvested by Inuit of Nunavik, Canada
For centuries, Inuit have consumed wildlife. For decades, high levels of Inuit exposure to Toxoplasma gondii have been reported in Nunavik, Canada. This is puzzling given the rare occurrence of felids, the only definitive host for T. gondii, throughout this region. The handling and/or consumption …
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Utopia on trial : perceptions of Canadian government experiments with Inuit relocation
… ambitious experimental programme of resettling Inuit (Eskimos) in unoecupied regions of the Aretie, sometimes far to the north of their original homelands. In this dissertation I analyze the Canadian government's Inuit reloeation policies during the years 1950-59, by exmaining two princpal case …
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Inuit and scientific ways of knowing and seeing the Arctic landscape
This work explores traditional Inuit and Western scientific ways of knowing and seeing the Arctic through a number of cultural expressions of landscape. Inuit and Western perceptions of the Arctic are analysed by examining a series of thematic and cognitive 'maps', drawings and satellite imagery. …
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Environmental and health factors affecting conductive hearing loss in Inuit children
Item marked as restricted to the 'UIUC Users [automated]' Group (id=2) by Howard Ding (hding2@illinois.edu) on 2011-05-07T15:03:49Z Item is restricted indefinitely.
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Inuit and Iroquois and Inca, Oh My: Societal Formation in the Americas
… examines the most probable ways in which the Inuit, Iroquois, and Inca societies might have developed without European influence. By applying anthropological political evolutionary theory to the three case studies, probable likelihoods are considered and analyzed. The Inuit were a stable …
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Inuit Harvesting Strategies in the Canadian Arctic and Implications for Wildlife Management
… processes. Two annual cycles of the Netsilik Inuit are discussed and examined in a formal theory model to analyse what changes and effects occurred when the rifle was introduced to their subsistence economy. The evidence supporting the Pleistocene overkill theory and the claim that hunters …
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Assessing Thule Inuit impacts on High Arctic lakes and ponds : a paleolimnological approach
… and Bathurst Island were impacted by Thule Inuit whalers, whose activities altered nutrient levels in nearby ponds. Two Thule Inuit whaling sites were selected based on input from several archaeologists, to ensure good coverage of the Thule geographic range and proximity to freshwater ponds. …
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AN ANALYSIS OF ALBERTA'S FIRST NATIONS, METIS, AND INUIT SCHOOL-COMMUNITY LEARNING ENVIRONMENT PROJECT
The First Nations, Métis, and Inuit School-Community Learning Environment Project was one of the programs through which the Aboriginal Branch of Alberta Education attempted to increase the academic success rate of First Nation, Métis, and Inuit students. Sixteen school jurisdictions in Alberta were …
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Teachers' Perceptions of First Nations, Metis and Inuit Students in Alberta Public School Classrooms
<p> This qualitative inquiry explored a grounded theory of leadership by examining the perceptions of classroom teachers regarding the First Nations students in their schools. The sample came from three schools in Southern Alberta Canada. Included, were 15 teachers of grades one through nine. Data …
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AN ANALYSIS OF ALBERTA'S FIRST NATIONS, METIS, AND INUIT SCHOOL-COMMUNITY LEARNING ENVIRONMENT PROJECT
The First Nations, Métis, and Inuit School-Community Learning Environment Project was one of the programs through which the Aboriginal Branch of Alberta Education attempted to increase the academic success rate of First Nation, Métis, and Inuit students. Sixteen school jurisdictions in Alberta were …
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Teachers' Perceptions of First Nations, Metis and Inuit Students in Alberta Public School Classrooms
<p> This qualitative inquiry explored a grounded theory of leadership by examining the perceptions of classroom teachers regarding the First Nations students in their schools. The sample came from three schools in Southern Alberta Canada. Included, were 15 teachers of grades one through nine. Data …
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The Impact of Welfare Colonialism on Inuit Responses to Climate Change in Qikiqtani, Canada
… in the Arctic poses large challenges for Inuit who live there and whilst climate vulnerability research is effective on many levels, this approach has been critiqued for overlooking the impacts of colonialism. Therefore, a niche exists that investigates how the ongoing issues of welfare …
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