Traditions, Traps and Trends: Transfer of Knowledge in Arctic Regions by Jarich Oosten & Barbara Helen Miller

Author:Jarich Oosten & Barbara Helen Miller [Oosten, Jarich & Miller, Barbara Helen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Education, Bilingual Education, Social Science, Anthropology, Cultural & Social, Regional Studies
ISBN: 9781772123722
Google: admVDwAAQBAJ
Publisher: University of Alberta
Published: 2018-07-23T00:57:17.203000+00:00

Notes

1. This chapter is partly based on Kim van Dam, “A Place Called Nunavut: Multiple Identities for a New Region” (PHD dissertation, University of Groningen, 2008). A draft version of this chapter was presented at the Inuit Studies Conference in Washington in 2012, and the American Indian Workshop in Leiden in 2014.

2. S. Heyes and P. Jacobs, “Losing Place: Diminishing Traditional Knowledge of the Arctic Coastal Landscape,” in F. Vanclay, M. Higgings and A. Blackshaw, Making Sense of Place: Exploring Concepts and Expressions of Place through Different Senses and Lenses (Canberra: National Museum of Australia, 2008), 137.

3. E. Searles, “Placing Identity: Town, Land, and Authenticity in Nunavut, Canada,” Acta Borealia: A Nordic Journal of Circumpolar Societies 27, no. 2 (2010): 151–66.

4. N. Stuckenberger, Community at Play: Social and Religious Dynamics in the Modern Inuit Community of Qikiqtarjuaq (Amsterdam: Rozenberg Publishers, 2005), 132.

5. Statistics Canada, 2006 Census of Population (Ottawa: n.p., 2006). Although more recent Census data is available, this has not been used for reasons of comparison with other data used in this chapter.

6. Powerpoint presentation entitled “Sustainable Development’s Inuit qaujimanituqangit,” obtained from the Nunavut Legislative Assembly Library. The Department of Sustainable Development proposed to use qaujimanituqangit instead of qaujimajatugangit.

7. B. Collignon “Inuit Place Names and Sense of Place,” in P. Stern and L. Stevenson, Critical Inuit Studies: An Anthology of Contemporary Arctic Ethnography (Lincoln/London: University of Nebraska Press, 2006), 200.

8. M. Nuttall, Arctic Homeland: Kinship, Community and Development in Northwest Greenland (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1992), 54.

9. H.E. McGregor, “Curriculum Change in Nunavut: Towards Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit.” McGill Journal of Education 47, no. 3 (Fall 2012), 290.

10. Heyes and Jacobs, “Losing Place,” 151.

11. Ibid., 137.

12. Cf. AHDR (Arctic Human Development Report), 2004.

13. Elisapee Ootoova in J. Oosten and F. Laugrand (eds.), Introduction (Iqaluit: Nunavut Arctic College, 1999), 26.

14. Annemiek Logtmeijer and Harm de Muinck, Faculty of Spatial Sciences, University of Groningen.

15. M. Ferguson and M. Ferguson, “Pond Inlet,” in M. Soublière (ed.), The Nunavut Handbook: Travelling Canada’s Arctic (Iqaluit: Nortext Multimedia Iqaluit, 1998).

16. Tunnurirmiut is spelled in various ways (e.g., Tununirmiut or Tununermiut).

17. J. Bennett and S. Rowley, Uqalurait: An Oral History of Nunavut (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2004), 339.

18. J. Matthiasson, Living on the Land: Change among the Inuit of Baffin Island (New York: Broadview, 1996), 26.

19. Matthiasson, Living on the Land, 159.

20. J. Hicks and G. White, “Nunavut: Inuit Self-determination through a Land Claim and Public Government?” In J. Dahl, J. Hicks and P. Jull (eds.), Nunavut Inuit Regain Control of Their Lands and Their Lives. IWGIA Document No. 12 (Copenhagen: IWGIA, 2000), 47.

21. Matthiasson, Living on the Land, 55.

22. In Canada, Nunavut’s settlements—the geographical units—are commonly referred to as “communities.” In this chapter, both “community” and “settlement” have been used to refer to the place.

23. Pond Inlet’s population is young (Statistics Canada, Census 2006). In 2006, about 58 per cent (765 persons) in Pond Inlet were younger than 25. The group of young adolescents aged between 15 and 24 consisted of 280 persons. The majority of

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