Proceedings, 14th Inuit Studies Conference, 11-15 August 2004, The Arctic Institute of North

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Proceedings
th
14 Inuit Studies Conference
11-15 August 2004
The Arctic Institute of North America
University of Calgary
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Compiled by
Robert O. van Everdingen
Conference Organizing Committee
Karla Jessen Williamson, Chair
Dr. Robert G. Williamson
Dr. Robert O. van Everdingen
AINA Board and Staff
University of Calgary Conference & Special Events
Sponsors:

Founding Organization:
Inuksiutiit Katimajiit Inc. is a non-profit Canadian corporation founded in 1974, whose objective is to
promote and disseminate knowledge about Inuit language, culture and society. Apart from various research
and publishing projects, it publishes Etudes/Inuit/Studies, an international scholarly journal now in its 28th
year, and sees to the organization of the Inuit Studies Conferences, held every two years since 1978.
Cover pictures
Background: A 1940s settlement of caribou-skin tents on the Barren Grounds. Photo by Canon James
Harold Webster. Photographic Archives of the Arctic Institute of North America.
Left inset: Sixteen-year-old Jane Kogliak at Itchen Lake, Coppermine region, in 1944. Photo by Canon
James Harold Webster. Photographic Archives of the Arctic Institute of North America.
Right inset: Kukilugak splitting a salmon for drying at Coppermine. Photo by Canon James Harold Webster.
Photographic Archives of the Arctic Institute of North America.
© 2005 The Arctic Instutute of North America
ISBN 1-894788-02-8
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CONTENTS
Program ......................................................................................................................................... ix
Welcome message
Karla J. Williamson, Conference Chair .......................................................................................... 1
Papers ............................................................................................................................................ 3
Creating a distributive learning project from a distance: Lessons learned
Collene Armstrong ........................................................................................................................... 5
Hans Egede Oqaluppalaarutaa: Hans Egede's Story
Anna Berge ...................................................................................................................................... 23
Taarnirmik unnuangujjutiqanngimmat “Darkness is not the cause of the night”:
An Inuit perspective from Canadian Eastern Arctic on the night
Guy Bordin ....................................................................................................................................... 37
Facilitating community-based research
Patricia Cochran .............................................................................................................................. 47
Belugas all the way down
Ted Dyck ........................................................................................................................................... 53
Wordless word: Quandaries when conveying content and significance
of Inupiaq transformation of Protestant beliefs and practices
Kristin Helweg Hanson ................................................................................................................... 65
The immoral ethic of conquest:
Inuit and Qallunaat reactions to the High Arctic murder trial of 1923.
Kenn Harper ..................................................................................................................................... 77
Multicultural engagement for learning and understanding
Carl Hild ........................................................................................................................................... 95
The Arctic Science and Technology Information System (ASTIS):
Communicating research results to Canadian Inuit
Lynda Howard and Ross Goodwin .................................................................................................109
Interlude at Winter Cove: Mid-19th Century Copper Inuit - European
intersocietal interaction, Walker Bay, Victoria Island
Donald S. Johnson ..........................................................................................................................117
Captured Words: Inuit creative voice in English for the twenty-first century
Michael P J Kennedy ...................................................................................................................... 137
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Culturally sensitive counselling with Inuit: An example of practical application of research
Marja Korhonen .............................................................................................................................. 153
“Whatever Floats Your Boat":
The University of Alaska Museum’s Nunamiut Eskimo Kayak Project
Angela Linn, Molly Lee and Roosevelt Paneak ............................................................................. 161
Aajiiqatigiingniq: Lessons learned from Nunavut’s Language Research Project
Ian Martin and Shirley Tagalik ......................................................................................................167
Global Wellness Initiatives:
Blending traditional scientific knowledge with community mentorship
Tina Melin, Kathleen Douglass, Cindy Lincoln, Sandra Sumrall-Lloyd and Carol Wean.......... 185
“My way to myself”: Preserving the healing power of voice in a community-based
participatory research project on Alaska Native pathways toward sobriety
Gerald V. Mohatt and S. Michelle Rasmus ....................................................................................211
Agentive and patientive verb bases in Iñupiaq
Tadataka Nagai ............................................................................................................................... 229
The endurance of Tangirnarmiut
Gordon Pullar ..................................................................................................................................241
Taking graduate courses to the Circumpolar North
Carolyn Redl .................................................................................................................................... 261
First Nations and the Canadian Legal System: Conflict management or dispute resolution?
Pierre Rousseau ...............................................................................................................................275
Inuit youth: The future of Inuktitut
Shelley Tulloch ................................................................................................................................ 285
Bringing Inuit and Arctic perspectives to the global stage: Lessons and opportunities
Sheila Watt-Cloutier ........................................................................................................................301
Productivity studies in Greenland:
Methodological problems and research design
Gorm Winther ..................................................................................................................................309
Abstracts .......................................................................................................................................337
Pigiarvik Video Project: Promoting Inuktitut through the use of video
Marni Amirault ............................................................................................................................... 339
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Illustrating Inuit wayfinding: Challenges and possibilities.
Claudio Aporta ................................................................................................................................ 340
Story Maker - Unipkaaqtualiurut
Collene Armstrong .......................................................................................................................... 341
The bridging of cultural barriers, communicating science in the Far North -
insights and lessons learned.
Gordon Balch and Susan Sang ...................................................................................................... 342
"Their Powerful Spirit: Inuit Women in a Century of Change"
Janet Mancini Billson .................................................................................................................... 343
Possibilities for future Inuit housing
Shawna Cochrane ........................................................................................................................... 344
Igloolik's art of community-based film-making
Norman Cohn and Zacharias Kunuk ............................................................................................ 345
Which home is it?
How bringing knowledge “home” to the Inuit changes what we bring back to our “home”
Béatrice Collignon .......................................................................................................................... 346
Aging, Inuit life stages, and rethinking culture change in the Canadian Arctic
Peter Collings .................................................................................................................................. 347
Longings of the heart: The women of St.Luke's Mission Hospital, Pangnirtung, 1930-1972
Emily E. S. Cowall Farrell ............................................................................................................. 348
Inuit historicities in transition: examples from Greenland and Nunavut
Yvon Csonka ................................................................................................................................... 349
History of Inuktitut Uqauttin Weeks through press coverage
Michelle Daveluy, Doreen Chow and Clint Westman .................................................................. 350
Rural development and community healing in Alaska
Dixie Masak Dayo .......................................................................................................................... 351
Labrador’s North Coast communities:
Where communication and environmental contaminants converge
Libby S. Dean and Christopher Furgal ........................................................................................ 352
How will Nunavut speak to the future? Changes to Nunavut's Official Languages Act
Jonathan Dewar and Eva Aariak ....................................................................................... .......... 353
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Language and identity after the advent of Nunavut: Some enlightened opinions
Louis-Jacques Dorais .................................................................................................................... 354
Telling science stories
Peter Evans ..................................................................................................................................... 355
Fast-Slow, Active-Passive, Wet-Dry, Hot-Cold:
Differences between Inuit and biomedical approaches to dealing with accidents and injuries
Chris Fletcher ................................................................................................................................. 356
ArcticNet: A newly funded Network of Centres of Excellence of Canada to conduct
integrated natural/health/social science study of the changing Candian coastal Arctic
Martin Fortier ................................................................................................................................ 357
Knowledge in Action : The Northern Contaminants Program as a model for
communicating on research with communities
Christopher Furgal ........................................................................................................................ 358
Nasivvik Centre for Inuit Health and Changing Environments
Christopher Furgal and Susie Bernier ......................................................................................... 359
When the weather is Uggianaqtuq:
Using interactive, multimedia technology to document and communicate Inuit knowledge
Shari Fox Gearheard ..................................................................................................................... 360
Taitsumanialukasak Kimmirumi: 1960-2000
Nelson H. H. Graburn .................................................................................................................... 361
Inuit oral history and the writing of Arctic Justice
Shelagh Grant ................................................................................................................................. 362
A regional approach to managing and communicating environment, health and nutrition
issues in the North: The Nunavik Nutrition and Health Committee
Minnie Grey, Christopher Furgal and S. Bruneau ....................................................................... 363
Inuit youth and identity change: The Nunavut Sivuniksavut experience
Morley Hanson ................................................................................................................................ 364
The Watkins Gospel Selections: The first book published in Inuktitut syllabics.
Kenn Harper .................................................................................................................................... 365
Reinterpreting Inuit children drawings of landscape to facilitate the transfer of Inuit
knowledge of the land.
Scott Heyes, Peter Jacobs and Pasha Puttayuk ............................................................................. 366
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Arts and crafts in Pangnirtung: A third-of-a-century review
H. G. Jones ...................................................................................................................................... 367
Inuit snow terms: Folk wisdom or linguistic fact?
Lawrence D. Kaplan ....................................................................................................................... 368
Transmitting results to Inuit: Identifying our audience and research constraints
Liesel Knall and Michelle Daveluy ................................................................................................ 369
The case of ITK: An organizational perspective on communicating to Inuit
Jose Amauja Kusugak .................................................................................................................... 370
"Negotiating Research Relationships" – A (draft) guide for researchers
Gita J. Laidler, Jamal Shirley and Scot Nickels ........................................................................... 371
Application of computer assisted linguistics in relation to Inuit language of Greenland
Per Langgård .................................................................................................................................. 372
"Then the bargaining began": Pangnirtung, the Museum, and the Dr. Jon A. Bildfell Collection
Kenneth R. Lister ............................................................................................................................ 373
Finding the right words: The Niqiit Avatittinni Committee
Eric Loring and Amy Caughey ....................................................................................................... 374
"Why don’t they get it?":
Talk of medicine as science, St Luke’s Hospital, Pangnirtung, 1933 –1938
Paule McNicoll and Frank J. Tester ............................................................................................. 375
Long-range transport of information: Contaminants perceptions in northern communities
Heather Myers and Christopher Furgal ........................................................................................ 376
Wordlist for the psychology working environment.in Greenland ic
Lisathe Møller ................................................................................................................................. 377
Animal stocks and sustainability:
Misunderstandings in the communication and expression of science in Greenland
Søren Stach Nielsen and Mark Nuttall .......................................................................................... 378
Greenland language policy review
Carl Chr. Olsen ............................................................................................................................... 380
Atuarfitsialak: Greenland's new school
Karl Kristian Olsen ......................................................................................................................... 381
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The criteria for anthropological science, as conceived in the Reports of the Fifth
Thule Expedition (1921-24).
Kennet Pedersen .............................................................................................................................. 382
Toponymy in Nunavut
Lynn Peplinski .................................................................................................................................383
The Anglican archival record: Acquisition and research potential
Teresa Reilly .................................................................................................................................... 384
Experiences with communicating research results in two research projects in Greenland
Jette Rygård ..................................................................................................................................... 385
Autochthony and governance:
Symbolic appropriation of the land among the Inuit of Nunavik and Nunavut
Bernard Saladin d'Anglure .............................................................................................................386
Arctic communities and environmental change: a participatory research approach
Barry Smit, James Ford, Gita Laidler and Johanna Wandel ....................................................... 387
What counts as Inuit subsistence? Cash, kinship, and obligation in the light of self-governance.
Pamela Stern ................................................................................................................................... 388
So many papers, so much time: Inuit social history, recording the writing and writing the record
Frank J. Tester and Paule McNicoll ............................................................................................. 389
"Our Use for the Land is Changing": Incorporating Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit into
environmental assessment for a proposed mineral development in Nunavut
Natasha Thorpe and Emily Angulalik ........................................................................................... 390
Modern Greenlandic art: Communication of research results on a Greenlandic Museum web-page
Jørgen Trondhjem ...........................................................................................................................391
St. Luke’s Hospital, Pangnirtung: Creation and context
Christopher Trott ............................................................................................................................ 392
Accessing stories through ethnographic film
Shelley Tulloch, Michelle Daveluy and John Houston ................................................................ 393
Greenlandic terminology
Bolatta Vahl .................................................................................................................................... 394
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