scholarly journals Law and the Thin Veneer of Civilization

1969 ◽  
pp. 38
Author(s):  
Justice W. G. Morrow
Keyword(s):  
Northwest Territories ◽  
Law And Society ◽  
Canadian Society ◽  
Native Culture ◽  
The North ◽  
Canadian Law ◽  
Northwest Territory ◽  
Physical Attributes ◽  
Thin Veneer

Mr. Justice Morrow employs his sympathetic understanding of the North and it's native inhabitants in revealing discussion of the sudden, ap parent metamorphosis which has occurred as result of the recent advent of Canadian law and society in the Northwest Territories. The author con tends that although the physical attributes of Canadian society have been effectively superimposed upon the native culture, the experience of the Northwest Territory Courts suggests that the effect is merely superficial. Although uniformity of Canadian law is desirable, Mr. Justice Morrow argues that it is difficult and perhaps meaningless to achieve such uniformity through the arbitrary application of laws and penalties which are foreign to time honored native customs and cultures.

scholarly journals Creating Able Human Beings: Social Studies Education in the Northwest Territories and Nunavut, 1969 to the Present

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine A. McGregor
Keyword(s):  
Social Studies ◽  
Northwest Territories ◽  
Culturally Responsive ◽  
Social Studies Education ◽  
Aboriginal Peoples ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Mandated Curriculum ◽  
The North ◽  
The People ◽  
Integrated Curricula

RésuméAprès le transfert de responsabilité en matière d’éducation dans le nord du Canada par le gouvernement fédéral aux Territoires du Nord-Ouest (TNO) en 1969-1970, le département d’Éducation des Territoires rend, dès lors, obligatoire un programme scolaire axé sur les identités linguistiques et culturelles des élèves dénés et inuits afin de contrer les approches intentionnellement assimilatrices des écoles fédérales antérieures, pensionnats religieux ou écoles publiques. Cet article s’intéresse à l’aspect social des programmes d’études durant les trente années suivantes dans les TNO et de 1999 à 2013 pour le Nunavut. Après consultation de documents pertinents, l’auteure soutient que les programmes d’études instaurés dans le Nord durant cette période de 45 ans reposaient sur la culture autochtone (culturally responsive), mais sans grande conviction. Elle suggère également un nouveau terme « culturally founded education » à savoir une éducation authentiquement autochtone en référence à l’intégration des programmes développés par les peuples aborigènes du Nord d’après leurs propres perspectives culturelles. La conclusion propose des actions concrètes pour garantir que les programmes d’études soient en lien avec la population et préparent adéquatement les élèves à s’impliquer d’une manière significative dans le monde complexe du XXIe siècle. Abstract Upon transfer of responsibility for schooling in Canada’s north from the federal government to the Northwest Territories in 1969-70, the territorial Department of Education immediately mandated curriculum whose central focus was on Dene and Inuit students’ cultural and linguistic identities, in order to counteract the intentionally assimilationist approaches of previous federal and church residential and day schools. This article examines social studies curricula over the next 30 years in the NWT, and from 1999-2013 in Nunavut. Reviewing relevant documents, I argue that social studies curricula developed in the north during these 45 years have featured culturally responsive education, but did not accomplish this consistently. I also suggest a new term, culturally founded education, to refer to integrated curricula developed by northern Aboriginal peoples from their own cultural perspectives. The conclusion recommends future actions to ensure social studies education continues to reflect the people it serves and prepares students to make meaningful contributions in the complex world of the twenty-first century.

Paleomagnetism of the Great Slave Supergroup, Northwest Territories, Canada: the Stark Formation

1976 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 563-578 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. K. Bingham ◽  
M. E. Evans
Keyword(s):  
Northwest Territories ◽  
North American ◽  
Geomagnetic Field ◽  
Pole Position ◽  
The West ◽  
Stratigraphic Sequence ◽  
Polar Wander ◽  
Early Proterozoic ◽  
The North ◽  
Polarity Reversals

Paleomagnetic results from 55 sampling sites throughout the Stark Formation are reported. The known stratigraphic sequence of these sites enables the behaviour of the geomagnetic field in these remote times (1750 m.y.) to be elucidated. Two polarity reversals are identified and these represent potentially useful correlative features in strata devoid of index fossils. One of these is investigated in detail and indicates that behaviour of the geomagnetic field during polarity reversals was essentially the same in the early Proterozoic as it has been over the last few million years. The pole position (145°W, 15°S, dp = 3.5, dm = 6.9) lies far to the west of that anticipated from earlier results, implying further complexity of the North American polar wander curve. Possible alternatives to this added complexity are discussed.

scholarly journals Every Whichway: New Directions for Canadian Socio-Legal Research.

1986 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 1-4 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. W. Arthurs
Keyword(s):  
Law And Society ◽  
Special Significance ◽  
Legal Research ◽  
The Public ◽  
Canadian Law ◽  
New Directions ◽  
Systematic Compilation ◽  
Research And Education ◽  
New Research ◽  
Consultative Group

Barely three years ago, as chairman of the SSHRC's Consultative Group on Research and Education in Law, I released a report entitled Law and Learning. This report — in its diagnosis hardly more than a systematic compilation and empirical verification of “what we knew but could not tell” — contained a series of recommendations for the invigoration of Canadian legal scholarship. Several of these recommendations related to the need to diversify the types of legal research being conducted, to strengthen the research community by the development of networks and centres of activity, and to communicate the results of new research endeavours to relevant professional audiences, as well as to the public. For me, therefore, the establishment of the Canadian Law and Society Association and the publication of the Canadian Journal of Law and Society are events of special significance. I am pleased — indeed flattered — to be involved in these new and important enterprises, albeit in a largely symbolic way. My pleasure is only enhanced by being afforded both a platform for pontification (the Editor has absolved me from the obligation to provide footnotes), and a collective script to which I can add what amounts to a postscript to our report.

The significance of antibody to the psittacosis–L.G.V. group antigen

1969 ◽  
Vol 15 (10) ◽  
pp. 1173-1178
Author(s):  
H. Wyman ◽  
C. Rigby ◽  
J. C. Wilt ◽  
J. A. Hildes
Keyword(s):  
Northwest Territories ◽  
Specific Antigen ◽  
Egg Yolk ◽  
Serum Samples ◽  
The North ◽  
Antigen Present ◽  
High Incidence ◽  
Causative Agents ◽  
Specific Antigens ◽  
Animal Reservoirs

Antibody to the psittacosis–lymphogranuloma venereum (psittacosis–L.G.V.) group antigen was present in 88% of serum samples collected in 1967 from 100 persons at Eskimo Point, Northwest Territories (N.W.T.), thus confirming previous reports of a high incidence of this antibody in Northern residents. The present study to determine the significance of these antibodies, excluded the possibility that they had been formed in response to a heterophile antigen present in bacteria, rickettsia, or egg yolk, While the sera of Manitobans that reacted with the group antigen also reacted with a specially prepared specific antigen of psittacosis, none of the Eskimo sera that reacted with the group antigen reacted with the specific antigens prepared from psittacosis or meningopneumonitis. The antibody against the group antigen was totally adsorbed with live meningopneumonitis group antigen. These findings, plus the fact that some chlamydial diseases do not occur in the North, and that the animal reservoirs of other chlamydia do not exist in the North, limit the possible causative agents of these antibodies to ornithosis, human pneumonitis, and animal pneumonitis. Evidence suggests that a unique, endemic chlamydial agent stimulated the production of these antibodies; further work will be required to determine which particular member of the chlamydial group is responsible, and to demonstrate its reservoir.

Diversity patterns in subarctic stream benthic invertebrate assemblages from the Sahtu Settlement Area, Northwest Territories, Canada

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Vinke ◽  
A.S. Medeiros ◽  
D.J. Giberson
Keyword(s):  
Northwest Territories ◽  
Woody Debris ◽  
Benthic Invertebrate ◽  
Taxonomic Composition ◽  
Sampling Effort ◽  
Generic Level ◽  
Family Diversity ◽  
The North ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
Invertebrate Assemblages

Benthic invertebrate assemblages were studied across four streams in the Sahtu Settlement Region of the Northwest Territories between July 2010 and October 2011 to provide information on biotic composition and associations with habitat and temporal factors. Overall diversity was similar for all streams, although taxonomic composition varied among the streams. Within streams, richness was highest in riffle and snag (woody debris) habitats and lowest in pools and leafpacks. A substantial portion of taxa (∼25%) would have been missed if only riffles had been sampled. Nearly 88% of individuals belonged to eight taxa, with >60% of individuals found in only two families (Chironomidae and Baetidae). While high within-family diversity was observed, samples were also characterized by large numbers of rare taxa, with large temporal differences in abundances. Future benthic assessments in northern streams would benefit from increased sampling effort to ensure representative samples for comparing streams or sites and approaches that target dominant families in the north (e.g., Chironomidae), which can provide a great deal of information on biodiversity when examined at the generic level. Likewise, further analysis of the seasonal compositional turnover for some assemblages may be necessary to distinguish anthropogenic responses from natural variability.

Mosses of the Nahanni and Liard ranges area, southwestern Northwest Territories

1979 ◽  
Vol 57 (3) ◽  
pp. 269-283 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dale H. Vitt ◽  
Diana G. Horton
Keyword(s):  
Northwest Territories ◽  
North American ◽  
Rocky Mountains ◽  
National Park ◽  
Small Area ◽  
New Records ◽  
The South ◽  
Moss Species ◽  
Mountain Ranges ◽  
The North

The Nahanni and Liard mountain ranges are located at about 61° N latitude and 122° W longitude. They form the easternmost slopes of the Rocky Mountains and lie just east of Nahanni National Park in the southwestern corner of the District of Mackenzie, Northwest Territories. The moss flora of the area is rich in the number of taxa; 207 species and two varieties are reported from this relatively small area. Of these, 53 species are new records for the South Nahanni region. A number of rare or disjunct bryophyte species are found in the area. Moss species which are either disjunct or occur at the edge of their range include Arctoa fulvella (Dicks.) B.S.G., Aulacomnium acuminatum (Lindb. & Arn.) Kindb., Andreaeobryum macrosporum Steere & B. Murray, Geheebia gigantea (Funck) Boul., Isopterygiopsis muelleriana (Schimp.) Iwats., Mnium spinosum (Voit) Schwaegr., Psilopilum cavifolium (Wils.) Hagen, Rhabdoweisia crispata (With.) Lindb., Seligeria calcarea (Hedw.) B.S.G., S. polaris Berggr., Trematodon brevicollis Hornsch., and Trichostomum arcticum Kaal. The North American distribution of these species is mapped. Herbertus stramineus (Dum.) Trev., Metacalypogeia schusterana Hatt. & Mizut., Scapania crassiretis Bryhn, and S. simmonsii Bryhn & Kaal. are four hepatic species of phytogeographic interest.

‘Take it from the top’: northern conceptions about identity in the western Arctic and beyond

Polar Record ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 222-229 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suzanne Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Northwest Territories ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
The South ◽  
Research Project ◽  
The North ◽  
The World ◽  
Western Arctic ◽  
Student Researchers

ABSTRACTDuring the last decades the Arctic has become more central on the world stage. However, despite increased interest how much do people really know about ‘the north’ and the ‘northern people’? The aim of this article is to chronicle a research project by students, who saw themselves as northerners, that used video to capture northerners’ definitions of the north, as well as asking the community about what they wanted newcomers and southern Canada to know about the north. The group also embarked on a new discipline of northerners studying ‘the south’. 43 students interviewed 95 people in the Beaufort Delta, Northwest Territories and 25 people in Edmonton, Alberta. The student researchers’ responses and that of their interviewees are some of the most direct messages on how northerners view their identity and that of their fellow southern Canadians. This project created a video tool to share, educate, and commence a dialogue between people about the north straight from the source.

Progress of mineral development in northern Canada

Polar Record ◽  
1965 ◽  
Vol 12 (81) ◽  
pp. 683-702
Author(s):  
Amil Dubnie ◽  
W. Keith Buck
Keyword(s):  
Northwest Territories ◽  
Direct Effect ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Northern Canada ◽  
The North ◽  
Mineral Development ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Small Parts

For the purpose of this paper, northern Canada comprises all the territory north of lat 60° N. Included in this area of approximately 1500000 square miles are all of Yukon and Northwest Territories and small parts of Quebec and Labrador. Although the area is clearly defined by latitude, the subject matter of this paper also takes into account those developments farther south which have a direct effect upon the north.

Changing Perceptions of Industrial Development in the North

1975 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-33
Author(s):  
Bruce Cox
Keyword(s):  
Natural Gas ◽  
Northwest Territories ◽  
Industrial Development ◽  
Social Background ◽  
Gas Pipeline ◽  
Court Cases ◽  
Canadian Government ◽  
Natural Gas Pipeline ◽  
The North ◽  
River Region

This is a brief discussion of the issues at stake in the industrial development of the Mackenzie River region of Canada's North. In particular the essay focuses on the growing controversy surrounding a proposed natural gas pipeline from Alaska to Chicago via the Mackenzie and Northern Yukon. Native organizations in the Yukon and the Northwest Territories have begun to formulate their own policies toward industrial development—including pipelines—in their region. As might be expected, native views on the future of the North differ in important respects from policies formulated by the Canadian government or by international petroleum corporations. Recent court cases in the Northwest Territories and elsewhere will be examined in detail, with some consideration of their historical and social background, for evidence of changing native perceptions of northern development.

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