CANADA : Aklavik, northwest territories, district of Mackenzie / by Surveys and Mapping Branch. Department of Mines and Technical Surveys

Marketing Adult Education for Megaprojects in the Northwest Territories by Andrew P. Hodgkins

“…This empirical research inquiry examines the influence that the current economic climate - driven by the extraction of non-renewable resources currently underway in the Northwest Territories - is having on adult education policy and program development. …”
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Dene traditional knowledge about caribou cycles in the Northwest Territories by Danny Beaulieu

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Asymmetry in antlers of barren-ground caribou, Northwest Territories, Canada by Frank L. Miller

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Determining Freshwater Lake Communities’ Vulnerability to Snowstorms in the Northwest Territories by Janine A. Baijnath-Rodino, Amaia Albizua, Laxmi Sushama, Elena Bennett, Brian E. Robinson

“…This study applies a framework to quantitatively determine the multiple impacts of snowstorms by calculating the livelihood vulnerability index (LVI) for four exposed freshwater lake communities in Canada’s Northwest Territories using three contributing factors (exposure, sensitivity, and adaptive capacity). …”
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Prioritising indigenous representations of geopower: the case of Tulita, Northwest Territories, Canada by Perombelon, B

“…Through empirical data collected during a period of five months of fieldwork undertaken between October 2014 and March 2015, it investigates the ways through which an Indigenous community of the Canadian Arctic, Tulita (located in the Northwest Territories’ Sahtu region) represents geopower. …”

Climatic drivers of limnological change in Iqallukvik Lake, Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories, Canada by Sorin-Alexandru Gruia, Joshua R. Thienpont, Kristen A. Coleman, Jennifer B. Korosi

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PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANTS IN THE LIVERS OF MOOSE HARVESTED IN THE SOUTHERN NORTHWEST TERRITORIES, CANADA by Nicholas C. Larter, Derek Muir, Xiaowa Wang, Danny G. Allaire, Allicia Kelly, Karl Cox

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Envisioning Indigenous and biomedical healthcare collaboration at Stanton Territorial Hospital, Northwest Territories by Sophie Isabelle Grace Roher, Paul Andrew, Susan Chatwood, Kimberly Fairman, Tracey Galloway, Angela Mashford-Pringle, Jennifer L. Gibson

“…ABSTRACTBackground: To improve the quality of care for Indigenous patients, local Indigenous leaders in the Northwest Territories, Canada have called for more culturally responsive models for Indigenous and biomedical healthcare collaboration at Stanton Territorial Hospital.Objective: This study examined how Indigenous patients and biomedical healthcare providers envision Indigenous healing practices working successfully with biomedical hospital care at Stanton Territorial Hospital.Methods: We carried out a qualitative study from May 2018 – June 2022. …”
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Drivers of tall shrub proliferation adjacent to the Dempster Highway, Northwest Territories, Canada by Emily A Cameron, Trevor C Lantz

“…In this study we investigated the impact of road construction and maintenance on vegetation structure and biomass along the Dempster Highway where it crosses the Peel Plateau in the Northwest Territories. To explore drivers of tall shrub proliferation and to quantify shrub proliferation in this region of continuous permafrost, greyscale air photos (1975) and Quickbird satellite imagery (2008) were used to map landcover change within two 0.6 km ^2 belts next to the road and two 0.6 km ^2 belts 500 m away from the road. …”
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Hydrometeorological data from Baker Creek Research Watershed, Northwest Territories, Canada by C. Spence, N. Hedstrom

“…Baker Creek drains water from 155 km² of subarctic Canadian Shield terrain in Canada's Northwest Territories. half-hourly hydrometeorological data were collected each year, at least from April to October, from representative locations, including exposed Precambrian bedrock ridges, peatlands, open black spruce forest and lakes. …”
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Patient healthcare experiences in the Northwest Territories, Canada: an analysis of news media articles by Rhiannon Cooper, Nathaniel J. Pollock, Zander Affleck, Laura Bain, Nanna Lund Hansen, Kelsey Robertson, Susan Chatwood

“…The objective of this study was to examine the characteristics of patient healthcare experiences as reported through news media in the Northwest Territories. We used a case series design to examine patient healthcare experiences reported in news media articles. …”
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Dietary quality and adequacy among Aboriginal alcohol consumers in the Northwest Territories, Canada by Sangita Sharma, André Corriveau, Stacey E. Rittmueller

“…Objectives: The present study aimed to assess dietary adequacy and quality among Inuvialuit alcohol consumers and non-consumers in the Northwest Territories (NWT), Canada. Study design: Cross-sectional study. …”
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Retrospective Comparison of the Occurrence and Abundance of Rusty Blackbird in the Mackenzie Valley, Northwest Territories by Craig S. Machtans, Steven L. Van Wilgenburg, Lindsay A. Armer, Keith A. Hobson

“…Forty-five locations with historical survey data from the 1970s in the Mackenzie Valley, Northwest Territories, Canada were revisited in 2006 to check for changes in the occurrence or abundance of Rusty Blackbird. …”
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Polish Revolt of 1863 in Destinies of Old Believers of the Northwest Territory of Russian Empire by A Y Bendin

“…The special attention is paid to the position of Old Believers of Northwest Territory who during the Polish revolt in 1863 acted on the side of Russia. …”
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Implementation of human biomonitoring in the Dehcho region of the Northwest Territories, Canada (2016–2017) by Mylène Ratelle, Kelly Skinner, Matthew J. Laird, Shannon Majowicz, Danielle Brandow, Sara Packull-McCormick, Michèle Bouchard, Denis Dieme, Ken D. Stark, Juan Jose Aristizabal Henao, Rhona Hanning, Brian D. Laird

“…Conclusion This project completed in the Mackenzie Valley of the Northwest Territories fills a data gap across other biomonitoring studies in Canada as it integrates community results, will support stakeholders in the development of public health strategies, and will inform environmental health issue prioritization.…”
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Examining DNA fingerprinting as an epidemiology tool in the tuberculosis program in the Northwest Territories, Canada by Cheryl Case, Kami Kandola, Linda Chui, Vincent Li, Nancy Nix, Rhonda Johnson

“…Tuberculosis (TB) is an important public health problem in the Northwest Territories (NWT), particularly among Canadian Aboriginal people. …”
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Nature Prescriptions and Indigenous Peoples: A Qualitative Inquiry in the Northwest Territories, Canada by Redvers, N, Hartmann-Boyce, J, Tonkin-Crine, S

“…We therefore sought to answer the following question: What are circumpolar-based physicians’ and Indigenous Elders’ views on nature prescribing in the Northwest Territories, Canada? We carried out thirteen semi-structured interviews with physicians between May 2022 and March 2023, and one sharing circle with Indigenous Elders in February 2023. …”

Dietary Intakes of Traditional Foods for Dene/Métis in the Dehcho and Sahtú Regions of the Northwest Territories by Maria Ramirez Prieto, Mylène Ratelle, Brian Douglas Laird, Kelly Skinner

“…A dietary transition away from traditional foods and toward a diet of the predominantly unhealthy market is a public health and sociocultural concern throughout Indigenous communities in Canada, including those in the sub-Arctic and remote regions of Dehcho and Sahtú of the Northwest Territories, Canada. The main aim of the present study is to describe dietary intakes for macronutrients and micronutrients in traditional and market food from the Mackenzie Valley study. …”
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Country food consumption in Yukon, Northwest Territories and Nunavut, Foodbook study 2014–2015 by Vanessa Morton, Anna Manore, Nadia Ciampa, Shiona Glass-Kaastra, Matt Hurst, Angie Mullen, Jennifer Cutler

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