Resurgent Indigenous Research in Local and Global Contexts

Inuit Nunangat: Where Two Worlds Collide (From the Art and Waste in Pannituuq [Pangnirtung] Project)

kvd1 — Wed, 12 Apr 2023 19:20:05 +0000

micky renders

Inuit Nunangat is a site where differing epistemologies and cosmologies collide. The Arctic waste crisis stems from a culture of wasting that is capitalist and not Inuit. With the delicate Arctic ecosystem degrading due to climate change, escalating resource extraction, the opening of the Northwest Passage, and the expansion of NORAD, unprecedented volumes of waste and contaminants are causing unknowable changes in life, land, sea, and ice. At the intersection of art, politics and activism, the Art and Wastes in Pangnirtung Project challenges assumptions about Inuit and exposes the pervasive nature of settler colonization as the root cause of wastes.

Location of photograph:

Pannituuq (Pangnirtung), Nunavut

Submission Year:

2023

Polar Bear Denning

kvd1 — Tue, 31 May 2022 14:24:56 +0000

Scott Arlidge

This photo demonstrates the collection of snow from inside a maternal polar bear den to collect environmental DNA. When the mother digs out the den, skin cells from its paws are abraded and stuck to the snow. Some preliminary research shows that we may be able to identify individual bears by analyzing these snow samples, information which can inform polar bear population management. My research is a pilot of ground-based non-invasive polar bear monitoring techniques, with a focus on Inuit inclusivity. Inuit Elders and polar bear hunters were key knowledge holders and collaborators throughout this research.

Location of photograph:

Coral Harbour, Nunavut

Submission Year:

2022

George Konana Collecting Ice

kvd1 — Tue, 31 May 2022 13:57:58 +0000

Saskia de Wildt

The Inuit practice an ongoing relationship with the land through camping, hunting, and fishing. As part of the BearWatch project, I explore how such knowledge, accumulated over many generations, and Inuit values can be ethically engaged in a community-based polar bear monitoring program. This picture is taken on one of our trips out on the land around Gjoa Haven during spring 2022. It captures George Konana collecting ice from the lake for tea. He traces ice with the right quality to give his tea a nice ‘reddish, brown’ color. At this exact moment, he cracks out a huge piece, enough for a month of tea.

Location of photograph:

Gjoa Haven, Nunavut

Submission Year:

2022

Leaders in cancer research

kvd1 — Fri, 04 Feb 2022 20:19:31 +0000

To recognize World Cancer Day, Queen’s is highlighting current partnerships and research projects to develop novel treatments, support better outcomes, and advance quality of life for people with cancer globally.

#QueensuResearch | To recognize World Cancer Day, Queen’s is highlighting current partnerships and research projects to develop novel treatments, support better outcomes, and advance quality of life for people with cancer globally.

Capturing the Art of Research: Celebrating the 2020 prize recipients

MLR7 — Mon, 06 Jul 2020 13:52:42 +0000

The Queen’s Art of Research photo contest celebrates its fifth year, with the selection of ten stunning winning images.

Explore photos from ��˴�Ƭ researchers with the Art of Research as they take you behind-the-scenes of their #QueensuResearch

Empowerment through revitalization of Indigenous language and education

moonr — Fri, 19 Jun 2020 13:42:22 +0000

Of Canada’s approximately 60 Indigenous languages, all but 6 are in imminent danger of extinction. ��˴�Ƭ researcher Lindsay Morcom is working with Indigenous communities to help address this.

Learning from the Land

kvd1 — Fri, 12 Jun 2020 13:37:20 +0000

Sarah Flisikowski

The transmission and documentation of traditional knowledge and skills is of great importance to Inuit, especially considering the continuing social, environmental, and economic changes in the Arctic. I am examining how Inuit traditional knowledge is generated and shared through a case study of an existing project in Ulukhaktok called Nunamin Illihakvia, which means "learning from the land" in Inuinnaqtun. Participants from other Inuvialuit communities were invited to travel to Ulukhaktok in February 2020 to participate in cultural activities that promoted discussion on what a cultural learning program should include. This photo shows our first trip out on Queen's Bay together.

Location of photograph:

Ulukhaktok, Northwest Territories, Canada

Prize name:

People's Choice

Submission Year:

2019-20

Queen’s Indigenous health researcher named Indspire Award winner

kvd1 — Wed, 12 Feb 2020 16:04:25 +0000

The first Indigenous midwife in Canada to earn a doctoral degree will be recognized with a 2020 Indspire Award – the most prestigious career excellence award bestowed by the Indigenous community on its own people. Queen’s University’s Karen Lawford has been named one of this year’s 12 outstanding Indigenous leaders, and will be honoured with the Indspire Award for Health at a nationally-televised ceremony on March 6.

Research Award

Tags:

Indspire Award

Indigenous

Midwife

Aboriginal

Diabetes on the rise in First Nations populations

kvd1 — Wed, 11 Dec 2019 21:18:59 +0000

According to the report, developed jointly by the Chiefs of Ontario (COO) and ICES, the increase is particularly concerning as there is a rising, disproportionate number of First Nations children affected by diabetes.

New Research

Shared Decision-Making: A Partnership for Client-Centred Healthcare

kvd1 — Wed, 30 Oct 2019 20:30:57 +0000

Dr. Janet Jull is an occupational therapist and Assistant Professor in the School of Rehabilitation Therapy in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Queen’s University. Her research focuses on developing and evaluating shared decision-making tools and approaches to support client-centred care, with a particular focus on cancer care. In all of her research, Dr. Jull works in collaboration with First Nations, Inuit, and Métis researchers and communities.

Lindsay Morcom

kvd1 — Mon, 29 Jul 2019 18:22:50 +0000

Empowerment through Revitalization

As Indigenous communities around the world work to ensure the survival of their languages, it is becoming clear that the best language planning approaches involve learning opportunities for families and individuals of all ages.

Setting the stage for the artistic repatriation of Indigenous music

moonr — Wed, 10 Jul 2019 19:29:45 +0000

In what may be a classical music first, the Canadian Opera Company (COC) and the National Arts Centre (NAC) are co-commissioning new music to replace part of a copyrighted musical work – the opera Louis Riel – to redress the misappropriation of a Nisga’a First Nations song.

Lindsay Morcom: Bringing research into her classroom and Indigenous communities

moonr — Tue, 23 Apr 2019 13:33:27 +0000

Lindsay Morcom shares her experiences of bringing her research into her classroom and Indigenous communities.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8XrZLE-gwI

As Far as Possible, No Salmon

kvd1 — Tue, 05 Feb 2019 21:20:40 +0000

Scott Thompson

This metal tag and list of conditions formed the foundation for the surveillance and management of First Nations fishing practices in 1920s British Columbia. Scott Thompson, a Banting postdoctoral fellow in the Surveillance Studies Centre, is researching how surveillance technologies, like this one, that were designed and implemented by the Canadian government, not only asserted a particular vision of how First Nations peoples ought to behave and enforced this vision, but in doing so, also contributed to the establishment of hurtful “Indian” stereotypes that are still with us today.

Submission Year:

2015-16

Landscapes of Resistance

stratg — Tue, 02 Oct 2018 20:15:40 +0000

Alexandra Pedersen

As a feminist/activist geographer, much of my doctoral research has concentrated on Indigenous and non-Indigenous communal experiences of violent development in Guatemala. An emblematic case of community conflict with, and resistance to, transnational corporate interests comes from the remote community of Lote Ocho. There, Irma Yolanda Choc Cac (pictured here) is one of eleven Indigenous Q’eqchi’ Maya women pursuing a civil court case against the Canadian mining company HudBay Minerals for sexual assaults allegedly committed during a violent eviction of her community from their ancestral lands in 2007.

Location of photograph:

Lote Ocho, Izabal, Guatemala

Prize name:

Winner, Out in the Field

Submission Year:

2017-18