The Tuktu and Nogak Project: Inuit Knowledge about Caribou and Calving Areas in the Bathurst Inlet Region

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Author: Thorpe, Natasha L.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1997
• Subjects: Animal distribution; Animal reproduction; Biology; Caribou; Elders; Expeditions; Traditional knowledge; Intercultural education; Inuit; Research; Wildlife management; Bathurst Inlet region; Nunavut; Bathurst Inlet; Arctic; caribou; inuit
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/64177

. Traditional ecological knowledge is central to Inuit culture in general, and to the sustainable management of lands, resources, and wildlife in particular. Since lifestyles in the Bathurst Inlet region are changing at the same time that elders are passing on and taking their wisdom with them, effo...