Supporting Inuvialuit Food Sovereignty: Characterizing Culture-Centered Dietary Messages for Healthy, Safe and Culturally Appropriate Diets in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region, Northwest Territories

• Main Author: Gyapay, Julia
• Format: Master Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: University of Waterloo 2022
• Subjects: Indigenous health communication; Indigenous Knowledge; nutrition communication; dietary messages; country foods; store-bought foods; Inuit; Inuvialuit Settlement Region; Northwest Territories; community-based research; Canada; food sovereignty; Arctic; Tuktoyaktuk; Climate change; inuit; Inuvialuit
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10012/18061

Contemporary Inuit diets are comprised of both country and store-bought foods, which each confer benefits and risks to Inuit physical, mental, cultural, spiritual and socio-economic health. Inuit residing in Inuit Nunangat (the Canadian traditional homelands of the Inuit) disproportionately experien...