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Archival Projects

This series consists of records documenting projects undertaken by the GSCI to document, preserve and update their archival material. These projects include the Digital Archive Project and the development of a Strategic Archive Plan in 2003-2004, the Photo Digitization Project in 2007, the Digitization of Gwich’in Archival and Research Materials project in 2010-2011 and the Materials Update Project. Records in this series include correspondence; funding and budget materials; reports; inventories; notes; a How-To document; database printouts; and CDs containing computer backups, database materials, sound archive database materials and transcripts and recordings from place name and ethno-archaeology projects.

Website

This series consists of planning and funding materials documenting the creation, launch and update of GSCI’s website. Records in this series include correspondence; funding applications and contribution agreements; financial statements; content planning materials; website printouts; materials relating to GSCI’s social media strategy including draft documents; and website reporting materials.

Executive Director

This series consists of GSCI Executive Director files from 2004-2016. These files document the various functions and activities of the Executive Director and the GSCI and include materials related to administration; GSCI’s Board of Directors; strategic planning; policy; funding; finance; the Gwich’in Tribal Council; Gwich’in organizations; the Government of the Northwest Territories; other organizations; researchers and research licensing; land use licencing and administration; language work and policy; traditional knowledge work and policy; GSCI and non-GSCI projects; reporting; publications; historic sites; and the GSCI website. Records in these files include correspondence and attached/enclosed documents; informational materials; funding applications, proposals and contribution agreements; financial materials; policies; meeting and conference materials; reports and drafts; presentation materials; project materials; historic sites nomination forms and materials; research and land use applications and related materials; and letters of support.

This series consists of project, planning and produced records from the GSCI’s Arctic Red River Headwaters Projects. These projects include Arctic Red River Headwaters Project Phase I 2004-2005, Arctic Red River Headwaters Project Phase II 2005-2006 and Headwaters of the Arctic Red River Phase III 2007-2008 Archaeological assessment and TEK 2007-2008. The fourth phase of the project, Headwaters of the Arctic Red River Phase IV: Traditional Land Use of the Headwaters and Front Ranges, was cancelled in 2010. The GSCI conducted a review of their collected materials and information on traditional use and heritage resources for the Arctic Red River to identify gaps and interviewed Elders and harvesters in the area to provide input as to whether the status of the area should be changed from a Special Management Zone to a legislative protected area or a Gwich'in Heritage Conservation Zone under the Gwich'in Land Use Plan. The GSCI also conducted ecological knowledge interviews with Elders and harvesters for the archaeological assessment to determine archaeological potential.

Project and planning materials in this series include correspondence; funding proposals; budget materials; research plan; assessments; materials related to the 10-Year Review of the Arctic Red River; interview materials including questions, checklists and consent forms; notes; and reference materials. Produced materials include reports, audio recordings of interviews, transcripts and presentation materials.

Partner Projects

This series consists of project, planning and produced records documenting projects that were not initiated by the GSCI but in which the GSCI were partners and provided significant information and assistance. Projects documented in this series include the Snowchange Project (2002), Wind River/CPAWS Trip 2003, Ways we respect caribou: Hunting in Teetł'it Zheh (Fort McPherson, NWT) (2007), Dempster Highway Grave Signage (2007-2015), the Genographic Project (2008-2012), The Sun at Midnight Movie (2008-2016), Legendary Sky Project (2009), the Muskrat Exhibit at PWNHC (2010-2012), the Moss House project (2011-2015); the Berger Inquiry exhibit (began in 2012) and Women of Influence in the North/Sisters of the North (2014).

Project and planning records in this series include correspondence; funding applications; research applications and agreements; ethics review application; GSCI job posting; interview lists, questions and consent forms; presentation materials; informational materials; Memorandum of Cooperation and Understanding for the Snowchange Project; letter of support for the Genographic Project; letters of support, script materials and drafts, blank consent forms, draft press release and press kit for the Sun at Midnight Movie; and draft story and script excerpts from the Women of Influence in the North/Sisters of the North project. Produced materials include: pamphlets reports; articles; photographs (prints and digital); audio recordings; and video recordings.

This series consists of project, planning and produced records documenting the GSCI’s Gwich’in Traditional Knowledge of the Mackenzie Gas Project Area project. The GSCI undertook the recording of traditional knowledge information within the area of the proposed Mackenzie Gas Pipeline, north of the Mackenzie River, as part of the Environmental Assessment for the project and under the funding of Imperial Oil and the coordination of the Mackenzie Project Environmental Group. The GSCI created a geographic information system from the traditional knowledge information collected in this and other projects. In 2010, the GSCI provided responses to the Joint Review Panel’s recommendations on the Mackenzie Gas Project.

Project and planning records in this series include correspondence; contract, Terms of Reference and agreements with Imperial Oil; budget materials; work schedules; working group and workshop materials; interview materials including draft questions and consent forms; and information packages and reference materials. Produced materials include audio recordings, transcripts, photographs, maps, and reports. The series includes the Joint Review Panel’s recommendations and GSCI’s responses.

Elder's Biography Project

This series consists of project, planning and produced records documenting the GSCI’s Elder’s Biography Project which began in 1999 and concluded in 2019. Records relate to the recording of biographies of 24 Elders from Aklavik, Fort McPherson, Inuvik and Tsiigehtchic in 2000 and 2001, the production of calendars for 2001, 2003, 2006, 2008 and 2014 featuring summaries of these Elders’ life stories and the production of a book featuring their stories that was published in 2019. Project and planning records in this series include correspondence; funding applications, reports, contribution agreements, memoranda of understanding; financial statements; biography, calendar and book drafts; and materials related to translation and transcription. Produced materials in this series include audio recordings of interviews; translation recordings of interviews; transcripts; photographs; reports; and copies of the 2001, 2006, 2008 and 2014 calendars.

Newsletters
433-S03 · Series · 1999-2005
Part of OutNorth fonds

Series contains OutNorth's monthly newsletters.

Government of Yukon

This series consists of records documenting the GSCI’s work and interaction with the Government of Yukon. Records in this series relate to legislation, burial site workshops and guidelines, the Yukon Geographic Place Names Board and the North Yukon Planning Commission 2007. Records include correspondence, a data sharing agreement, a report and commission materials from the North Yukon Planning Commission; materials related to the consultation on the Yukon Development Assessment Process; correspondence, policy materials, workshop materials and audio or video recordings from the First National Burial Sites Workshop in Whitehorse in 1998; Yukon Geographic Place Names Board annual reports; Yukon Native Language Centre Activities Report; a copy of the Yukon Historical Resources Act and annual report; a brochure for the Achievement Culture Environment Service Wilderness Program; a 2006 Yukon Palaeontology Program Calendar; and posters.

Meeting materials
433-S02 · Series · 1997-2006
Part of OutNorth fonds

Series contains minutes and other materials from Out North's Board meetings and Annual General Meetings.

Gwich'in Ethnobotany

This series consists of project, planning and produced records from the GSCI’s Gwich’in Ethnobotany Project (1997-2009) and audio and video recordings from Alestine Andre’s Master’s thesis work on Gwich’in ethnobotany.

Records in this series from the Gwich’in Ethnobotany Project document field work, research and the recording of oral history information, the writing of Gwich'in Ethnobotany: Plants Used by the Gwich'in for Food, Medicine, Shelter and Tools, the preparation of plant specimen kits for schools and the creation of the Gwich’in Ethnobotany Web Module. Project and planning records include correspondence; contribution agreements and funding proposals; field notes; plant descriptions and labels; drafts of reports, articles and Gwich’in Ethnobotany; press releases for launch of Gwich’in Ethnobotany; drafts and edits of materials for the Gwich’in Ethnobotany Web Module; and reference materials. Produced records from the Gwich’in Ethnobotany Project include copies of Gwich’in Ethnobotany; copies of the article “Spruce Trees and Gwich'in Traditional Knowledge” published 2015; photographs; slides; video recordings; and a transcript from the Knut Lang Camp in 1997.

Alestine Andre wrote her Master’s thesis on Gwich’in ethnobotany based on the traditional knowledge of Ruth Welsh and the work she did with Alan Fehr for the GSCI and Aurora Research Institute. The video and audio recordings from Alestine Andre’s thesis work are of field work and interviews with Ruth Welsh.

Burial Sites

This series consists of records of the GSCI’s work in documenting, recognizing and protecting Gwich’in burial sites. Records in this series relate to the Tsiigehtchic Graveyard Mapping Project 2005-2008, Burial site signage along the Dempster Highway and the GTC Gwich’in Burial Site Guidelines. Records include correspondence; GTC Burial Site Guidelines and draft; notebook, notes and information on graves from the Tsiigehtchic Graveyard Mapping Project; and news articles.

This series consists of non-project related GSCI publications and posters and related planning materials. Records in this series include correspondence; draft texts and final copies; GSCI brochures; outlines, drafts and printed photos related to the GSCI Career Brochure; Gwich’in knowledge posters; a poster about the Dempster Highway and a poster made by GSCI for Mary Kendi’s 95th birthday.

This series consists of records related to conferences, workshops and meetings which cover Gwich’in specific topics as well as general policy, research, cultural and heritage issues. Included in this series are GSCI workshops as well as conferences, workshops and meetings of other organizations, many of which GSCI staff attended, presented at and/or were involved in organizing. Records in this series include: correspondence; conference, workshop and meeting materials, minutes, notes and reports; GSCI presentation materials; informational materials; and video of the Gwich’in Elder’s Sessions at the Wisdom Engaged Conference in 2015.

This series consists of records documenting the GSCI’s work with the Gwich’in Renewable Resources Board (GRRB) on traditional knowledge projects. Records consist of project, planning and produced materials from joint GSCI and GRRB projects including the Gwich’in Environmental Knowledge Project, Gwich'in Traditional Knowledge of Boreal Woodland Caribou (2010), Gwich'in Traditional Knowledge of Grizzly Bears (2012-2013), Nan Srìdatr’igwijìinlik Gwà’àn Nin Duulee Nìinjìi (Species at Risk in the Gwich'in Settlement Region) Brochure Project (2012-2014), Gwich'in Traditional Knowledge of Wolverine (2013) and Gwich'in Traditional Knowledge of Bluenose Caribou (2014). Project and planning materials include correspondence; project proposal; funding applications; budget materials; service contract for the GRRB; timeline; presentation materials; reference materials; interview materials such as consent forms, questionnaires, guidelines; and digital copies of research agreements and maps. Produced materials include reports, brochures, drafts and audio and video recordings.

Other GSCI Projects

This series consists of project, planning and produced records documenting additional projects that the GSCI conducted or was involved in. The projects documented in this series include Peel River Watershed Annotated Bibliography (1995), Gwich'in Themes and Annotated Bibliography on NWT Gwich'in (1996), Capital Suites Inuvik Photo Project, Dempster Highway Brochure Project (2004-2005), Teetł'it Gwich'in Googwandak Book Project (began in 2005), Steppe Bison Project (2007-2015), Peel Watershed Heritage Inventory (2008), Gwich’in Social and Cultural Institute and Aurora Research Institute: Vegetation – Caribou-Wolf Food Chain Project (2008-2009), James Jerome Photo Workshop and Exhibit (2008-2010), Gwich'in Legends: CBC Radio Legacy Project (2008-2011), Gwich'in Legends DVD (2009-2017), CMC Collections Website and Maps (2010-2012), Mary Kendi Life History Project (2010-2014), Y2Y Geodatabase (2012), Tsiigehtchic Community Brochure (2011-2016), Wind River Booklet (began in 2013), Canadian Museum of History Canadian History Hall Exhibit (2015-2017), The Tukudh Bible Project (2016), Gwich’in Research Material Update Project and Creation of an Integrated Arctic and Subarctic Vegetation Dataset (2016-2017).

Project and planning records in this series include correspondence; funding proposals and contribution agreements; budget materials; meeting agendas and notes; reference materials; bills of sale, photograph copies, photograph lists, captions and permission to use image forms for the Capital Suites project; draft materials for the Dempster Highway Brochure Project; proposal, script materials transcribed and translated stories, interview notes, character lists and articles for the CBC Radio Legacy Project; proposal, draft workshop agenda, notes, and draft reports and transcriptions for the Gwich’in Legends DVD project; preliminary reports, articles, speaking notes and posters for the Steppe Bison Project; research application and review materials for the Vegetation – Caribou-Wolf Food Chain Project; workshop invitations, interview notes and draft panel text and calendar materials from the James Jerome Project; planning and draft materials for the Tsiigehtchic Community Brochure project; steering committee materials and recordings for the Teetł'it Gwich'in Googwandak Book Project; proposals, Terms of Reference, database printouts and drafts of the Peel River Watershed Annotated Bibliography; translations and printed photographs from the CMC Collections Website and Maps project; planning and reference materials for the Wind River Booklet Project; a Letter of Agreement, agenda, notes and pamphlets from the CMC History Hall Exhibit; and a contract and update materials for the Integrated Arctic and Subarctic Vegetation Dataset.

Produced records in this series include reports; calendars; digital photographs on CD; audio and video recordings; CDs and DVDs; and copies of the article “A late Pleistocene steppe bison (Bison priscus) partial carcass from Tsiigehtchic, Northwest Territories, Canada.”

This series consists of project and planning records documenting GSCI’s involvement in land use planning and management with other organizations including the Gwich’in Land Administration, the Gwich’in Land and Water Board (GLWB), the Gwich’in Interim Land Use Planning Board (GILUPB), the Gwich’in Land and Water Working Group (GLWWG) and the Peel Watershed Planning Commission. Records include correspondence, reports, informational materials, a copy of the Gwich’in Land Management and Control Rules, and maps relating to Peel Watershed Planning. The series also includes workshop proposals, agendas, presentation materials, discussion papers and draft reports from the Peel River Watershed Advisory Committee Workshop, GLWB‘s Integrated Resource Management workshops, GTC-GILUPB’s Land Use Planning Workshop and GILUPB-GLWWG’s Gwich’in Settlement Area Integrated Resources Workshop.

Gwichya Gwich'in Googwandak

This series consists of project, planning and produced records documenting the three phases of the GSCI’s History of the Gwichya Gwich'in and of Tsiigehtchic project from 1995-2007 in which the GSCI published two editions of Gwichya Gwich’in Googwandak: The History and Stories of the Gwichya Gwich’in. Using information gathered between 1992 and 1995 as well as archival and oral history information, a draft was written by Michael Heine in 1996 and was followed by additional drafts as well as interviews and a workshop with Elders. The first edition was published in 2001 and a revised edition was published in 2007. Project and planning records in this series include correspondence; funding proposals and contribution agreements; budget materials; drafts; copies of archival photographs dating as early as 1945; and materials related to the launching of the book. Produced materials in this series include copies of Gwichya Gwich’in Googwandak; copies of the 1996 draft; photographs used in the book and from the book launch; and audio recordings of interviews.

Archaeology

This series consists of records documenting the GSCI’s archaeological work and activities. Records include project, planning and produced materials from GSCI and non-GSCI archaeological projects, archaeological reports from the Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre which include GSCI projects and copies of a Conservation Manual for Northern Archaeologists from 1991.

GSCI projects documented in this series include the Tsiigehnjik Ethnoarchaeology Project (lower river) 1994-1995, the Tsiigehnjik Video Project 1994-1995, the Tsiigehnjik Ethnoarchaeology Project (upper river) 1994-1995, the Martin Zheh Ethnoarchaeology Project 1995-1996 (Field school) (also referred to as the Tsiigehnjik Ethnoarchaeology Project 1996), the Gwich'in Territorial Park Archaeology Project (1995), the Fort McPherson Archaeology Project 1999, the Peel River Ethno-Archaeology Project 2000, the Fort McPherson Archaeological Excavation and Peel River Survey 2002 and the Fort McPherson Ethno-Archaeology (Heritage) Booklet 2003-2005. Project and planning materials include correspondence; project proposals; funding proposals, contribution agreements and activity reports; memoranda of understanding; financial statements and budget materials; archaeological permit and research licence applications for GSCI projects; notes; field notes; schedules; supply and equipment lists; copies of archival materials, outlines and draft text for video; presentation and display materials; and radio carbon dating results. Produced materials include reports and publications; maps; photographs, slides and negatives; sound and video recordings; transcripts; maps; and copies of the film “Tsiigehnjik Life Along the Arctic Red River.”