THE NAONAIYAOTIT TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE

PROJECT (NTKP)

An Evolving Traditional Knowledge Database via

Dynamic Partnerships with Industry

Presented to the 2012 Nunavut Mining Symposium

NTKP

• Land and Environment planning tool• Inuit designed, conducted & implemented

• GIS Regional database of knowledge of Kitikmeot Inuit

• Slave Geological Province

Study Area

Study Area

NTKP THEMES• Heritage, Culture & Land Use• Habitat (Cliffs, Eskers, Wetlands)• Water Quality (Important lakes and rivers)• Fish• Seals & Marine Mammals• Birds• Hares, Ground Squirrels & Small Mammals• Grizzly Bears• Moose• Caribou• Muskox• Red & Arctic Foxes• Wolves• Wolverine

Authors

NTKP THEMES• Heritage, Culture & Land Use• Habitat (Cliffs, Eskers, Wetlands)• Water Quality (Important lakes and rivers)• Fish• Seals & Marine Mammals• Birds• Hares, Ground Squirrels & Small Mammals• Grizzly Bears• Moose• Caribou• Muskox• Red & Arctic Foxes• Wolves• Wolverine

Walking in the Path of the CaribouKnowledge of the Copper Inuit

Placenames Atlas

Naonaiyaotit Traditional Knowledge Project

Vivian Banci, Chris C. Hanks and Rosemary M. Spicker, EditorsGerry Atatahak, Data Collection Coordinator and Translator

Kitikmeot Inuit AssociationCambridge Bay and Kugluktuk, Nunavut

Present & Future for NTKP• Integrating other Traditional

Knowledge into the NTKP– Tuktu Nogait Project– Inuit Land Use and Occupancy

Project• Partnerships for Development

Review and Monitoring• Publication of the NTKP for the

Inuit and Public use

Tuktu Nogait Project (TNP)• Integrated into NTKP

2011

Industry Partnerships

• TK Integration into EIS–Hope Bay Project–Back River Project–Others: TBA

• Publication of the NTKP–Ekati Diamond Mine

Summary• The NTKP is the major source of Inuit Traditional

Knowledge in the Slave Geological Province.

• The NTKP provides baseline data that augments science, and in some cases, is the only information available.

• Partnerships with industry and government will add value to resource development and to promoting Inuit culture.

• KIA will continue building the NTKP, focused on the entire Kitikmeot Region.

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