It’s been six years since we launched this website to share the MacFarlane collection with Inuvialuit and the world. Now we want to expand the site to include objects from archaeological sites across the Inuvialuit Settlement Region. Read More
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The Inuvialuit Cultural Resource Centre (ICRC) in Inuvik, N.W.T., is proud to announce the launch of a new website, Inuvialuit Pitqusiit Inuuniarutait: Inuvialuit Living History – www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca. Produced in collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution's Arctic Studies Center, the Department of Canadian Heritage's Museums Assistance Program, Parks Canada’s Western Arctic Field Unit, and other project partners (see full list below), the website provides on-line access to an important but little-known collection of over 300 cultural objects and nearly 5,000 natural history specimens at the Smithsonian Institution which were collected by Hudson’s Bay trader Roderick MacFarlane from Inuvialuit living in the Anderson River area in the 1860s. It also provides lesson plans for elementary and high school students that highlight Inuvialuit traditional knowledge and the history of the Anderson River region as pathways for learning about items in the collection. Read More
The Inuvialuit Living History project team is pleased to have made our site accessible to the public. In advance of the official launch of the project at the end of April 2012, we welcome your feedback, comments, and suggestions for improving the website. Read More
A paper titled “Virtual Repatriation and the Application Programming Interface: From the Smithsonian Institution’s MacFarlane Collection to “Inuvialuit Living History” was just published by team members Kate Hennessy and Charles Arnold, with project developers Ryan Wallace and Nicholas Jakobsen, on the Museums and the Web 2012 Conference site. In the paper we explore the design of the Reciprocal Research Network’s API and how it was leveraged by the Inuvialuit Living History Project team and the Inuvialuit Cultural Resource Centre to create our virtual exhibit.
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In January, 2012, Kate Hennessy represented the project team in a workshop called "After the Return" at the American Museum of Natural History in Washington D.C. Mervin Joe was also scheduled to attend but was unfortunately kept at home by the famous Inuvik blizzard that damaged the roof of the Inuvik airport! Luckily Mervin was able to Skype into the workshop to talk about his outreach work in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region and his work on the Inuvialuit Living History website. Kim Christen, a co-organizer of the workshop, wrote a great summary on the blog "Material World" about the workshop In addition to describing many of the fantastic presentations given in the course of the event, she talks about Mervin's virtual presentation. All in all it was a wonderful few days and we arereally looking forward to future collaborations and publications. Read More
This article was just published in the Slave Lake Journal, reporting on Mervin and Chuck's presentation about the Inuvialuit Living History Project in Fort Smith, NWT.
Inuvialuit trace their culture south to the Smithsonian
By MEAGAN WOHLBERG, SRJ Reporter
Tue, Nov 15, 2011
In the mid-1860s, Hudson's Bay Company trader Roderick MacFarlane sent
thousands of cultural and scientific artifacts from the Fort Anderson
trading post on Inuvialuit territory down to the Smithsonian Museum in
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Tusaayaksaat is a magazine published by the Inuvialuit Communications Society. This great article written by our project team member Maia Lepage tells the story of how Inuvialuit artifacts were collected by Roderick MacFarlane and brought to the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History, and how in 2009 an Inuvialuit delegation traveled to Washington D.C. to see them for the first time. Beautiful photographs are by Maia Lepage and Dave Stewart.
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In October of 2010, members of our team presented drafts of our project at the annual conference of the Intellectual Property Issues in Cultural Heritage IPinCH research group in Vancouver, B.C. Mervin Joe and Albert Elias traveled from Inuvik to Vancouver and joined Natasha Lyons, Kate Hennessy, and Charles Arnold to talk about our trip to the Smithsonian Institution to view the MacFarlane Collection, and the website project in progress. Read More
Our team is excited to have migrated our website to its new website address at www.inuvilauitlivinghistory.ca. This is still a work in progress, and we are continuing to upload content and work out some design details. We greatly value your feedback and invite you to let us know what you think of the project by following the "Contact" link at the bottom of the page. We anticipate that the project will be officially launched early in Fall, 2011. Read More
Since our last community consultation in February, our team has been working on a protoype of the Inuvialuit Living History website. This week Mervin Joe, Cathy Cockney, and Kate Hennessy visited with students and teachers at Samuel Hearne Senior Secondary School to show them the site and ask for feedback on how to improve the website for use in the school. They also visited with the Inuvialuit Communications Society and Parks Canada, Inuvik, to show them the website and discuss how it could be used in educational programs. Read More
