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Akunniq Planning Region Archaeology __ "Beginning with the Tuniit, or Dorset Culture people, human beings have called the Nunavut Settlement Area home for some 5,000 years... The Nunavut Planning Commission is one of many agencies created under the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement (NLCA) working with the Inuit Heritage Trust and the Canadian Museum of Civilisation to help preserve the record of that habitation, including traditional place names." - What can I add? - Learn about their programs and goals. - From Nunavut Planning Commission - http://npc.nunavut.ca/eng/regions/akunniq/archeol.html
Archaeology in Arctic North America __ About unique challenges facing Arctic archaeologists - illustrated, field reports - http://watarts.uwaterloo.ca/ANTHRO/rwpark/ArcticArchStuff/ArcticIntro.html
Archaeology of the Western Arctic Coast __ Archaeological research along the Canadian Arctic coast. "You will find out about natural destruction due to rapid subsidence. Along the Yukon coast there is almost nothing left that is more than a hundred years old." - illustrated - From Aurora Research Institute - http://collections.ic.gc.ca/simply_science/scirep3b.htm
A Look Back in Time - The Archaeology of Fort Selkirk __ "Archaeology in the Fort Selkirk area was carried out between 1987 and 1989 as a cooperative project of the Selkirk First Nation, the Yukon Heritage Branch and Yukon College." You will find a good overview of the reaearch and the cooperation with "First Nations." - illustrated - From Yukon Department of Tourism. - http://www.yukonheritage.com/publications-selkirk.htm
Nadlok and the Origin of the Copper Inuit __ "Nadlok is the only known site clearly spanning the transition between the first Inuit culture in Canada, called Thule, and that of the Copper Inuit described by the first explorers in the western Central Arctic." - photos and other illustrations - From CMCC - http://www.civilization.ca/archeo/nadlok/nadloke.html
Prehistoric Inuit Cultures __ Information about the Denbigh, Dorset, and Thule cultures of the Inuit. - http://www.usask.ca/education/ideas/tplan/sslp/pre.htm