“In the early 1970s the Dene leadership directed the Dene Nation to carry out a traditional land use and occupancy study to document the Dene interest in the Northwest Territories, as well as to provide a land use data base to be used in land claims negotiations and for similar applications. Approximately 600 trappers, comprising a 30% sample of all Dene/Metis trappers in the Mackenzie River valley recorded their land use on 150 large composite maps. These were accompanied by more detailed biographical information on dates and seasons of use, the species of animals that were taken, mode of transport, and other relevant details. In 1981, the Dene Mapping Project was formed to computerize these data to produce a traditional land use data base that is easily accessed and manipulated, utilizing the computing and other research facilities of the University of Alberta.” (Asch, Andrews and Smith 1986)
SRRB project (2013-201?) is working to fix the flaws in the dataset or reconstitute original dataset, create metadata.
Monday, 04 May 2015 14:44
Dene Mapping Project (Dene/Metis Mapping Project)
Additional Info
- Project: Dene Mapping Project (Dene/Metis Mapping Project)
- Dataset Title: Dene Mapping Project (Dene/Metis Mapping Project)
- Data Series: Dene Mapping Project (Dene/Metis Mapping Project)
- Orginator: Dene Nation
- Institution Type: aboriginal
- Author: Dene Nation
- Distributor: Dene Nation
- Reports: Asch, Michael, Andrews, Thomas. D. and Shirleen Smith: The Dene mapping project on land use and occupancy: An introduction. In: Anthropology in Praxis: 36–43 . Ed. P Spaulding. Department of Anthropology, University of Calgary, 1986
- Data Type: GIS
- Délı̨nę District: yes
- K’asho Got’ı̨nę District: yes
- Tulı́t’a District: yes
- Time Period: 1889-1980
- Source Date: 198-
- Version: unknown
- Access Constraints: permission required
- Use Constraints: Consult Dene Nation
- Completion Status: not digitized
- Maintenance: unknown
- Maintenance Frequency: unknown
- Metadata Available: Some from SRRB project available in SRRB reports via the NWT Discovery Portal.
- Metadata Contact: Dene Nation
- Spatial Extent: NWT
- Traditional Knowledge: yes
- Wildlife: yes
- Habitat: yes
- Keywords: wildlife observations; traditional use; hunting; trapping; gathering; traditional knowledge;
- Data Category: vector
- Feature Type: point
- Scale: 250,000-500,000
- Projection: GCS_North_American_1983
- Downloadable: no
- Hardcopy Component: Hundreds of hard copy maps at 1:250,000-1:1,000,000 scale taped into mosaics with felt pen, pencil, and pen annotations.
- Hardcopy Description: Associated hard copy maps in storage at Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre.
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