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SAC # 39: The Hunter Support Programme: an analysis of its operations and socio-economic impacts upon Inuit in one community in Nunavik (Northern Québec)

OPEN AND FREE TO ALL INTERESTED PARTIES

When

9 August 2007, 4- 5:30pm

Where

Seminar Room, Centre for Innovation, 87 St. David St.
Click here for a map (refer cell H4.21). Note: Limited parking is available on Castle St. and must be arranged with the Centre for Innovation Front Desk (phone 479-8469)

Speaker

Nicole Gombay, PhD. Dept of Geography, University of Canterbury

Abstract

With the signing of the James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement in 1975, Inuit in Nunavik (Northern Québec) adopted a variety of institutions over which they might have greater control than had heretofore been the case, and with the goal of promoting development that reflected more closely their own concerns. One product of the Agreement was the creation of the Hunter Support Programme which was designed as a mechanism for the on-going support of indigenous livelihoods through the provision of local foods. This talk will explain the nature and functioning of the Hunter Support Programme while exploring the reactions of people in one settlement in Nunavik to the socio-economic impacts of the Programme.

About the Speaker

Nicole Gombay received her Ph.D. in geography from Queen's University and completed a post-doc in anthropology at McGill. Her research in the Arctic includes studies of land claims and community-based and community-run study of TEK.