Community Based Research Project Paper
Traditional Envoronmenal Knowledge of the Banks Island Inuit as Relating to the Management of the Banks Island Muskox Herd
Introduction
Traditional Knowledge tries to understand systems as whole and not isolate the interacting parts. As Traditional Environmental Knowledge (TEK) users will point out, you pay attention to things, when those things are what keep you alive. Traditional Knowledge is an understanding and reverence that native people have with ecosystems. It is often expressed in spiritual and cultural terms and rules, providing not only description and reverence for natural resources but an ethical system for human behavior for sustaining ecosystems, including humans, for generations that will follow. Humans depend on ecosystems and human actions must reflect this dependency.
The reason for the establishment of this project is to verify the need for the incorporation of TEK concerning the management of the Banks Island Musk ox herd.
Chinese Bank of China
Bank
Banking DistrictThe project will use a semi-structured research method in order to allow interview subjects an opportunity to expand on established questions to be determined by participating project organizations. It is my hope that this paper will give more credence to the use of TEK relating to the management of the Banks Island Musk ox herd. Current as well as past research in the field of musk ox management has proven to be inadequate, as current numbers have indicated. It is hoped that this research paper will result in the collaborative management of the herd. Although my paper focuses on traditional knowledge as it relates to the environment and ecology, it is important to note that it is a form of knowing that includes the spiritual, political and social elements of life as well. As this is a community driven project, all aspects of TEK will be represented by community members...