Services

Consulting services provided by Wolverine & Associates Inc. include:

• land use and occupancy ("Traditional Use") research related to treaty and land rights/negotiations, forestry and wildlife co-management, environmental impact assessment, and comprehensive land use planning;

• research related to indigenous “sense of place,” the meaningfulness of the land, animals, and land use practices rooted in tradition;

• environmental impact assessment of linear transportation corridors, hydro-electric projects, mines, military training and other activities on indigenous land use and occupancy, “sacred sites” and heritage resources;

• Local Environmental Knowledge (aka Traditional Ecological Knowledge, TEK, TK, IQ) research;

• place names (toponymic) research;

• research and programming related to the protection and transmission of oral tradition;

• museum exhibits, virtual museums (internet) and cultural websites;

• technical review of  environmental assessment reports and other documents with respect to land use and occupancy, harvesting, Local Environmental Knowledge (LEK/TEK), land use planning, social-economic effects, “sacred” sites, historic and heritage resources;

• scientific management (e.g. environmental assessment);

• technical support in treaty (land rights/claims) negotiations in particular historic and heritage resources, place names, land selection;

• technical support in co-management contexts.

Examples of Peter Armitage's consulting work which are in the public domain include:

• 2020. A Varroa Action Plan for Newfoundland and Labrador (with David T. Peck and Steve Walsh)
   

• 2018. Yukon North Slope Inuvialuit Traditional Use Study. Wildlife Management Advisory Council (North Slope) and Aklavik Hunters and Trappers Committee, Whitehorse, Yukon.

• 2015. (with Stephen Kilburn). Conduct of Traditional Knowledge Research: A Reference Guide. Whitehorse, Yukon: Wildlife Management Advisory Council (North Slope).
   

• 2015. Inuvialuit and Nanuq: A Polar Bear Traditional Knowledge Study. Joint Secretariat, Inuvialuit Settlement Region. Processed data, held confirmation/validation workshops, conducted supplementary research, wrote report.
   

• 2011. An Assessment of Lower Churchill Project Effects on Labrador Innu Land Use and Occupancy. Report to Innu Nation (Sheshatshiu and Natuashish, Labrador). Submitted to the Joint Review Panel for the Environmental Assessment of the Lower Churchill Hydroelectric Generation Project.
   

• 2010. Innu of Labrador Contemporary Land Use Study. Report to Innu Nation (Sheshatshiu and Natuashish, Labrador). Submitted to the Joint Review Panel for the Environmental Assessment of the Lower Churchill Hydroelectric Generation Project.
   

• 2007. Innu Kaishitshissenitak Mishta-shipu: Innu Environmental Knowledge of the Mishta-shipu (Churchill River) Area of Labrador in Relation to the Proposed Lower Churchill Project. Report of the work of the Innu Traditional Knowledge Committee to the joint Innu Nation - Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro Task Force. Submitted to the Joint Review Panel for the Environmental Assessment of the Lower Churchill Hydroelectric Generation Project.
   

• 2006. Report on the fieldtrip to Ushkan-shipiss, October 14, 2006. Report to Innu Nation. Submitted to the Joint Review Panel for the Environmental Assessment of the Lower Churchill Hydroelectric Generation Project.
   

• 2003. (with Marianne Stopp) Labrador Innu Land Use in Relation to the Proposed Trans Labradar Highway, Cartwright Junction to Happy Valley-Goose Bay, and Assessment of Highway Effects on Innu Land Use. Report to Department of Works, Services and Transportation, Government of Newfoundland and Labrador.

Examples of Peter Armitage's museum and cultural website work include:

• virtual museum, Tipatshimuna, which received the Canadian Museum Association’s 2006 Outstanding Achievement Award in the multimedia category, and ICOM's International Committee for the Audiovisual and New Image and Sound Technologies (AVICOM) Prix Web'Art d'Or (2007) de l'exposition virtuelle.
   

• Pepamuteiati nitassinat, a cultural website dedicated to Innu place names and sense of place. This is one of the first comprehensive indigenous place name websites in the world.

Clients have included:

• Eel River Bar First Nation (New Brunswick)

• St. Mary's First Nation on behalf of the six Wolastoqey (Maliseet) First Nations (New Brunswick)

• Pic Mobert First Nation (Ontario)

• Wahgoshig First Nation (Ontario)

• Constance Lake First Nation (Ontario)

• Asubpeeschoseewagong Netum Anishinabeg (Grassy Narrows First Nation) (Ontario)

• Selkirk First Nation (Yukon)

• Linguistics department, Memorial University (Newfoundland & Labrador)

• Wildlife Management Advisory Councils (Yukon & NWT), Joint Secretariat

• Innu Nation (Labrador)

• Sheshatshiu Innu School, Sheshatshiu Innu First Nation (Labrador)

• Mamit-Innuat (Quebec)

• Natural Resources Canada (Geographical Names Board of Canada)

• Department of Public Works, Services and Transportation, Government of Newfoundland and Labrador (at the request of Innu Nation)

• Department of National Defence, Government of Canada (at the request of Innu Nation)

• Department of Canadian Heritage (at the request of Innu Nation)

• Provincial Museum, The Rooms (St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador) (at the request of the Innu Nation)

Peter Armitage has conducted research in the following indigenous communities:

Unaman-shipu (La Romaine), Quebec
Sheshatshiu, Labrador
Utshimassit/Natuashish, Labrador
Wahgoshig, Ontario
Constance Lake, Ontario
Asubpeeschoseewagong (Grassy Narrows), Ontario
Pic Mobert, Ontario
Sachs Harbour, Inuvialuit Settlement Region (ISR)
Ulukhaktok, ISR
Paulatuk, ISR
Tuktoyaktuk, ISR
Inuvik, ISR
Aklavik, ISR
Madawaska, New Brunswick
Tobique, New Brunswick
Woodstock, New Brunswick
Kingsclear, New Brunswick
Oromocto, New Brunswick
St. Mary's, New Brunswick
Eel River Bar, New Brunswick

Contact

Peter Armitage
Wolverine & Associates Inc.
PO Box 1441, Stn.C
St. John's, Newfoundland, A1C 5N8
tel. (709) 685-5328
e-mail: armitage_peter at bellaliant dot net

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