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:
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
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