A Case of Access is an IPinCH-supported case study that brought together Inuvialuit elders, youth and cultural experts with anthropologists, museum curators and others to generate and document Inuvialuit and curatorial knowledge about objects in the MacFarlane Collection that are housed at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC, with a wider view to sharing and disseminating this knowledge in the Inuvialuit, anthropological, and interested public communities.
One of the tools that has been developed to facilitate access to this culturally and historically important museum collection are Teachers’ Guides and Lesson Plans covering five topics, with versions aimed at Grades 4 and 9 learning levels. The teaching resources can be downloaded from the Inuvialuit Pitqussit Inuuniariarutait – Inuvialuit Living History website.
