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About
Project: CIGEMON
Project:
CIGEMON was spearheaded by the South Slave Research Centre (SSRC), Aurora
College in Fort Smith, Northwest Territories. Since 1997, SSRC has provided
technology-based training to youth in the community. This training primarily
consisted of web site design (HTML and graphic design) as well as introducing
youth to technology skills, life-enhancement skills, entrepreneurial training,
etc.
This
web site is a digital collection of the games made through the SSRC program
called CIGEMON.
The games that were developed were:
- Hunting
Game
Sustenance hunting is still widely practised in the Northwest Territories
and the youth wanted to create a game reflecting this.
- Dog
Sledding Game
While a more traditional mode of transportation, this method is still
used although mostly as a recreation than a necessity.
- Hand
Games
A tribute made to the strategic Dene Hand Games that is played by Aboriginal
people in the Northwest Territories.
- Firefighting
Due to the vast geography of the Northwest Territories (the Northwest
Territories is 1.17 million square kilometres of mountains, forests
and tundra), fire suppression is a major summer activity. This is especially
true in Fort Smith as it is located in very close proximity to Wood
Buffalo National Park, the world's third largest park.
- Tile
Slide Game
This game was created as a fun exercise and the picture represented
is the gyrfalcon (Falco rusticolus), official bird of the Northwest
Territories. For more information on the symbols of the Northwest Territories
please see http://www.assembly.gov.nt.ca/VisitorInfo/Symbols/index.html.
About
South Slave Research Centre
SSRC is a community-based organization, a Research Centre of the Aurora
Research Institute (head office in Inuvik, NT) for Aurora College. The
SSRC office is located in the new wing of Thebacha Campus, Fort Smith.
The mission statement of Aurora College is: "Dedication to Excellence,
Leadership and Innovation in Northern Education and Research".
NWT BACKGROUND
There are 33 communities in the Northwest Territories (NWT) with a population
ranging from 36 in Kakisa to 17,275 people in Yellowknife ('96 Census).
In the NWT, 1/3 of the population was less than fifteen years of age.
33 % of the population (15 years plus) had a trade or other non-university
certificate. 20 % had high school without a diploma, 14% has < grade
nine, 14 % had a university degree, 9 % had university without a degree
and 8 % had obtained their high school diploma. More than half of the
NWT is non-aboriginal with Dene making up over 25%, Inuit 10%, and Metis
under 10%. 19 of the communities are more than 50% Dene, 5 communities
are more than 50% Inuit, 4 communities are more than 50% non-aboriginal.
Only 7 % of the population speaks an aboriginal language at home in all
of the NWT. http://www.stats.gov.nt.ca/CPWeb/NNWThome.html
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