Abstract
Between October 1992 and January 1993, Pauktuutit (Inuit Women’s Association of Canada) conducted interviews with seventy-seven Inuit elders as part of a research project on traditional Inuit practices related to pregnancy and childbirth. Except for a few interviews in the Western Arctic region, all of the elders spoke in their own dialect of Inuktitut. The interviews took the form of oral narratives and were recorded on audio tape. For two years, Inuit translators worked to produce English transcripts of the interviews. To assist in the qualitative analysis of such a large database, a computer programme was employed. The interviews contain data on Inuit midwifery, traditional birthing techniques, and health promotion practices as well as ethnographic, historical, and linguistic material and life histories.
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