THE PIONEERS SCHOLARSHIP FUND 

Amina Anthropological Resources Association is pleased to announce a yearly scholarship for graduate students conducting archaeological and anthropological research in northern Canada and Newfoundland-Labrador. The purpose of the fund is to honor the pioneers of northern Canadian anthropology by awarding a scholarship in their names to a graduate student of outstanding promise. Each year we will honor a different pioneer. Awards will be based on the promise of the student’s graduate research to make an outstanding contribution to our knowledge and understanding of the cultural heritage of northern peoples, past and present. 

The Harp Scholarship 

The initial 2006 Pioneers Fund award of $500 will be in the name of Dr. Elmer Harp, Jr. Dr. Harp is a particularly appropriate scholar to initiate this series since his seminal research has spanned the Canadian North from the Yukon through the Barren Grounds and Hudson Bay to Newfoundland-Labrador. He is best known for his work on prehistoric Palaeoeskimo sites in Newfoundland and Labrador, including pioneering research on the Dorset settlement at Port au Choix in the early 1960's, where he was able to demonstrate the relationship between eastern Arctic and Newfoundland Dorset Palaeoeskimo, and to illuminate many details of the then poorly understood Dorset culture. As the founder of Dartmouth’s anthropology department Dr. Harp trained a generation of northern researchers including William Fitzhugh of the Smithsonian and the late Richard Jordan of Bryn Mawr and the University of Alaska, and his own research was the precursor of major archaeological projects at Port au Choix by noted scholars Jim Tuck and Priscilla Renouf. Both a scholar and gentlemen, Elmer is regarded with great fondness as well as respect by all who know and learned from him. 

 

 

 

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