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The presidents of NTI, Makivik Corporation, Nunatsiavut, and the Inuvialuit Regional Corporation, the four regional land claims organizations, govern the national body, the Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami (ITK) as its board of directors. [1] NTI continues to play a central role in Nunavut, even after the creation of the Government of Nunavut.
Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami (Inuktitut syllabics: ᐃᓄᐃᑦ ᑕᐱᕇᑦ ᑲᓇᑕᒥ, meaning "Inuit are united in Canada"), [2] previously known as the Inuit Tapirisat of Canada (Eskimo Brotherhood of Canada), [3] [4] [5] is a nonprofit organization in Canada that represents over 65,000 Inuit across Inuit Nunangat and the rest of Canada. [6]
This was a real wake-up call for Inuit, and it stimulated the emergence of a new generation of young Inuit activists in the late 1960s. They began networking with one another across the Northwest Territories, Quebec and Labrador and in 1982, the Tunngavik Federation of Nunavut, or "TFN" had been incorporated to take over the claim negotiation ...
Former logo of the Inuit Circumpolar Conference. The Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC; formerly the Inuit Circumpolar Conference) is a multinational non-governmental organization (NGO) and Indigenous Peoples' Organization (IPO) representing the 180,000 Inuit and Yupik (sometimes referred to as Eskimo) people living in Alaska (United States), Canada, Greenland (Kingdom of Denmark), and the ...
The Inuit (sometimes referred to as Eskimo) are a group of culturally similar indigenous peoples inhabiting the Arctic regions of Alaska (United States), Greenland (Kingdom of Denmark), the Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Nunavik and Nunatsiavut , Canada. The list has been broken down by country: List of American Inuit
Throughout the 1970s, Inuit activists and organizers placed great focus on territorial autonomy and land rights issues. While organizations like Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami (ITK, formerly the Eskimo Brotherhood of Canada) [5] started to bring greater attention to preservation of Inuit culture and Indigenous rights, Inuit women felt that their daily struggles and issues which most directly impacted ...
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In 2008, Obed was a candidate in Nunatsiavut's first presidential election. [6] He was defeated by Jim Lyall.. On September 17, 2015, Obed was elected president of the Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, a national organization that represents Inuit across Canada. [7]