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Our latest issue of Inuktitut Magazine features stories about education, repatriation, cultural healing, Inuit wildlife monitoring, circumpolar politics, freshwater wealth in Inuit Nunangat and our favourite new TV show, North of North.
“There needs to be a reckoning from this,” said ITK President Natan Obed. “This is another chapter in a very dark legacy of this country’s history.”
Prime Minister Mark Carney showed off his ITK colours recently during a photo op in his office.
ITK, Inuit leaders, celebrate selection of Arviat, Nunavut, as Inuit Nunangat University main campus
ITK announces main campus of Inuit Nunangat University will be in Arviat, Nunavut. Watch livestream here.
“One of the driving forces of the strength of our society is our knowledge and our education. So having a university in Inuit Nunangat is going to be another step that we need to secure our country,” said ITK President Natan Obed.
Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, Inuit Circumpolar Council, Inuit Treaty Organization leaders and other Inuit delegates travelled to Kalaallit Nunaat in February to show support for Kalaallit sovereignty and self-determination and to celebrate the opening of the Canadian Consulate in Nuuk.
“No other nation states can come to us and tell us what we should have done, or what we have to do to maintain sovereignty over our homeland. We do that ourselves, and we’ve articulated that again and again over the past 200 years,” said ITK President Natan Obed
Using decades of remote sensing imagery, ITK has determined that Inuit Nunangat is home to 32% of Canada’s surface freshwater – more than the surface area of all five Great Lakes combined.
“The best thing we can do to counter that is to invest in our homeland, invest in our communities, invest in our people.”
