“We understand that we are increasingly in the centre of a geopolitical fight that is not necessarily around our culture or our society, but is in our homeland, in our back yards,” Obed said.
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“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
Inuit across Canada stand in solidarity with our fellow Inuit in Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland) who have said unequivocally that they seek to determine their own future in the face of threats from the United States to buy or invade their country.
“We’ve heard almost a complete absence at the global stage about Inuit, and the term ‘Inuit’ to describe Greenland’s people, or even in conversations around Canadian sovereignty,” Obed said.
ITK President Natan Obed says it’s been challenging navigating new federal leadership
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.”
“We see every day other global actors acting with more urgency to assert dominance and power over the Arctic”
Carla Pamak, Inuit Research Advisor with the Nunatsiavut Research Centre, has been presented with the 2025 Inuit Recognition Award
This year’s Arctic Report Card confirms that the region has just logged its warmest year since 1900 – a new extreme that follows the general trend.
“Inuit continue to be hopeful that we will work towards that elimination timeline by 2030 with continued resources from our federal counterparts”
Other tools that were repatriated included a small ulu, a rope made out of seal skin, a tip of a harpoon, a ladle and a water pouch, among others.
