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.
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.
Carla Pamak, Inuit Research Advisor with the Nunatsiavut Research Centre, has been presented with the 2025 Inuit Recognition Award
“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.
“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
“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.
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.
This progress report describes the implementation status of the federal-led and Inuit-led actions since the release of the action plan.
In December 2021, the Government of Canada committed to closing the Inuit Nunangat infrastructure gap by 2030. This report supports those efforts by outlining the areas where Inuit Treaty Organizations recommend prioritizing investment.
Una tusaratsauliangusimajuq Natan Obed−mut, Angijuqqaangat Inuit Tapiriit Kanatamikkut, pijjutiqaqsuni Puvallunnaqtuq Nuvajjuarnaq−19
ᐅᓇ ᑐᓴᕋᑦᓴᐅᓕᐊᖑᓯᒪᔪᖅ ᓇᑖᓐ ᐆᕙᑦ−ᒧᑦ, ᐊᖏᔪᖅᑳᖓᑦ ᐃᓄᐃᑦ ᑕᐱᕇᑦ ᑲᓇᑕᒥᒃᑯᑦ, ᐱᔾᔪᑎᖃᖅᓱᓂ ᐳᕙᓪᓗᓐᓇᖅᑐᖅ ᓄᕙᔾᔪᐊᕐᓇᖅ−19
The following is a message from Natan Obed, President of Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, related to COVID-19
More than 113,900 masks, 563,000 wipes and 438 gallons of sanitizer have been delivered to help protect Inuit during the pandemic in communities throughout Nunavut, Nunavik, the Inuvialuit Settlement Region and Nunatsiavut.
No single nation, people or person can fight COVID-19 alone. It will take collective action to protect us.
ITK commends the Government of Canada for recognizing and responding to Inuit needs during the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has hit Inuit communities particularly hard.
In the pages of this double issue, we highlight the legacy of Nunavik’s late Elder Naalak Nappaaluk, the namesake for a new Coast Guard research vessel. From Nunavut, dogsledder Amber Aglukark shares about her journey learning to lead a team like her father before her, and what it felt like sharing that tradition with her son. We have a tale of knowledge transfer and land stewardship between hunters from Makkovik, Nunatsiavut, and Kangiqtugaapik (Clyde River), Nunavut. And from the Inuvialuit Settlement Region, we have a story of love across borders as a couple from Alaska and Aklavik navigate the legalities of...
THIS SUMMER ISSUE of Inuktitut magazine travels across Inuit Nunangat. In our cover feature you’ll find a success story that merges Inuit self‐determination with food security, thanks to an Inuvik‐based country food processing plant. Also from the West, we’ll hear the firsthand account of an Inuvialuit wildfire fighter who battled one of the many blazes that raged through the Northwest Territories in 2023.
Inuktitut Magazine Issue 130 dives deep into the past but also looks forward, to the future of Inuit art, culture and communications. Our cover, and a feature spread inside, showcase the award-winning contemporary photography of Ottawa-based Katherine Takpannie. We also bring you an interview with Lucy Tulugarjuk, managing director of Canada’s first 24-hour television channel in Inuktut and explore the issue of resale rights–and potential profits–on resold Inuit artworks.
JOB SUMMARY Reporting to the Manager of Communications, under the supervision of the Director, the Communications Coordinator is responsible for...
Overview Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami (ITK) is seeking a qualified designer or design agency to redesign Inuktitut magazine under its new name Inuktut....
JOB SUMMARY The Senior Policy Advisor plays a key role in advancing Inuit priorities and strengthening the policy environment that affects Inuit...
