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The Federal Court ruled on June 12 that a Memorandum of Understanding signed by the NunatuKavut Community Council (NCC) and the federal Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations does not establish that the organization has Indigenous rights as defined by Section 35 of the Canadian Constitution.
Inuk artist Elisapie is one of three Indigenous leaders who will be celebrated on National Indigenous Peoples Day with the launch of new postage stamps.
Inuk artist Elisapie is one of three Indigenous leaders who will be celebrated on National Indigenous Peoples Day with the launch of new postage stamps.
ITK’s Board of Directors met in Ottawa May 29
IT WAS “A BIG STEP” FOR INUVIALUIT, says Brian Elanik, when—over the course of a week in September 2023—he and his team butchered the first 50 reindeer harvested from the regional herd. “That’s our herd that will supply the Inuvialuit Settlement Region with traditional meats and hides,” says Elanik, an operator at the Inuvialuit Regional Corporation’s Inuvik‐based Inuvialuit Country Food Processing Plant. “We brought them into the plant, hung them up, let the blood drain overnight. We made roasts, diced meat, ground meat, sausages, ribs. We try to utilize everything from the animal to provide for our people.”
IN 2020, when the COVID‐19 pandemic shut everything down, Natan Obed, President of Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, like many people, went searching for a distraction. What he chose would take him 18 months to complete and solve a 70‐year‐old mystery connected to his favourite set of hockey cards from 1955. Obed has been collecting hockey cards since his uncle Andy bought him his first packs when he was a child in Nain, Nunatsiavut. He’d lose himself in those uniformed faces, sorting and re‐sorting them according to statistics and scenarios. He probably owns about 100,000 cards today and still finds joy when he pulls them out.
IN BETWEEN CONCERTS and amid fine‐tuning for her national and international tours, Salluit songstress Elisapie Isaac found time to chat about her newest album Inuktitut, released in September 2023. The album is a collection of classics from the ’60s through to the ’90s, reimagined in Elisapie’s mother tongue and unique voice.
Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami is spearheading the establishment of a university in Inuit Nunangat. There is a great deal of work to make this vision a reality, but we are guided by our mission for a future in which Inuit students earn degrees in areas such as education, history and governance, health, medicine, and Inuktut, as well as environ mental sciences and engineering, all based upon Inuit ways of knowing and being.
