Nunavut Tunngavik Inc. president Aluki Kotierk, left, along with other panelists including member of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues Tove Søvndahl Gant, political adviser on Indigenous peoples Aili Keskitalo and professor emerita at University of Iceland Birna Arnbjörnsdóttir, at the 2022 Arctic Circle Assembly on Indigenous languages in the Arctic (Photo courtesy of Nunavut Tunngavik Inc.)
Arctic policy-makers must know who Inuit are, Kotierk says as Arctic Circle Assembly wraps up
Inuit must be involved whenever the world discusses Arctic issues, says the head of the organization that represents Nunavut’s Inuit. “I get the sense from fellow Inuit that what we want is a seat at these discussions,” Nunavut Tunngavik Inc.
Gerri Sharpe, president of Pauktuutit Inuit Women of Canada, is seen here lighting a qulliq at New Zealand’s parliament in Wellington, the nation’s capital. Sharpe, along with federal Indigenous Services Minister Patty Hajdu, is part of a delegation of Canadian Indigenous leaders to the southern Pacific island nation to build relationships with Māori and government leaders. Both countries are working on an arrangement to promote socioeconomic development of Indigenous Peoples and communities, an emailed statement from Pauktuutit said. (Photo courtesy of Adrian Heke/Pauktuutit)
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