John Amagoalik

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John Amagoalik OC (born November 26, 1947 near Inukjuaq ) is a Canadian politician. He campaigned for the rights of the Inuit and was instrumental in establishing the Canadian territory of Nunavut . He was chairman of the Nunavut Implementation Commission and is commonly considered to be the father of Nunavut .

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Amagoalik was born near Inukjuaq in northern Québec . When he was five, his family was relocated to Cornwallis Island by government order , with one of 17 High Arctic Exiles families.

From 1971 to 1974 he was the Baffin Regional Information Officer . During this time he began to campaign for Inuit rights. From 1977 to 1979 Amagoalik was head of the NWT Nunavut Land Claims Commission (NLCC). When the NLCC broke up, Amagoalik became a member of the Inuit Tapirisat of Canada (ITC). From 1979 to 1981 he was its vice-president, and from 1981 to 1985 and from 1988 to 1991 its president. From 1982 to 1985 he was vice chairman of the Inuit Committee on National Issues , from 1986 to 1987 Amagoalik was chairman of the Nunavut Constitutional Forum (NCF). From 1991 to 1993 Amagoalik served as political advisor to the Tungavik Federation of Nunavut (TFN).

After establishing the Nunavut Territory in 1993, Amagoalik was appointed Chief Commissioner of the Nunavut Implementation Commission (NIC).

Amagoalik has received several awards for his commitment to Inuit rights and Nunavut, including the National Aboriginal Achievement Award and an honorary doctorate from St. Mary's University in Halifax , Nova Scotia in 1997 . In 2019 he was appointed Officer of the Order of Canada .

Publications

  • John Amagoalik, Marion Soubliere: Nunavut Handbook: Traveling in Canada's Arctic , Nortext, 1998
  • John Amagoalik: What kind of country is this? In: Hans Ludwig Blohm , photographer and ed .: The voice of the indigenous people. The Canadian North and Alaska. M. u. H. von der Linden, Wesel 2002, p. 9f. (from the English by Fritz Hartz)

Web links

  • John Amagoalik: Alootook Ipellie, in Zs. Inuktitut, # 104, Winter 2008, pp. 40 - 45 (in three languages)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Article in Focus, 23 August 1999
  2. ↑ 6 Northerners Appointed to Order of Canada. In: CBC / Radio-Canada . Retrieved March 22, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Amagoalik, John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION political activist for Inuit rights
DATE OF BIRTH November 26, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH at Inukjuaq