List of Canadian Inuit
Encyclopedia
This is a partial list of Canadian Inuit
. The Arctic
and subarctic
dwelling Inuit (formerly referred to as Eskimo
) are a group of culturally similar indigenous peoples inhabiting the Northwest Territories
, Nunavut
, Nunavik
(Quebec
) and Nunatsiavut
(Labrador
).
Inuit people
Inuit
The Inuit are a group of culturally similar indigenous peoples inhabiting the Arctic regions of Canada , Denmark , Russia and the United States . Inuit means “the people” in the Inuktitut language...
. The Arctic
Arctic
The Arctic is a region located at the northern-most part of the Earth. The Arctic consists of the Arctic Ocean and parts of Canada, Russia, Greenland, the United States, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Iceland. The Arctic region consists of a vast, ice-covered ocean, surrounded by treeless permafrost...
and subarctic
Subarctic
The Subarctic is a region in the Northern Hemisphere immediately south of the true Arctic and covering much of Alaska, Canada, the north of Scandinavia, Siberia, and northern Mongolia...
dwelling Inuit (formerly referred to as Eskimo
Eskimo
Eskimos or Inuit–Yupik peoples are indigenous peoples who have traditionally inhabited the circumpolar region from eastern Siberia , across Alaska , Canada, and Greenland....
) are a group of culturally similar indigenous peoples inhabiting the Northwest Territories
Northwest Territories
The Northwest Territories is a federal territory of Canada.Located in northern Canada, the territory borders Canada's two other territories, Yukon to the west and Nunavut to the east, and three provinces: British Columbia to the southwest, and Alberta and Saskatchewan to the south...
, Nunavut
Nunavut
Nunavut is the largest and newest federal territory of Canada; it was separated officially from the Northwest Territories on April 1, 1999, via the Nunavut Act and the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement Act, though the actual boundaries had been established in 1993...
, Nunavik
Nunavik
Nunavik comprises the northern third of the province of Quebec, Canada. Covering a land area of 443,684.71 km² north of the 55th parallel, it is the homeland of the Inuit of Quebec...
(Quebec
Quebec
Quebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....
) and Nunatsiavut
Nunatsiavut
Nunatsiavut is an autonomous area claimed by the Inuit in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. The settlement area includes territory in Labrador extending to the Quebec border. In 2002, the Labrador Inuit Association submitted a proposal for limited autonomy to the government of Newfoundland and...
(Labrador
Labrador
Labrador is the distinct, northerly region of the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. It comprises the mainland portion of the province, separated from the island of Newfoundland by the Strait of Belle Isle...
).
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- Eva Aariak, politician
- AcoutsinaAcoutsinaAcoutsina , daughter of chief Ouibignaro, was an Inuk from Labrador, in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, who taught François Martel de Brouague the language of her people. The word Acoutsina is believed to be a French derivation of an Inuit term, akutsiarq, meaning the beautiful...
, interpreter - Willie AdamsWillie AdamsWillie Adams is a Canadian Inuit politician who was a member of the Senate of Canada from 1977 to 2009.Adams was born in Fort Chimo, Quebec. He was appointed to the Senate by Governor General Jules Léger on the advice of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, on April 5, 1977, and is a member of the...
, politician - Susan AglukarkSusan AglukarkSusan Aglukark, OC , is an Inuk musician whose blend of Inuit folk music traditions with country and pop songwriting has made her a major recording star in Canada. Her most successful single is "O Siem", which reached #1 on the Canadian country and adult contemporary charts in 1995...
, singer and songwriter - Leona AglukkaqLeona AglukkaqLeona Aglukkaq, PC, MP is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the Canadian House of Commons as a Conservative in the 2008 Canadian federal election for the riding of Nunavut....
, politician - Olayuk AkesukOlayuk AkesukOlayuk Akesuk is a politician from Cape Dorset, Nunavut, Canada. Akesuk was the Member of the Legislative Assembly for the electoral district of South Baffin from 1999 to 2008, having won the seat in the 1999 Nunavut election...
, politician - David AlagalakDavid AlagalakDavid Alagalak is a Canadian politician, who was the Member of the Legislative Assembly for the electoral district of Arviat in the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut from 2004 to 2008....
, politician - Ovide AlakannuarkOvide AlakannuarkOvide Alakannuark is a former territorial level politician in Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut from 1999 until 2004....
, politician - Madeleine AllakariallakMadeleine AllakariallakMadeleine Allakariallak is a Canadian musician and television journalist. Formerly a member of the Inuit throat singing duo Tudjaat, from 2005 to 2007 she was also the host of the weekly newsmagazine series APTN National News Contact on the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network.Phoebe Atagotaaluk,...
, journalist and singer - Simeonie AmagoalikSimeonie AmagoalikSimeonie Amagoalik was an Inuit carver from Resolute, Nunavut, Canada. Amagoalik was born May 1, 1933 in Inukjuak, Northern Quebec. He died of cancer on March 2, 2011....
, Sculptor - Jack AnawakJack AnawakJack Iyerak Anawak is a Canadian politician. He represented the electoral district of Nunatsiaq in the Canadian House of Commons from 1988 to 1997. He sat in the house as a member of the Liberal Party of Canada...
, politician - Michael AngottitauruqMichael AngottitauruqMichael Angottitauruq Sr. is a former territorial and municipal level politician. He served as Mayor of Gjoa Haven and as a Member of the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories from 1987 to 1989....
, politician - Stephen AngulalikStephen AngulalikStephen Angulalik was an internationally known Ahiarmiut Inuit from northern Canada notable as a Kitikmeot fur trader and trading post operator at Kuugjuaq , Northwest Territories...
, fur trader - Moses AppaqaqMoses AppaqaqMoses Appaqaq Jr. is a soap stone carver former retail clerk, and a former territorial level politician from Sanikiluaq, Northwest Territories ....
, carver and politician
- Goo ArlooktooGoo ArlooktooGoo "Mosa" Arlooktoo was a politician and former cabinet minister from Northwest Territories, Canada...
, politician - Joe ArlooktooJoe ArlooktooJoe Arlooktoo is a northern Canadian artist, adept at soapstone and ivory carving, and a municipal and territorial level politician who was a Member of the Northwest Territories Legislature from 1979 until 1991...
, carver and politician - Titus AlloolooTitus AlloolooTitus Allooloo is a business man and former territorial level politician from Northwest Territories, Canada. He served as a member and cabinet Minister of the Northwest Territories Legislature through two terms from 1987 until 1995.-Politics:...
, politician - Germaine ArnaktauyokGermaine ArnaktauyokGermaine Arnaktauyok is an Inuit artist from Igloolik.Her artistic output consists of lithographs, etchings, and serigraphs that illustrate Inuit myths and traditional ways of life...
, artist - Silas Arngna'naaq, politician
- James ArreakJames ArreakJames Arreak is a territorial and municipal level politician in Canada. He has served as a member of both the Nunavut and Northwest Territories legislatures.Arreak is from Clyde River, Nunavut, Canada....
, politician - James ArvalukJames ArvalukJames Arvaluk is a politician from Coral Harbour, Nunavut, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Northwest Territories from 1991 to 1995 and a member of the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut from 1999 to 2003...
, politician - Kenojuak AshevakKenojuak AshevakKenojuak Ashevak, is regarded as one of the most notable Canadian pioneers of modern Inuit art.-Life:Kenojuak Ashevak was born in an igloo in an Inuit camp, Ikirasaq, at the southern coast of Baffin Island. At three years old, she lost her father. In 1952, she had to be treated for three years...
, artist and carver - Pitseolak Ashoona, artist
- Andrew AtagotaalukAndrew AtagotaalukThe Rt Rev.Andrew Atagotaaluk is the current Bishop of The Arctic and the first Inuk Bishop in the Anglican Communion.-Notes:...
, Bishop of The Arctic - AuaAua (Inuit)Aua was an Inuit angakkuq known for his anthropological input to Greenland anthropologist Knud Rasmussen. As a shaman practicing into the 1920s, Aua provided perspective on Inuit religion at a time when it was being subsumed by introduced Christianity.-Sources:*Penny Petrone. Northern Voices:...
, shaman - Moses AupaluktuqMoses AupaluktuqMoses Aupaluktuq is a territorial politician from Nunavut, Canada. He currently serves as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut since being first elected to office in 2008.-Political career:...
, politician
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- Levi BarnabasLevi BarnabasLevi Barnabas is a Canadian politician. He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Northwest Territories in 1995 and served until Nunavut was created in 1999...
, politician - Ernie BernhardtErnie BernhardtErnest Bernhardt is a former territorial level politician.Bernhardt was first elected to the Northwest Territories Legislature in the 1991 Northwest Territories general election...
, politician
- Paul-André BrasseurPaul-André BrasseurPaul-André Brasseur is a Canadian child actor of partly Inuit ancestry.-Filmography:* Ce qu'il faut pour vivre ; aka The Necessities of Life -External links:...
, actor - Levinia BrownLevinia BrownLevinia Brown is a Canadian politician, who served as the Member of the Legislative Assembly for the electoral district of Rankin Inlet South/Whale Cove in the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut from 2004 to 2008...
, politician
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- CaubvickCaubvickCaubvick was an Inuk from Labrador, a wife of one of George Cartwright's Inuit friends. The highest peak in all of Labrador and east of the Rockies is named in her honor, Mount Caubvick....
, Visited England, smallpox carrier - Nellie CournoyeaNellie CournoyeaNellie Cournoyea, OC is a former Canadian politician, who served as the sixth Premier of the Northwest Territories from 1991 to 1995...
, politician
- Charlie CrowCharlie CrowCharlie Crow is a former disc jockey and Member of the Northwest Territories Legislative Assembly from 1987 to 1991.-Early life:Crow became the first disc jockey for community radio station CKSN-FM when it opened in 1971...
, disc jockey and politician - Tagak CurleyTagak CurleyTagak Curley is an Inuit leader, politician and businessman from Nunavut. As a prominent figure in the negotiations that led to the creation of Nunavut, Tagak is considered a living father of confederation in Canada...
, businessman and politician
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- EbierbingEbierbingEbierbing , also known as "Joe," "Eskimo Joe," and "Joseph Ebierbing", c. 1837 - c. 1881, was a remarkable Inuit guide and explorer, who assisted several American Arctic explorers, among them Charles Francis Hall and Frederick Schwatka...
, explorer and guide - Edna EliasEdna EliasEdna Elias is a Canadian politician from Kugluktuk, Nunavut. On 12 May 2010 she was appointed as the 4th Commissioner of Nunavut by Prime Minister Stephen Harper....
, Commissioner of Nunavut - Tommy EnuaraqTommy EnuaraqTommy Enuaraq is a published author and former territorial level politician from Clyde River, Nunavut, Canada.He wrote a children's book Who's Going to Eat Me? ISBN 1-5503S242-9. The book was published by Nortex in 1991....
, author and politician - Elijah ErklooElijah ErklooElijah Erkloo is a former territorial level politician. He served as a Member of the Northwest Territories Legislature from 1983 until 1987.-Political career:...
, politician
- Tivi EtokTivi EtokTivi Etok is a Canadian Inuit artist, illustrator, and printmaker. In 1975, he was the first Inuk printmaker to have a collection of his own prints released. He is now an Inuk Elder.-Early years:...
, artist, illustrator, and printmaker - Mark EvaloarjukMark EvaloarjukMark Evaloarjuk, CM is a former northern Canadian business pioneer and politician. He served as a member of the Northwest Territories Legislature from 1975 until 1983, and served as President of Arctic Cooperatives Ltd...
, businessman and politician - Joe Allen EvyagotailakJoe Allen EvyagotailakJoe Allen Evyagotailak was born 15 July 1953 in Kugluktuk, Nunavut, Canada. Evyagotailak was the Member of the Legislative Assembly for the electoral district of Kugluktuk having won the seat in the 2004 Nunavut election....
, politician
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- Ann Meekitjuk HansonAnn Meekitjuk HansonAnn Meekitjuk Hanson was the Commissioner of Nunavut. She served from April 21, 2005 until April 10, 2010...
, politician - Donald HavioyakDonald HavioyakDonald Havioyak is a territorial level politician in Canada. He served as a member of the Nunavut Legislature.Havioyak was elected to the Nunavut legislature in the 1999 Nunavut general election. He won the Kugluktuk electoral district with a plurality of six votes defeating three other candidates...
, politician
- George HickesGeorge Hickes (politician)George Hickes, MLA is a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He has served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba since 1990, and has been the Speaker of the Assembly since 1999...
, politician
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- Joseph IdloutJoseph IdloutJoseph Idlout is an Inuit featured on the former Canadian two-dollar bill. When the High Arctic relocation occurred in 1959, Idlout helped Inuit families adjust to their new surroundings in Resolute, Northwest Territories ....
, featured on the former Canadian two-dollar billCanadian dollarThe Canadian dollar is the currency of Canada. As of 2007, the Canadian dollar is the 7th most traded currency in the world. It is abbreviated with the dollar sign $, or C$ to distinguish it from other dollar-denominated currencies... - Lucie IdloutLucie IdloutLucie Idlout is a Canadian rock singer.An Inuk from Iqaluit, Nunavut, she is the daughter of Leah Idlout d'Argencourt and granddaughter of Joseph Idlout, an Inuk hunter who was the subject of a National Film Board documentary, Between Two Worlds, in 1990 and was one of the Inuit hunters depicted...
, singer - Osuitok IpeeleeOsuitok IpeeleeOsuitok Ipeelee was an Inuit sculptor who lived in Cape Dorset, Nunavut. His sculptures in green soapstone of caribou and birds are particularly esteemed for their balance and delicacy...
, sculptor - Alootook IpellieAlootook IpellieAlootook Ipellie was an Inuit illustrator and writer. He specialized in black and white line drawings and illustrations. He is survived by his daughter, Taina Ipellie.-Publications:-External links:***...
, artist and author - David IqaqrialuDavid IqaqrialuDavid Iqaqrialu is a former territorial level politician from Nunavut, Canada. He served as a member of the Nunavut Legislature from 1999 until 2004.Iqaqrialu was first elected to the Nunavut Legislature in the 1999 Nunavut general election...
, politician
- Peter IrniqPeter IrniqPeter Taqtu Irniq is an Inuk politician in Canada, who served as the second Commissioner of Nunavut from April 2000 to April 2005.-Biography:...
, politician - Enoki IrqittuqEnoki IrqittuqEnoki Irqittuq is a former territorial level politician in Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut from 1999 until 2004....
, politician - Elisapie Isaac, singer
- Peter IttinuarPeter IttinuarPeter Freuchen K. Ittinuar is a Canadian politician. He was the first Inuk in Canada to be elected as an MP, and represented the electoral district of Nunatsiaq in the Canadian House of Commons from 1979 to 1984....
, politician
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- Helen KalvakHelen KalvakHelen Kalvak, CM was a Copper Inuit graphic artist from Ulukhaktok, Northwest Territories, Canada.-Early years:...
, artist - Nancy Karetak-LindellNancy Karetak-LindellNancy Karetak-Lindell is a former Canadian politician. Previously she was a financial comptroller and municipal councillor in Arviat, Karetak-Lindell ran for a seat in the Canadian House of Commons as a Liberal candidate in the 1997 federal election in the riding of Nunavut...
, politician - Peter KattukPeter KattukPeter Kattuk is currently the Member of the Legislative Assembly for the electoral district of Hudson Bay in the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut from 1999 to 2008....
, politician - Simeonie KeenainakSimeonie KeenainakSimeonie Keenainak is an Inuit accordionist and retired RCMP officer from Pangnirtung, Nunavut, Canada. He is also a photographer and hunter. He has performed at the Pangnirtung Music Festival and was featured in regional and national media for his musicianship and cultural community...
, musician - KikkikKikkikKikkik was an Inuit woman who, in 1958, was charged with but acquitted of murder, child neglect and causing the death of one of her children. Her story was told by Farley Mowat.- Relocation :...
, survivor - Ipeelee KilabukIpeelee KilabukIpeelee Kilabuk was a territorial level politician from Pangnirtung, Northwest Territories, Canada.Kilabuk was first elected to the Northwest Territories Legislature in the 1975 Northwest Territories general election. He ran for re-election in the 1979 Northwest Territories general election but...
, politician - Peter KilabukPeter KilabukPeter Kilabuk is a Canadian politician, who was the Member of the Legislative Assembly for the electoral district of Pangnirtung in the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut from 1999 to 2008....
, politician - KiviaqKiviaqKiviaq is a Canadian Inuit lawyer, politician, and former sportsman. He was the first Inuk to become a lawyer, and is responsible for several important advances in establishing the legal rights of the Inuit people; in 2001, he won the legal right to use his single-word Inuktituk name.Born outside...
, activist, politician and sportsman
- Adamee KomoartokAdamee KomoartokAdamee Komoartok is a Canadian politician, who was elected as the Member of the Legislative Assembly for the electoral district of Pangnirtung in the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut in the 2008 territorial election....
, politician - Peter KritaqlilukPeter KritaqlilukPeter Kritaqliluk is a former mayor of Arviat, Nunavut, Canada. He is the chair of the Nunavut Implementation Training Committee. Kritaqliluk was also Nunavut Trust chair from 1990 to 2002. Nunavut Trust invests the $1.1 billion in federal payments being paid out under the Nunavut Land Claims...
, politician - Zacharias KunukZacharias KunukZacharias Kunuk, is a Canadian Inuk producer and director most notable for his film Atanarjuat, the first Canadian dramatic feature film produced completely in Inuktitut...
, producer/director - Floyd KuptanaFloyd KuptanaFloyd Kuptana is an Inuit sculptor born in the former settlement at Cape Parry and moved to nearby Paulatuk, Northwest Territories, Canada. He began his career as an apprentice to fellow sculptor David Ruben Piqtoukun. He has produced his own work since leaving the apprenticeship in 1992, and now...
, carver - Jose KusugakJose KusugakJose Kusugak was an Inuk politician from Repulse Bay, Nunavut, Canada. He moved, along with his family, to Rankin Inlet in 1960....
, politician - Lorne KusugakLorne KusugakLorne Kusugak is a Canadian politician, who is Member of the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut for the electoral district of Rankin Inlet South/Whale Cove, having won the seat in the 2008 Nunavut election. Prior to becoming an MLA, Kusugak was the mayor of Rankin Inlet...
, politician - Michael KusugakMichael KusugakMichael Arvaarluk Kusugak And stays in Vancouver Island in the winter. He is a Canadian children's writer and storyteller, who writes about Arctic and Inuit culture...
, author - Nellie KusugakNellie KusugakNellie T. Kusugak of Rankin Inlet, Nunavut was the Deputy Commissioner of Nunavut in 2010. Kusugak was appointed to the position of deputy by Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, Chuck Strahl, on 15 February 2010 and was sworn in on 25 February....
, Deputy Commissioner of Nunavut
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- Helen MaksagakHelen MaksagakHelen Mamayaok Maksagak, CM was a Canadian politician. She served as the Commissioner of the Northwest Territories from January 16, 1995 until March 26, 1999 and as the Commissioner of Nunavut from April 1, 1999 until April 1, 2000...
, politician - Steve MapsalakSteve MapsalakSteve Mapsalak is a Canadian politician, who has served as the Member of the Legislative Assembly for the electoral district of Akulliq in the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut. He won the seat in the 2004 Nunavut election.According to preliminary results, he was narrowly defeated by John Ningark...
, politician - MikakMikakMikak born Labrador, Canada and died at Nain, Newfoundland and Labrador. Mikak, daughter of Inuk chief Nerkingoak, was very influential in creating friendly relationship with traders from Europe and native Labradoreans...
, interpreter and missionary
- Rebecca MikeRebecca MikeRebecca Mike is a former territorial level politician.Mike was elected to the Northwest Territories Legislature in the 1991 Northwest Territories general election. She won the Baffin Central electoral district defeating incumbent Ipeelee Kilabuk and former MLA Pauloosie Paniloo...
, politician - Andy MikiAndy MikiAndy Miki was an Inuit artist from Arviat, Nunavut.His works are mainly in soapstone, and are often geometric abstractions.While the abstract work of John Pangnark focused on the human figure, Miki's work abstracted animals, often to such a degree that only by the title could weasels and bears be...
, carver
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- NakasukNakasukNakasuk was an Inuk who was born at a sealing camp near Pangnirtung, Nunavut in the early 20th century and grew up around Kimmirut . He assisted a US Navy party wintering on Baffin Island during the 1941-1942 winter to find a suitable location for a US air base...
, founded Iqaluit - Patterk NetserPatterk NetserPatterk Netser is a Canadian politician, who was the Member of the Legislative Assembly for the electoral district of Nanulik in the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut from 2004 to 2008....
, politician - John NingarkJohn NingarkJohn Ningark is a territorial level politician in Canada. He is a former member of the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories, and a current member of the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut.-Political history:...
, politician
- Johnny NingeonganJohnny NingeonganJohnny Ningeongan is a Canadian politician, who was elected as the Member of the Legislative Assembly for the electoral district of Nanulik in the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut in the 2008 territorial election....
, politician - William NoahWilliam NoahWilliam Noah is a former territorial level politician and artist. He served as a member of the Northwest Territories Legislature from 1979 until 1982....
, artist and politician - Jobie NutarakJobie NutarakJobie Nutarak was a politician from Nunavut in northern Canada.Nutarak was born in Pond Inlet on Baffin Island. He was elected to the district of Tunnuniq in 1999 and was re-elected in 2004. In 2004 he was elected to the position of Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut, being the first...
, politician
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- Paul OkalikPaul OkalikPaul Okalik MLA is a Canadian politician. He is the first Inuk member called to the Nunavut Bar, the first Premier of Nunavut and the only multi-term premier of a Canadian territory....
, politician - Abe OkpikAbe OkpikAbe "Abraham" Okpik, CM was an Inuit community leader in Canada. He instrumental in helping Inuit obtain surnames rather than disc numbers...
, politician
- Jessie OonarkJessie OonarkJessie Oonark, OC was a Canadian Inuit artist who is best known for her wall hangings and her prints.-Biography :...
, artist - OrpingalikOrpingalikOrpingalik was a Netsilik Inuit angakkuq and oral poet who provided anthropological input to Danish explorer Knud Rasmussen during the latter's 1921-1924 expedition....
, poet and shaman
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- John PangnarkJohn PangnarkJohn Pangnark was an Inuit sculptor and native of Arviat, Nunavut. His work is notable for its frequent use of geometric abstraction and its nearly exclusive focus on the human figure. His work is in the collections of the Dennos Museum Center and the National Gallery of Canada.-External links:* -...
, sculptor - Charlie PanigoniakCharlie PanigoniakCharlie Panigoniak is an Inuit singer-songwriter and guitarist whose albums reflect on northern life....
, musician, singer and songwriter - Pauloosie PanilooPauloosie PanilooPauloosie Paniloo was a territorial level politician. He served as a member of the Northwest Territories Legislature from 1983 to 1987. He was also a member of the Canadian Rangers, serving as a ranger for 28 years.-Canadian Rangers:Paniloo joined the Canadian Rangers in 1979...
, politician - ParrParr (artist)Parr was an Inuit artist who lived a traditional Inuit lifestyle until 1961, when he settled in Cape Dorset because of declining health and a hunting accident....
, artist - Enuk PauloosieEnuk PauloosieEnuk Pauloosie was a Canadian politician, who was elected as the Member of the Legislative Assembly for the electoral district of Nattilik in the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut in the 2008 territorial election. His riding of Nattilik encompasses the communities of Gjoa Haven, Nunavut and Taloyoak,...
, politician - Lena Pedersen, politician
- David Ruben PiqtoukunDavid Ruben PiqtoukunDavid Ruben Piqtoukun is an Inuit artist from Paulatuk, Northwest Territories. His output includes sculpture and prints; the sculptural work is innovative in its use of mixed media. His materials and imagery bring together modern and traditional Inuit stylistic elements in a personal vision...
, artist and carver - Peter PitseolakPeter PitseolakPeter Pitseolak was an Inuit photographer, artist and historian.-Life:]...
, artist, historian and photographer
- Annabella PiugattukAnnabella PiugattukAnnabella Piugattuk is a Canadian Inuit actress, notable for her role in The Snow Walker. Piugattuk was raised in Igloolik, a village with a population of 1,286 in the Nunavut territory of Canada...
, actor - Looty PijaminiLooty PijaminiLooty Pijamini is an Inuit artist. He lives and works in Grise Fiord, Nunavut.Pijamini was born November 14, 1953, in Clyde River, Nunavut,...
, sculptor - Annie PootoogookAnnie PootoogookAnnie Pootoogook is a Canadian contemporary Inuit artist. Her influences include her mother, Napatchie Pootoogook , and her grandmother, Pitseolak Ashoona , both of whom were accomplished artists.-Artwork:Pootoogook began drawing in 1997, working with the disarmingly simple media...
, artist - Kananginak PootoogookKananginak PootoogookKananginak Pootoogook , was an Inuk sculptor and printmaker who lived in Cape Dorset, Nunavut. He died as a result of complications related to surgery for lung cancer.-Biography:...
, sculptor and printmaker - Kenoayoak PudlatKenoayoak PudlatKenoayoak Pudlat is a former territorial level politician.Pudlat was elected to the Baffin South electoral district in the 1991 Northwest Territories general election. He defeated long serving incumbent Joe Arlooktoo. Pudlat did not return to the Legislature in 1995.-External links:*...
, politician - Pudlo PudlatPudlo PudlatPudlo Pudlat , was a widely known Inuit artist whose preferred medium was a combination of acrylic wash and coloured pencils. His works are in the collections of most Canadian museums...
, artist - Ludy PudlukLudy PudlukLudy Pudluk is a retired territorial level politician and former cabinet minister currently and current climate change activist residing in Resolute Nunavut, Canada....
, politician - Uriash PuqiqnakUriash PuqiqnakUriash Puqiqnak, CM is an experienced soapstone carver and former territorial and municipal level politician in Canada. He served as Mayor of Gjoa Haven, Nunavut and was a member of the Nunavut Legislature from 1999 until 2004.-Carving:...
, carver and politician
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- Andrew QappikAndrew QappikAndrew Qappik is a Canadian Inuit graphic artist currently residing in Pangnirtung, Nunavut. Qappik is known for his printmaking and his contribution to the Nunavut Coat of arms....
, artist - Tumasi QuissaTumasi QuissaTumasi Quissa at a camp near Akulivik, Quebec, Canada is a singer-songwriter and a carver. Tumasi and his brother performed a few songs live on Canadian national television as part of 1981's Canada Day celebration, and they were such a hit that CBC Northern Service Broadcast Recordings decided to...
, carver, singer and songwriter
- Taamusi QumaqTaamusi QumaqTaamusi Qumaq, was an Inuit elder from Canada who contributed to the preservation of Inuit language and traditional culture. Despite lacking any formal schooling, Qumaq published two seminal works to the Inuit culture: a 30,000-word comprehensive Inuktitut dictionary and an encyclopedia on Inuit...
, encyclopaedist
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- Madeleine RedfernMadeleine RedfernMadeleine Redfern is a Canadian Inuit politician, who was elected mayor of Iqaluit, Nunavut in a by-election on December 13, 2010. She was born in Frobisher Bay, Northwest Territories ....
, politician, Mayor of Iqaluit, NunavutIqaluit, NunavutIqaluit is the territorial capital and the largest community of the Canadian territory of Nunavut. Iqaluit is located on the south coast of Baffin Island at the head of Frobisher Bay. As of the 2006 census the population was 6,184, an increase of 18.1 percent from the 2001 census; it has the...
- Todd RussellTodd RussellTodd Norman Russell is a Canadian politician and was the Liberal member of Parliament for the riding of Labrador, Newfoundland and Labrador from 2005 to 2011.-Early life:...
, politician, Métis of Inuit descent
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- Pauta SailaPauta SailaPauta Saila was an Inuit artist from Kilaparutua, Baffin Island, Canada.His works were massive, simplified depictions of Arctic wildlife, and are mainly in soapstone. He resided in Cape Dorset, Nunavut.-References:...
, artist - Eric SchweigEric SchweigEric Schweig is a First Nations actor best known for his role as Chingachgook's son Uncas in The Last of the Mohicans .-Early life:...
, actor, Inuit/German - Elisapee SheutiapikElisapee SheutiapikElisapee Sheutiapik served as mayor of Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada. She won the mayoral election in 2003, defeating the incumbent mayor John Matthews by 40 votes, and was acclaimed to a second term in 2006...
, politician - John ShiwakJohn ShiwakJohn Shiwak born Rigolet, Labrador, Canada and died at Masnieres, France, when a German shell exploded killing him and six of his fellow soldiers during the First World War...
, World War I sniper - Nick SikkuarkNick SikkuarkNick Sikkuark is an Inuit artist from Kugaaruk, Nunavut.His works are mainly in whale bone, caribou antler, and walrus ivory, and are characterized by "droll, macabre wit"-Biography:...
, carver
- David SimailakDavid SimailakDavid Simailak from Baker Lake was the Member of the Legislative Assembly for the electoral district of Baker Lake having won the seat in the 2004 Nunavut election...
, politician - Mary SimonMary SimonMary J. May Simon, is a former Canadian diplomat and current fellow with the Arctic Institute of North America. Early in her career, she was a producer and announcer for CBC North, and later entered public service as secretary of the board for the Northern Quebec Inuit Association...
, activist and politician - Donald SulukDonald SulukDonald Suluk was an Inuit religious figure who preached a syncretic form of Christianity in Nunavut in the 1940s....
, religious figure - Thomas SulukThomas SulukThomas Suluk is a former Canadian politician. He represented the electoral district of Nunatsiaq in the Canadian House of Commons from 1984 to 1988 as a member of the Progressive Conservatives.-External links:...
, politician
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- Tagaq, artist and singer
- Joe TaliruniliJoe TaliruniliJoe Talirunili was an Inuit printmaker and sculptor, who would sometimes draw. There are two different places listed of where the artist was born, Qugaaluk River camp, Quebec, or 50 kilometers north of Puvirnituq in Nunavik Province, Quebec, at Neahungnik camp Another mystery is when the artist...
, printmaker and sculptor - Louis TapardjukLouis TapardjukLouis Tapardjuk in an igloo northwest of Igloolik, Nunavut) is currently the Member of the Legislative Assembly for the electoral district of Amittuq having won the seat in the 2004 Nunavut election...
, politician - Peter TaptunaPeter TaptunaPeter Taptuna is a Canadian politician, who was elected as the Member of the Legislative Assembly for the electoral district of Kugluktuk in the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut in the 2008 territorial election...
, politician - Ningeokuluk TeeveeNingeokuluk TeeveeNingeokuluk Teevee is a Canadian Inuk writer and artist. Her first children's book, Alego, is currently a nominee for the 2009 Governor General's Award for children's literature illustration.-References:...
, artist and author - Manitok ThompsonManitok ThompsonManitok Catherine Thompson is a politician from northern Canada.Manitok was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Northwest Territories in a by-election held on May 8, 1995 held following the resignation of James Arvaluk...
, politician - Irene Avaalaaqiaq TiktaalaaqIrene Avaalaaqiaq TiktaalaaqIrene Avaalaaqiaq Tiktaalaaq is an Inuit artist who was born at Princess Mary Lake near Baker Lake, Nunavut, Canada. She moved to Baker Lake in 1958 to give birth to one of her children....
, artist
- John TiktakJohn TiktakJohn Tiktak was a Canadian Inuk sculptor who spent most of his artistic career in Rankin Inlet. Most of his sculptures take the human form as their subject.-Biography:...
, sculptor - Kane TologanakKane TologanakKane Tologanak is a Copper Inuit and former Member of the Northwest Territories Legislature from 1979 to 1983.Tologanak was first elected to the Northwest Territories Legislature in the 1979 Northwest Territories general election. He served one term and did not return when the legislature was...
, politician - TookoolitoTookoolitoTookoolito known as "Hannah" among whalers of Cumberland Sound, was an Inuk woman who served as translator and guide to Charles Francis Hall, an Arctic explorer involved in the search for Franklin's lost expedition in the 1860s and 1870's...
, guide and interpreter - Simon TookoomeSimon TookoomeSimon Tookoome was an Utkusiksalingmiut Inuk artist. In his youth, Tookoome and other Utkusiksalingmiut lived along the Back River and in Gjoa Haven on King William Island...
, artist - Hunter TootooHunter TootooHunter Tootoo is a politician in Nunavut, Canada. He is a current member of the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut, and has also sought election to the Canadian House of Commons....
, businessman and politician - Jordin TootooJordin TootooJordin John Kudluk Tootoo is a Canadian professional ice hockey player with the Nashville Predators of the National Hockey League . He is both the first Inuk player and the first player who grew up in Nunavut to participate in an NHL game....
, sportsman - Victor TungilikVictor TungilikVictor Tungilik was an Inuit religious figure who was both a Christian and a traditional angakkuq of Anglican parents. Tungilik later eschewed his angakkuq practices and moved to Naujaat....
, shaman
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- Jeannie UgyukJeannie UgyukJeannie Ugyuk is a Canadian politician, who was elected as the Member of the Legislative Assembly for the electoral district of Nattilik in the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut in the 2010 by-election. Her riding of Nattilik encompasses the communities of Gjoa Haven and Taloyoak, Nunavut...
, politician - Abraham UlrikabAbraham UlrikabAbraham Ulrikab was an Inuk from Hebron, Labrador, in the present day province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, who — along with his family — was to become a zoo exhibit in Europe in 1880 as an attraction at the Hamburg, Germany public zoo.Ulrikab, along with his wife and two...
, zoo exhibit - UmikUmikUmik was an Inuit angakkuq who proclaimed himself a Christian evangelist and began to preach to the Igloolik Inuit in the 1920s....
, shaman and religious figure
- Natar UngalaaqNatar UngalaaqNatar Ungalaaq is a Canadian Inuit actor, filmmaker, and sculptor whose artwork is in many major collections of Inuit art worldwide...
, actor, carver and producer/director - UvavnukUvavnukUvavnuk was a female angakkuq of the Iglulik Inuit in the early 20th century, and now considered an oral poet.Uvavnuk has been written about in several books on mysticism. A common report is that she experienced a "glowing ball of fire in the sky" and afterwards gained a "telepathic sensitivity"...
, poet and shaman
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- Charlie WattCharlie WattCharlie Watt is a Canadian Senator.A hunter and businessman by profession, Watt is an Inuk and served as Northern officer with the Department of Indian and Northern Affairs from 1969 to 1979. He founded the Northern Quebec Inuit Association in the 1970s...
, politician - Sheila Watt-CloutierSheila Watt-CloutierSheila Watt-Cloutier, OC is a Canadian Inuit activist. She has been a political representative for Inuit at the regional, national and international levels, most recently as International Chair for Inuit Circumpolar Council...
, activist and politician
- Rebekah WilliamsRebekah WilliamsRebekah Uqi Williams is a former territorial level politician. She served as a member of the Nunavut Legislature from 2000 until 2004.Williams was elected in a by-election in the Quttiktuq electoral district on December 4, 2000...
, politician
See also
- List of American Inuit
- List of Greenlandic Inuit
- List of First Nations people
- List of Métis people
- Notable Aboriginal people of CanadaNotable Aboriginal people of CanadaOver the course of centuries, many Aboriginal Canadians have played a critical role in shaping the history of Canada. From art and music, to law and government, to sports and war; Aboriginal customs and culture have had a strong influences on defining Canadian culture...