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New ICC Canada President

April 8, 2016 – Ottawa, ON – The board of the Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC) Canada appointed today a new president.

Ms. Karetak-Lindell said she was honoured to have been given the confidence of the Inuit leaders who represent the four Inuit land claims organizations in Canada.

As ICC Canada president, Ms. Karetak-Lindell becomes the ICC Vice Chair for Canada on the (international) Inuit Circumpolar Council.

Nancy Karetak-Lindell is the former director of the Jane Glassco Northern Fellowship with the Walter and Duncan Gordon Foundation, and served as a federal Member of Parliament for the riding of Nunavut from 1997 to 2008.

The new ICC Canada President’s term is until July 2018, just prior to the next quadrennial ICC General Assembly to be held in Barrow, Alaska and hosted by ICC Alaska.

For more information: Corinne Gray
P: 613-563-2642

The Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC) is an Indigenous Peoples’ Organization (IPO), founded in 1977 to promote and celebrate the unity of 180,000 Inuit from Alaska (USA), Canada, Greenland, and Chukotka (Russia). ICC works to promote Inuit rights, safeguard the Arctic environment, and protect and promote the Inuit way of life. In regard to climate change, we believe that it is crucial for world leaders and governments to recognize, respect and fully implement the human rights of Inuit and all other Indigenous peoples across the globe.