{"id":1487,"date":"2012-10-16T14:49:26","date_gmt":"2012-10-16T18:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inuitcircumpolar.com\/?p=1487"},"modified":"2026-02-09T14:57:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T19:57:08","slug":"icc-chair-congratulates-canadian-inuit-leader-who-receives-prestigious-indigenous-achievement-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inuitcircumpolar.com\/staging\/press-releases\/icc-chair-congratulates-canadian-inuit-leader-who-receives-prestigious-indigenous-achievement-award\/","title":{"rendered":"ICC Chair congratulates Canadian Inuit leader who receives prestigious indigenous achievement award"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\r\n<div class=\"section\">\r\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\r\n<div class=\"column\">\r\n\r\n16 October 2012 \u2013 Nuuk, Greenland \u2013 Aqqaluk Lynge, Chair of the Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC) today congratulated ICC Canada President and ICC Vice-Chair for Canada, Duane Smith, for having received the prestigious 2013 Indspire Award for Politics.\r\n\r\nIndspire awards are given to Canadians who are both indigenous and an inspiration to others.\r\n\r\n\u201cThe Inuit Circumpolar Council is proud of Duane Smith's accomplishment. His Indspire award is testimony to the fact that hard political work and respect for those that have different opinions on challenging Arctic matters pays off\u201d. Mr. Lynge continued, \u201cDuane knows that making mutually- beneficial alliances with others without compromising Inuit values is key to improving and sustaining the Inuit way of life\u201d.\r\n\r\nThe President of Indspire stated that \u201ceach and every one of our Award recipients is a role model and a leader who has made a profound impact in their communities and across Canada\u201d.\r\n\r\nFor more information:\r\n\r\nInuit Circumpolar Council Chairs office: +299 32 36 32 Inuit Circumpolar Canada Office: +1 613 563 2642\r\n\r\nAqqaluk Lynge ICC Chair\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-30","category-press-releases"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inuitcircumpolar.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inuitcircumpolar.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inuitcircumpolar.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inuitcircumpolar.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inuitcircumpolar.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.inuitcircumpolar.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":987515335,"href":"https:\/\/www.inuitcircumpolar.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487\/revisions\/987515335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inuitcircumpolar.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inuitcircumpolar.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inuitcircumpolar.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}