{"id":514,"date":"2017-11-07T09:00:37","date_gmt":"2017-11-07T14:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inuitcircumpolar.com\/?p=514"},"modified":"2026-02-09T14:58:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T19:58:15","slug":"inuit-day-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inuitcircumpolar.com\/staging\/press-releases\/inuit-day-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Inuit Day 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\r\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\r\n<div class=\"column\">\r\n\r\nBonn, Germany and Ottawa, Canada\r\n\r\nToday Inuit celebrate unity and solidarity. Forty years ago Eben Hopson, the visionary Inupiat leader from Utqiagvik (Barrow), Alaska called on Inuit from Alaska, Canada, Greenland and Chukotka to work together in support each other, to defend Inuit Rights, and to make certain no Inuit community is left behind as change and development increases in the Arctic. Speaking from climate talks in Bonn, ICC Chair Okalik Eegeesiak said, \u201cas the world comes together to plan urgent positive action to mitigate human induced climate change and address its profound consequences we see a need and opportunity to bring Inuit knowledge and values forward.\u201d\r\n\r\nInuit from the four countries are also gathered this week in Ottawa for the ICC Wildlife Management Summit, \u201cIt is time we move the discussion from food security to food sovereignty. What we need to achieve is international collaboration on wildlife management in the Arctic. This is in line with the spirit of Inuit Day\u201d added James Stotts ICC Alaska President.\r\n\r\nDelegates to the Summit will join Inuit from Ottawa at a community feast to celebrate Inuit Day through music, country food and Inuit games hosted by Tungasuvvingat Inuit.\r\n\r\nICC Greenland President, Hjalmar Dahl reaffirmed \u201cInuit rights have been clearly articulated in the United Nations Declaration on Indigenous Rights and we continue to work with our countries to implement UNDRIP.\u201d\r\n\r\nWherever you are in the world please join Inuit today in celebrating Inuit cultural diversity and the contribution Inuit have made to the global community.\r\n\r\nFor more information contact:\r\nNatasha Latreille\r\nP: 613-563-2642\r\nEmail: nlatreille@inuitcircumpolar.com\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\r\n<div class=\"column\">\r\n\r\nInuit Circumpolar Council \u2013 Office of the Chair\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\r\n<div class=\"column\">\r\n\r\n75 Albert Street, Suite 1001 \u2219 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1P 5E7 \u2219 P: 613.563.2642 \u2219 F: 613.565.3089 \u2219 www.inuitcircumpolar.com\r\n\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":[25,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-25","category-press-releases"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inuitcircumpolar.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514","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=514"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.inuitcircumpolar.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":987515387,"href":"https:\/\/www.inuitcircumpolar.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions\/987515387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inuitcircumpolar.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inuitcircumpolar.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inuitcircumpolar.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}