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The Inuvialuit Settlement Region, abbreviated as ISR (Inuinnaqtun: Inuvialuit Nunangit Sannaiqtuaq – INS; French: Région désignée des Inuvialuit – RDI), located in Canada's western Arctic, was designated in 1984 in the Inuvialuit Final Agreement by the Government of Canada for the Inuvialuit people.
Land and self-government treaties with First Nations, Inuvialuit , and Métis groups recognise a significant amount of authority for their governments to manage land use within agreed-upon areas. These areas are each much larger than the area fully owned by the indigenous government.
The school was built in 1959 and the hospital, government offices and staff residences in 1960, when people, including Inuvialuit, Gwichʼin and Métis, began to live in the community. Naval Radio Station (NRS) Inuvik , later CFS Inuvik, callsign CFV, was commissioned on 10 September 1963 after operations had been successfully transferred from ...
Aklavik is one of the few places in the NWT to be included within two different land claims areas, being part of the Inuvialuit Settlement Region and the Gwich'in Settlement Region. [11] [12] The Inuvialuit, whose claim, the Inuvialuit Final Agreement was settled in 1984, [13] are represented by the Aklavik Community Corporation. It forms part ...
The area of the land covered by the Inuvialuit Settlement Region is 521,707.68 km 2 (201,432.46 sq mi). Aklavik ( Aklavik Indian Band , Ehdiitat Gwich’in Council ) and Inuvik ( Nihtat Gwich’in Council ) are shared with the Gwich’in people, who are represented by the Gwich’in Tribal Council .
At Saunaktuk ("place of bones"), [6] a site in the western "finger" area, [7] remains of at least 35 Inuvialuit women, elderly and children were found dating to the 14th or 15th century. The remains exhibited signs of violence and possibly cannibalism, and are consistent with Inuvialuit oral histories describing a Dene attack at that site. [8]
Tuktoyaktuk (/ ˌ t ʌ k t ə ˈ j æ k t ʌ k / TUK-tə-YAK-tuk; Inuvialuktun: Tuktuyaaqtuuq [təktujaːqtuːq], lit. ' it looks like a caribou ') [5] is an Inuvialuit hamlet near the Mackenzie River delta in the Inuvik Region of the Northwest Territories, Canada, at the northern terminus of the Inuvik–Tuktoyaktuk Highway.
The presidents of NTI, Makivik Corporation, Nunatsiavut, and the Inuvialuit Regional Corporation, the four regional land claims organizations, govern the national body, the Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami (ITK) as its board of directors. [1] NTI continues to play a central role in Nunavut, even after the creation of the Government of Nunavut.