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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 ...
Legislation creating it in 1984 formed part of the Inuvialuit Final Agreement (officially, the Western Arctic (Inuvialuit) Claims Settlement Act (1984)). [3] It provided for cooperative management of the Landmark between the Government of Canada , the Inuvialuit Land Administration, and the people of Tuktoyaktuk.
The pinnacle of Steen's municipal career, came when he was elected mayor of Tuktoyaktuk for a year in 1980. Four years later he became a board member of the Tuktoyaktuk Community Corporation. His last board posting was as Chief of the Inuvialuit Land Administration Committee for the Inuvialuit Regional Corporation, from 1986 until 1989. [1]
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 ...
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 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 .