Natan obed biography of martin

In September, Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, which represents all Inuit land claims beneficiaries, was getting ready to elect its new president. Of the three candidates, Natan Obed was the only one who didn’t speak Inuktitut fluently. How could he expect to lead Inuit, one of his critics asked pointedly during the election assembly, when he couldn’t even speak their language? Had he lost touch with his culture? Obed coolly responded that language alone couldn’t determine his identity. He ultimately won the election, but the question hung in the air. If young Inuit are not growing up with their ancient cultural practices, are they still “Inuk” enough to claim that identity? We asked three young Inuit leaders to take the discussion further.

Is it in your blood?

“Historically there was no definition of blood quantum for Inuit,” says Obed. “It was: if you believed you were Inuk, if you lived like an Inuk, and if your community accepted you as an Inuk.” 

Now, with four Inuit land claims c

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Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami suggests I’m a criminal

I am a two-time alumnus of Dalhousie University. I began as a student in , as a faculty member in and am now a Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Peoples’ health and well-being. I am Inuk. I am also a member of NunatuKavut.

In an open letter released earlier this year. Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami’s (ITK) President Natan Obed suggested that inom, along with all members of NunatuKavut, are criminals.

“Before , NCC called itself the Labrador Métis Nation, and its members, including president Todd Russell, identified as Métis,” Obed says in the open letter.

Obed then equates the NunatuKavut Inuit with those falsely claiming Indigenous identities and claims we are “shape-shifters” threatening to take resources away from “real” Inuit.

What this fails to recognize is that the term “Métis” was always used as a way to reflect Inuit and mixed Inuit identities in Labrador. It was never used to assert an identity that was not reflective of the deep

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Chapter 6 Address by Natan Obed

President, Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami,. "Chapter 6 Address by Natan Obed". Sharing the Land, Sharing a Future: The Legacy of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, edited by Katherine A.H. Graham and David Newhouse, University of Manitoba Press, , pp.

President, inuit Tapiriit Kanatami (). Chapter 6 Address by Natan Obed. In K. Graham & D. Newhouse (Ed.), Sharing the Land, Sharing a Future: The Legacy of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples (pp. ). University of Manitoba Press.

President, Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami. Chapter 6 Address bygd Natan Obed. In: Graham, K. and Newhouse, D. ed. Sharing the Land, Sharing a Future: The Legacy of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples. University of Manitoba Press, pp.

President, Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami,. "Chapter 6 Address by Natan Obed" In Sharing the Land, Sharing a Future: The Legacy of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples edited by Katherine A.H. Graham and David Newhouse, Univers