Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami welcomes today’s announcement by the Board of Directors of the Edmonton Canadian Football League team to discontinue use of its outdated moniker and transition to a new, as yet undetermined name.
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Natan Obed
President | ITK
Canada’s National Inuit Leader
Monica Ell-Kanayuk
Vice-President | ITK
President and Vice-Chair | Inuit Circumpolar Council (Canada)
Duane Smith
Chair and CEO | Inuvialuit Regional Corporation
Aluki Kotierk
President | Nunavut Tunngavik Incorporated
Charlie Watt Sr.
President | Makivik Corporation
Johannes Lampe
President | Nunatsiavut Government
Rebecca Kudloo
President | Pauktuutit Inuit Women of Canada
Crystal Martin-Lapenskie
President | National Inuit Youth Council
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Natan Obed, the president of Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, told The Globe and Mail on Wednesday that the Edmonton CFL team’s name is a vestige of another time and the debate around it has been damaging to Inuit and damaging to reconciliation in the country.
Members of the Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami Board of Directors gathered by videoconference on June 26 for a regularly scheduled meeting. The board discussed progress on federal legislation to implement the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous and implementing the Calls to Justice of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Women and Girls.
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