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Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami was founded in 1971

Natan Obed, president of Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, in 2016.
Natan Obed, president of Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, in 2016. Natan Obed - 2016 (26090289393) (cropped) · U.S. Department of the Interior · Photo source · Photo licence: CC BY-SA 2.0. Resized for display; item previews may be cropped. The image remains under the licence shown.
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Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, the national Inuit organization formerly called the Inuit Tapirisat of Canada, was founded in February 1971 by seven Inuit community leaders. It grew out of shared concern about land and resource ownership in Inuit Nunangat.

Scope & context

The organization’s founding, not its current programs or the regional Inuit organizations. ITK’s site gives both Toronto and Ottawa as the founding location; this claim states neither.

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