Nunavik

Nunavik is the northern part of both the Labrador Peninsula and the Canadian province of Quebec. Located across the 55th parallel about 510,000 square kilometers of land area is enclosed by the province of Newfoundland and Labrador in the east, the Hudson Strait and the Ungavabai in the Northeast and the Hudson Bay to the west. Due to the Hudson Strait Nunavik is separated from the opposite Inuit territory of Nunavut. Also Nunavik was equipped with special rights for the Inuit living there.

Population and infrastructure

Nunavik has around 11,000 inhabitants, about 90% are ethnically Inuit live in 14 coastal settlements. Is also located directly at Kuujjuarapik the Cree settlement Whapmagoostui. The name " Nunavik " is Inuktitut and means " country where you can live "; the Inuit living here consider themselves accordingly as " Nunavimmiut ". The largest settlements of Nunavik are Kuujjuaq, which is also the administrative center, and Inukjuaq, Puvirnituq, Salluit and Kangiqsujuaq.

A street linking of Nunavik on the southern part of Québec does not exist. However, the whole year round, there is air link with all settlements ( Air Inuit, First Air ); in summer and autumn supply takes place by transport ships.

Management

Politically, Nunavik to 1912 to the Northwest Territories ( Ungava region ), since the province of Quebec. An agreement between the Government of Canada, the Province of Québec and representatives of the Inuit ( the agreement of the James Bay and Quebec North ) introduced with the establishment of a " Kativik Regional Government " ( Administration régionale Kativik ) of the Nunavik region in 1978 an enhanced political autonomy. All residents of the 14 northern settlements, both Inuit as non- Inuit, for example, select in regional elections their own deputies. The expenditure by the Kativik Regional Government will account for about 50 % of the province of Quebec and 25% each from the Canadian government and local revenues.

The Makivik Corporation, also based in Kuujjuaq, represents the Inuit of northern Quebec to the Government of Quebec and the Canadian federal government. For the region of Nunavik an expansion of political autonomy is sought. The last negotiations led for example to the traditional rights agreement regulating the use of resources on the lying off the coast of Nunavik islands, all part of the territory of Nunavut.

The settlement Whapmagoostui, a Cree enclave on the Hudson Bay, the Cree Regional Authority is ( Administration régional cri ), which in turn in the "Grand Council of the Cree " is involved ( in the Cree language Eeyou Istchee ).

The also living on the Côte -Nord Naskapi Indians heard a designated hunting area; they are subject to the Kativik Regional Government.

Communities

  • Akulivik
  • Aupaluk
  • Inukjuak
  • Ivujivik ( northernmost settlement )
  • Kangiqsualujjuaq
  • Kangiqsujuaq
  • Kangirsuk
  • Kuujjuaq ( administrative center )
  • Kuujjuarapik
  • Puvirnituq
  • Quaqtaq
  • Salluit
  • Tasiujaq
  • Umiujaq
  • Whapmagoostui (The sole Cree community of Nunavik )
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