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Revisiting Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit: Inuit knowledge, culture, language, and values in Nunavut institutions since 1999.

Francis Lévesque

Lévesque, F. (2014). Revisiting Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit: Inuit knowledge, culture, language, and values in Nunavut institutions since 1999. Études/Inuit/Studies, 38(1-2), 115-136. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.7202/1028856ar

The Government of Nunavut and the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement organizations have been making a lot of effort to integrate Inuit qaujimajatuqangit (IQ) into their operations, institutional structures, and policies since the creation of the territory in 1999. This paper describes some of the ways in which IQ has been integrated into the operations, structures, and policies of Nunavut since 1999. It also proposes a broader discussion about the impacts of Western bureaucratic institutions on IQ, and highlights that IQ also impacts Nunavut operations and institutions. In this paper, I argue that IQ is not so much a practice of resistance to the colonial order, as some have suggested, but rather a way for Inuit to assume control of these structures to adapt them to their own use. Although IQ has still relatively limited influence, it has the potential, in the long run, to reshape Nunavut institutions and make them more representative of Inuit culture. Cet article décrit comment le gouvernement du Nunavut et les organisations nées de l’Accord sur les revendications territoriales du Nunavut tentent d’intégrer l’ Inuit qaujimajatuqangit (IQ) dans leurs opérations, leurs structures et leurs politiques depuis la création du territoire en 1999. Il propose aussi une discussion plus large sur les impacts des institutions bureaucratiques occidentales sur l’IQ et souligne le fait que l’IQ influence également les opérations et les institutions du Nunavut. Dans cet article, je propose de repenser l’IQ non pas comme une résistance aux institutions coloniales, comme il a été suggéré, mais plutôt comme un moyen pour les Inuit de s’approprier ces structures en les adapter à leurs usages. Même si l’IQ joue encore un rôle relativement limité, il a le potentiel, à long terme, de transformer les institutions du Nunavut pour qu’elles soient plus représentatives de la culture des Inuit. View document
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