The Inuit Circumpolar Council, which represents Inuit in Alaska, Canada, Greenland and Russia met for its 2018 General Assembly in Utqiagvik (formerly Barrow) last week.
Delegates elected a new leader, Alaska’s Dalee Sambo Dorough, and issued the Utqiagvik Declaration, which calls for a greater Inuit role in the future of the Arctic.
The ICC is one of six indigenous permanent participants in the Arctic Council.
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