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Luke Anowtalik
Luke Anowtalik (1932 - 2006) was an Inuit, Inuk artist based in Arviat, Nunavut. His work is included in the collections of the Winnipeg Art Gallery, and National Gallery of Canada. Biography Anowtalik was born near Ennadai Lake, Nunavut in 1932. After he and his younger sister Kunee (Rita) lost their parents to starvation, they were relocated to Churchill, Manitoba by Trapping, trapper Charlie Schweder. Luke and Rita's story is shared in the book ''No Man's River'' by Farley Mowat. Two years after the relocation, Anowtalik trekked by dogsled by himself back to Ennadai Lake where he was rescued by the family of Andy Aulatjut. Anowtalik married Aulajut's daughter Mary Ayaq Anowtalik and the two were featured on the cover of Life (magazine), Life Magazine's February 27th, 1956 issue with one of their children. Anowtalik and his family were Forced displacement, forcibly displaced by the Government of Canada, Canadian government to Nueltin Lake in May of 1950, to Henik Lake, Hen ...
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Inuit (singular: Inuk) are a group of culturally and historically similar Indigenous peoples traditionally inhabiting the Arctic and Subarctic regions of North America and Russia, including Greenland, Labrador, Quebec, Nunavut, the Northwest Territories, Yukon (traditionally), Alaska, and the Chukotsky District of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug. The Inuit languages are part of the Eskaleut languages, also known as Inuit-Yupik-Unangan, and also as Eskimo–Aleut. Canadian Inuit live throughout most of Northern Canada in the territory of Nunavut, Nunavik in the northern third of Quebec, the Nunatsiavut in Labrador, and in various parts of the Northwest Territories and Yukon (traditionally), particularly around the Arctic Ocean, in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region. These areas are known, by Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami and the Government of Canada, as Inuit Nunangat. In Canada, sections 25 and 35 of the Constitution Act of 1982 classify Inuit as a distinctive group of Abo ...
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