Johannes Lampe is a Canadian politician who is the current President of

Nunatsiavut Nunatsiavut (; ) is an autonomous area claimed by the Inuit in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. The settlement area includes territory in Labrador extending to the Quebec border. In 2002, the Labrador Inuit Association submitted a proposal for ...

, an autonomous

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region of the

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Newfoundland and Labrador Newfoundland and Labrador is the easternmost province of Canada, in the country's Atlantic region. The province comprises the island of Newfoundland and the continental region of Labrador, having a total size of . As of 2025 the populatio ...

Career

Lampe was sworn in as president in May 2016 after being the only candidate for the role. He hopes to preserve the Inuit culture, identity and language. Before becoming president, he served as a member of the Nunatsiavut Assembly for Nain and he served as Minister of Culture, Recreation and Tourism. Lampe was re-elected in 2020. In 2024, being the only candidate to come forward for the Nunatsiavut President seat, Lampe was acclaimed for a third term on April 3, 2024.

Repatriation of Labrador Inuit Human Remains

On May 23, 2011, as Nunatsiavut's Minister of Culture, Recreation and Tourism, Lampe participated in the repatriation of the remains of 22 individuals held at the Chicago

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. These remains had been removed from marked graves in Zoar during the Rawson-MacMillan sub-Arctic expedition of 1927-28. In 2017, Nunatsiavut Government and The Field Museum received the first Inuit Cultural Repatriation Award from

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's President Natan Obed for the work they did leading to the successful return of the human remains. In 2014, Lampe was selected by the Nunatsiavut Government and Nain's Inuit Elders Committee to accompany the film crew of the documentary ''Trapped in a Human Zoo'' to retrace the steps of

Abraham Ulrikab Abraham Ulrikab (January 29, 1845 – January 13, 1881) was an Inuk from Hebron, Labrador, in the present-day province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, who – along with his family and four other Inuit – agreed to become the latest attract ...

in Europe and to see his remains at the

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in Paris. This was to be the first step in Nunatsiavut's eventual request to have the remains repatriated to Labrador.

Lower Churchill Project

In June 2016, he led a protest at the office of MHA

Perry Trimper Perry Trimper is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly in the 2015 provincial election, 2019 and 2021 provincial elections. He represents the electoral district of Lake Melville as a Liberal. ...

Electoral record

2020 presidential election

2016 presidential election

2014 general election

2012 presidential election

Round 1

Round 2

2008 presidential election

References

Living people 21st-century Inuit people Inuit from Newfoundland and Labrador Inuit politicians People from Nain, Newfoundland and Labrador Year of birth missing (living people) Indigenous leaders in Atlantic Canada {{Newfoundland-politician-stub