Ludy Pudluk (January 31, 1943 – July 1, 2019) was a Canadian territorial level politician and cabinet minister. A

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, he resided in

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Life

Pudluk was born on January 31, 1943, Qaumarjuiton in Navy Board Inlet, near

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. In 1958, the family moved to Resolute, Nunavut, at the time part of the

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, where he remained. In 2008, he appeared before the Qikiqtani Truth Commission to give testimony about the sled dog killing by the

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. Pudluk was made a member of the

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in 2017. He died July 1, 2019, in

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Political career

Pudluk was first elected to the

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in the

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winning the High Arctic electoral district. He was re-elected to his second term in the

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. He ran for a third term and was re-elected in the 1983 Northwest Territories general election. Pudluk was re-elected to a fourth term and his last as High Arctic MLA in the

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. Pudluk's district changed to the

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electoral district with redistribution and renaming in the

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. He was re-elected to his final term and retired from the legislature in 1995 after having served 20 consecutive years in office. After retiring from territorial politics, he served as mayor of Resolute.

References

External links

Ludy Pudluk at the Qikiqtani Truth Commission
1943 births 2019 deaths 20th-century Inuit people 21st-century Inuit people Inuit from the Northwest Territories Inuit from Nunavut Inuit politicians 20th-century members of the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories Members of the Order of Nunavut People from Resolute {{NorthwestTerritories-politician-stub