Nunavik community joins James Bay treaty, 40 years later – Nunatsiaq News
July 21, 2015
July 20 ceremony marks category 1 land transfer to the village of Ivujivik
Forty years after the original signing of the James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement, the Inuit of Nunavik’s northernmost community are the official owners of 525 square kilometres of surrounding land.
Quebec government ministers and Nunavik leadership visited Ivujivik July 20 to mark the transfer of Category 1 lands to the community, lands that will now fall under the management of the new Nuvummi Landholding Corp.
“It’s a new era and circumstances changed and evolved and so has the community and my people as we take this new day with a lot of hope,” said landholding president Adamie Kalingo in a July 20 release.
