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A long-simmering dispute about Indigenous identity boiled over into sustained attacks Tuesday, Oct. 10, as Innu Nation leaders told a news conference in Ottawa the Nunatukavut Community Council has no historical claim to native status and is fraudulently attempting to steal land and benefits from Labrador’s Innu and Inuit communities.
“Stop using your white privilege to take from the Innu,” he said. “Stop pretending to be something that you are not.”Central to the controversy is whether the NCC should get Section 35 Indigenous status under the Canadian Constitution. While the Innu Nation launched the challenge, the Nunatsiavut government — representing Labrador’s Inuit people along the northeast coast — has been most vocal over the past four years, challenging almost every word and action of the NCC.In November 2022, Nunatsiavut described the NCC’s plan to offer lessons in the Inuit language of Inuktitut as “cultural appropriation.
“We are the descendants from generations of Inuit who have lived on our lands, ice and waters for hundreds of years.”The war of words between Nunatsiavut and Nunatukavut has taken on academic dimensions, as the two entities have exchanged a rebuttal and “The Innu Nation continues to intentionally spew misinformation and rhetoric about NCC and the rights of NunatuKavut Inuit. These baseless allegations are an obvious attempt to politicize the process and to negatively influence the federal government and our relationship with them.”
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