Memorial University won’t recognize NunatuKavut in new Indigenous verification policy – CBC

Apr 22, 2025

NunatuKavut President Todd Russell says it’s an attack on the community

The NunatuKavut Community Council says it’s willing to fight against Memorial University for leaving the group out of its new Indigenous verification policy.

NunatuKavut president Todd Russell says the draft policy was written “so that NunatuKavut Inuit would be basically erased as an Indigenous people.”

NunatuKavut represents 6,000 self-identifying Inuit in south and central Labrador. The group, which identified itself as the Labrador Métis Nation until 2010, is not recognized by Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, the national representative organization for the Inuit in Canada.

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