PHOTOS: Inuit Circumpolar Council holds its assembly in Utqiagvik, Alaska

The quadrennial assembly elected a new leader and adopted the Utqiagvik Declaration.

By Yereth Rosen July 23, 2018

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Whale bones form an arch on the beach at Utqiagvik, host to the quadrennial Inuit Circumpolar Council assembly this month. (Yereth Rosen)

Part of the U.S. delegation to the Inuit Circumpolar Council assembly in Utqiagvik listens to proceedings. (Yereth Rosen)

The King Island dancers from Nome (whose heritage is now-abandoned King Island) performed to open and close the ICC assembly. (Yereth Rosen)

Baleen sites outside the Inupiat Heritage Center, the site of arts workshops during the ICC assembly. (Yereth Rosen)

An ulu-making workshop is conducted at the Inupiat Heritage Center in Utqiagvik, during the ICC assembly there. (Yereth Rosen)

Dancers from Chukotka, Russia perform at the ICC assembly. (Yereth Rosen)

Bowhead whale tongue and bearded seal ribs were on offer at a potluck at the Inuit Circumpolar Assembly in Utqiagvik. (Yereth Rosen)

Miss Teen Top of the World, Lucy Gordon, poses during a culture celebration at the ICC assembly in Utqiagvik. (Yereth Rosen)

Tagiugmiut dancers perform at the ICC assembly in Utqiagvik. (Yereth Rosen)

Isaac Simmonds poses with some of his carvings at the ICC assembly in Utqiagvik. (Yereth Rosen)

Pituaq Maria Kleist of Greenland teaches some sewing techniques at a workshop held at the Inupiat Heritage Center. Her sealskin boots and other works are in the front. (Yereth Rosen)

Jimmy Stotts of ICC Alaska and Tatiania Achirginia of ICC Chukotka sign the Utqiagvik Declaration. (Yereth Rosen)

The Inuit Circumpolar Council, which represents Inuit in Alaska, Canada, Greenland and Russia met for its 2018 General Assembly in Utqiagvik (formerly Barrow) last week.

Delegates elected a new leader, Alaska’s Dalee Sambo Dorough, and issued the Utqiagvik Declaration, which calls for a greater Inuit role in the future of the Arctic.

The ICC is one of six indigenous permanent participants in the Arctic Council.

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