Abe Okpik

For other uses, see Okpik (disambiguation).

Abe Okpik
CM
Auktalik
Okpik in April 1964
Born12 January 1928
Mackenzie Delta area, Northwest Territories
Died10 July 1997(1997-07-10) (aged 69)
Iqaluit, Northwest Territories (now Nunavut)
OccupationInuit community leader

Abraham "Abe" Okpik,[pronunciation?][1] CM[2] (12 January 1928 – 10 July 1997[3]) was an Inuit community leader in Canada. He was instrumental in helping Inuit obtain surnames rather than disc numbers as a form of government identification. He was also the first Inuk to sit on what is now the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories[1] and worked with Thomas Berger.

  1. ^ a b "Arctic residents say farewell to the humble name-giver". Archived from the original on 2014-04-15. Retrieved 2012-06-22.
  2. ^ Order of Canada citation
  3. ^ Abe Okpik on Tamapta, an InuvialuitTelevision program on YouTube interview starts at 20:48