NunatuKavut
Nunatuĸavut | |
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Proposed autonomous area | |
The village of Mary's Harbour, in Southern Labrador | |
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| Country | Canada |
| Province | Newfoundland and Labrador |
| Capital | Vâli, Labrador |
| Government | |
| • Type | Proposed parliamentary democracy within the parliamentary system of Canada |
| • President | Todd Russell (since 2012) |
| Population (2007) | |
• Total | 2,345 |
| Demonym | NunatuKavummiut |
| Time zone | UTC−04:00 (AST) |
| Postal code prefix | |
| ISO 3166 code | NL |
| Federal riding | Labrador |
| Provincial riding | Cartwright-L'Anse au Clair and Lake Melville |
| Website | NunatuKavut.ca |
| People | NunatuKavummiut |
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| Language | Inuttitut; Inuit Sign Language (Uukturausingit) |
NunatuKavut (Inuktitut: ᓄᓇᑐᑲᕗᑦ, "Our Ancient Land") is a proposed NunatuKavummiut territory in central and southern Labrador. Previous submissions by the Nunatuĸavummiut (as the Labrador Métis Nation) included a secondary claim as far north as Nain, the northernmost community in Nunatsiavut.
According to the NunatuKavut Community Council (NCC), the NunatuKavut claim correspond to the historic land-use of the Southern Inuit. The NCC is considered an Indigenous collective which represents the descendants of mixed Inuit-European people from central and southern Labrador. While both the Supreme Court of Newfoundland and Labrador and the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples have concluded that the NCC represents a people with a credible but unproven claim to Indigenous rights, at least three land claim submissions have been unsuccessful since it first applied in 1991.
The NunatuKavut Community Council's claims have been opposed by other Indigenous groups in the region. The Innu Nation also includes portions of the proposed NunatuKavut territory in its own land claim. The NCC signed a memorandum of understanding in 2019 with the Canadian government, but this in itself does not confer any Indigenous rights.