Aqqaluk Lynge‎

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Aqqaluk Lynge (born in 1947 in Aasiaat, Greenland) was the president of the Inuit Circumpolar Council (formerly the Inuit Circumpolar Conference) from 1995 to 2002.{{cite web|url=https://www.un.org/esa/socdev/unpfii/documents/members/member-lynge.pdf|title=Mr. Aqqaluk Lynge|website=UN|access-date=22 August 2023}} He is a former member of the Inatsisartut and one of the founders of the Greenlandic political party Inuit Ataqatigiit. An indigenous Kalaaleq, in 2004 Lynge became a member of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues,{{Cite web|url=http://www.nunatsiaqonline.ca/stories/article/aqqaluk_lynge_appointed_to_uns_indigenous_forum/|title = Aqqaluk Lynge appointed to UN's indigenous forum|date = 7 May 2004}} which is an advisory body to the U.N.'s Economic and Social Council. He was a visiting fellow at the Dartmouth College Institute of Arctic Studies in 2008 and received an Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters from the college in 2012.[http://www.economistinsights.com/speaker/2666 Speaker] economistinsights.com {{dead link|date=October 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} Lynge has also become known as an author of poetry and essays,{{Cite web |url=http://now.dartmouth.edu/2012/06/dartmouth-commencement-2012-biography-aqqaluk-lynge |title=Dartmouth Commencement 2012: Biography of Aqqaluk Lynge | Dartmouth Now |access-date=2015-06-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150910054401/https://now.dartmouth.edu/2012/06/dartmouth-commencement-2012-biography-aqqaluk-lynge |archive-date=2015-09-10 |url-status=dead }}{{Cite web|title=Lynge, Aqqaluk {{!}} Inuit Literatures ᐃᓄᐃᑦ ᐊᓪᓚᒍᓯᖏᑦ Littératures inuites|url=https://inuit.uqam.ca/en/person/lynge-aqqaluk|access-date=2021-06-03|website=inuit.uqam.ca}} published in Greenlandic, Danish, English and French.{{Cite web|title=Des veines du coeur au sommet de la pensée {{!}} Inuit Literatures ᐃᓄᐃᑦ ᐊᓪᓚᒍᓯᖏᑦ Littératures inuites|url=https://inuit.uqam.ca/en/documents/des-veines-du-coeur-au-sommet-de-la-pensee|access-date=2021-06-03|website=inuit.uqam.ca}}