Jobie Nutarak
{{Short description|Canadian politician}}
{{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}}
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| name = Jobie Nutarak
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| birth_date = May 10, 1947
| birth_place = Pond Inlet, Northwest Territories
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2006|4|22|1947|5|10}}
| death_place=Pond Inlet, Nunavut
| term_start = 1999
| term_end = 2006
| predecessor = first member
| successor = James Arvaluk
| party = Non-partisan
consensus government
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Jobie Nutarak (May 10, 1947 – April 22, 2006) was a politician from Nunavut in northern Canada.
Biography
Nutarak was born in Pond Inlet on Baffin Island. He was elected to the district of Tunnuniq in 1999 and was re-elected in 2004. In 2004 he was elected to the position of Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut, being the first unilingual Inuktitut speaking person to hold the position. Prior to territorial politics, Nutarak was involved in local and regional education and active with Inuit land claims organizations.
Nutarak died while on a snowmobile hunting trip, leaving behind a wife, Joanna Nutarak, and five children, Dennis, Harvey, Marc, Angela, and Melanie,{{Cite web | title=Nutarak, Hon. Jobie (Tunnuniq) Speaker of the Legislative Assembly {{!}} Encyclopedia.com | url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/international/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/nutarak-hon-jobie-tunnuniq-speaker-legislative-assembly | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210121222148/https://www.encyclopedia.com/international/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/nutarak-hon-jobie-tunnuniq-speaker-legislative-assembly | access-date=2025-05-30 | archive-date=2021-01-21}} along with five grandchildren.{{cite news |title=Nunavut Speaker dies on snowmobile hunting trip |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nunavut-speaker-dies-on-snowmobile-hunting-trip-1.627017 |date=April 24, 2006 |publisher=CBC News |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061017084111/http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2006/04/23/nunavut-speaker060423.html |archive-date=October 17, 2006}}
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20060211065946/http://www.assembly.nu.ca/english/members/bios/nutarak.html Jobie Nutarak at the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut]
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before=Kevin O'Brien|
title=Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut|
years=2004-2006|
after=Peter Kilabuk}}
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Category:20th-century Inuit people
Category:21st-century Inuit people
Category:Inuit from the Northwest Territories
Category:People from Pond Inlet
Category:Accidental deaths in Nunavut
Category:Speakers of the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut
Category:20th-century members of the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut
Category:21st-century members of the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut
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