page_title: Inuit Circumpolar Council
hierarchical_section_title: Inuit Circumpolar Council
caption_attribution_description: Map showing the members of the Inuit Circumpolar Conference.
context_page_description: The Inuit Circumpolar Council, formerly Inuit Circumpolar Conference, is a multinational non-governmental organization and Indigenous Peoples' Organization representing the 180,000 Inuit, Yupik, and Chukchi peoples living in Alaska, Canada, Greenland, and Chukotka. ICC was ECOSOC-accredited and was granted special consultative status at the UN in 1983.
  The Conference, which first met in June 1977 in Barrow, Alaska, initially represented Native Peoples from Canada, Alaska and Greenland. In 1980 the charter and by-laws of ICC were adopted. The Conference agreed to replace the term Eskimo with the term Inuit. This has not however met with widespread acceptance by some groups, most pre-eminently the Yupik.
context_section_description: The Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC) (Greenlandic: Inuit Issittormiut Siunnersuisooqatigiiffiat), formerly Inuit Circumpolar Conference, is a multinational non-governmental organization (NGO) and Indigenous Peoples' Organization (IPO) representing the 180,000 Inuit, Yupik, and Chukchi peoples (often referred to as Eskimo) living in Alaska (United States), Canada, Greenland (Kingdom of Denmark), and Chukotka (Russia). ICC was ECOSOC-accredited and was granted special consultative status (category II) at the UN in 1983.
  The Conference, which first met in June 1977 in Barrow, Alaska, initially represented Native Peoples from Canada, Alaska and Greenland. In 1980 the charter and by-laws of ICC were adopted. The Conference agreed to replace the term Eskimo with the term Inuit. This has not however met with widespread acceptance by some groups, most pre-eminently the Yupik (see Background section below). The principal goals of the ICC are to strengthen unity among Inuit of the circumpolar region; to promote Inuit rights and interests on an international level; to develop and encourage long-term policies that safeguard the Arctic environment; and to seek full and active partnership in the political, economic, and social development of circumpolar regions., or in short: to strengthen ties between Arctic peoples and to promote human, cultural, political and environmental rights and polities at the international level.
  ICC holds a General Assembly every four years. ICC is one of the six Arctic indigenous peoples to have the status of Permanent Participant on the Arctic Council.
caption: Member states and regions of the Inuit Circumpolar Council.
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