Nunatsiaq News – Last summer the Ahiarmiut won a settlement from the federal government worth about $5M as a result of protracted negotiations that followed a lawsuit they had filed in 2008. The upcoming apology on January 22, 2021 is part of that settlement. In their lawsuit, the Ahiarmiut said the Canadian government, with the RCMP and “various commercial operations,” forcibly relocated the Ahiarmiut multiple times among various places in the southern Kivalliq region.

“The relocations resulted in malnutrition, starvation and many deaths,” the release said.