Facts on Indigenous Peoples

Click for a fact box on the Arctic Indigenous Peoples. Indigenous peoples’ organizations have been granted Permanent Participants status in the Arctic Council. The Permanent Participants have full consultation rights in connection with the Council’s negotiations and decisions.

  • Arctic Indigenous Organizations with permanent participation in the work of the Arctic Council
  • Map: Arto Vitikka, Arctic Centre
  • Sources of the data: www.arctic-council.org and Wikipedia.org, and Arctic Indigenous languages and revitalization: an online educational resource. (2023). Language speaker areas map and dataset.
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Last updated: 4.2.2026