Johannes Lampe is a Canadian politician who is the current President of Nunatsiavut, an autonomous Inuit region of the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador.
Career Lampe was sworn in as president in May 2016 after being the only candidate for the role. He hopes to preserve the Inuit culture, identity and language. Before becoming president, he served as a member of the Nunatsiavut Assembly for Nain and he served as Minister of Culture, Recreation and Tourism.
Lampe was re-elected in 2020. In 2024, being the only candidate to come forward for the Nunatsiavut President seat, Lampe was acclaimed for a third term on April 3, 2024.
Repatriation of Labrador Inuit Human Remains
On May 23, 2011, as Nunatsiavut's Minister of Culture, Recreation and Tourism, Lampe participated in the repatriation of the remains of 22 individuals held at the Chicago Field Museum. These remains had been removed from marked graves in Zoar during the Rawson-MacMillan sub-Arctic expedition of 1927-28. In 2017, Nunatsiavut Government and The Field Museum received the first Inuit Cultural Repatriation Award from Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami's President Natan Obed for the work they did leading to the successful return of the human remains.
In 2014, Lampe was selected by the Nunatsiavut Government and Nain's Inuit Elders Committee to accompany the film crew of the documentary Trapped in a Human Zoo to retrace the steps of Abraham Ulrikab in Europe and to see his remains at the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris. This was to be the first step in Nunatsiavut's eventual request to have the remains repatriated to Labrador.
Lower Churchill Project In June 2016, he led a protest at the office of MHA Perry Trimper.
Electoral record
2020 presidential election 2020 Nunatsiavut presidential electionName Vote%Johannes Lampe1,01565.57%Andrea Webb53334.43%
2016 presidential election 2016 Nunatsiavut presidential electionName Vote%Johannes Lampeacclaimed
2014 general election Nunatsiavut general election, 2014: Nain (2 members)Name VoteSean Lyall367Richard Pamak243Joe Dicker181Jim Lyall150Johannes Lampe134William Barbour101
2012 presidential election
Round 1 Nunatsiavut presidential election, 2012 (1st round)Name Vote%Johannes Lampe82138.51%Sarah Leo74234.80%Susan Nochasak56926.69%Total Valid Ballots2,132100%
Round 2 Nunatsiavut presidential election, 2012 (2nd round)Name Vote%Sarah Leo1,10750.83%Johannes Lampe1,07149.17%Total Valid Ballots2,178100%
2008 presidential election Nunatsiavut presidential election, 2008Name Vote%Jim LyallNatan ObedJohannes LampeZippie Nochasak
See also
List of people of Newfoundland and Labrador
References