Johannes Lampe

Johannes Lampe
3rd President of Nunatsiavut
Incumbent
Assumed office May 6, 2016
Prime Minister	Justin Trudeau
Premier	Dwight Ball Andrew Furey
Preceded by	Sarah Leo
Personal details
Born	Nutak, Newfoundland and Labrador[1]
Residence	Nain, Newfoundland and Labrador

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.[2][3]

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.[4] 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[5]. 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.[6]

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. [7] [8]. 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.[9]

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.[10][11] [12]

Lower Churchill Project

In June 2016, he led a protest at the office of MHA Perry Trimper.[13]

Electoral record

2020 presidential election

2020 Nunatsiavut presidential election
	Name	Vote	%
	Johannes Lampe	1,015	65.57%
	Andrea Webb	533	34.43%

2016 presidential election

2016 Nunatsiavut presidential election
	Name	Vote	%
	Johannes Lampe	acclaimed

2014 general election

Nunatsiavut general election, 2014: Nain (2 members)
[14]	Name	Vote
	Sean Lyall	367
	Richard Pamak	243
	Joe Dicker	181
	Jim Lyall	150
	Johannes Lampe	134
	William Barbour	101

2012 presidential election

Round 1

Nunatsiavut presidential election, 2012 (1st round)
[15]	Name	Vote	%
	Johannes Lampe	821	38.51%
	Sarah Leo	742	34.80%
	Susan Nochasak	569	26.69%
Total Valid Ballots		2,132	100%

Round 2

Nunatsiavut presidential election, 2012 (2nd round)
[16]	Name	Vote	%
	Sarah Leo	1,107	50.83%
	Johannes Lampe	1,071	49.17%
Total Valid Ballots		2,178	100%

2008 presidential election

Nunatsiavut presidential election, 2008
[17]	Name	Vote	%
	Jim Lyall
	Natan Obed
	Johannes Lampe
	Zippie Nochasak

See also

• List of people of Newfoundland and Labrador

References

1. Return to Nutak
2. "Our President's Message - Government - Nunatsiavut Government". Nunatsiavut Government. Archived from the original on 2016-04-16.
3. "'A great honour': Johannes Lampe sworn in as Nunatsiavut president | CBC News".
4. "President lays out priorities in first address to the Nunatsiavut Assembly". 7 June 2016.
5. "Unofficial Presidential Election Results". 7 October 2020.
6. "Nunatsiavut President Acclaimed for Another Term". 3 April 2024.
7. "Bringing Them Home: Remains returned to Labrador from Chicago Museum; had been taken as artifacts". June 11, 2011.
8. "Inuit bones from ancestral site to be repatriated". July 21, 2010.
9. "National Inuit org honours return of stolen Nunatsiavut remains". September 26, 2017.
10. "Trapped in a Human Zoo: Nain man retraces steps of Labrador Inuit in documentary | CBC News".
11. "Bringing the Inuit Home - Canada's History".
12. "Shocking history of Inuit trapped in human zoos revealed in documentary. Interview with Maria Tremonte, CBC, The Current".
13. "'Yeah, you can boo': Perry Trimper addresses protesters in Happy Valley-Goose Bay | CBC News".
14. "Unofficial results of the Nunatsiavut General Election. | Nunatsiavut Government". Archived from the original on 2016-08-10. Retrieved 2016-06-10.
15. "No clear winner yet in Nunatsiavut election".
16. "Nunatsiavut elects new president".
17. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-04-22. Retrieved 2020-08-14.