Ûssarĸak K'ujaukitsoĸ (; 10 February 1948 – 2 August 2018) was a
Greenlandic politician for
Siumut party.
Ûssarĸak K'ujaukitsoĸ was the son of K'ujaukitsoĸ K'ujaukitsoĸ and his wife Eĸilana. His grandfather was Inukitsupaluk K'ujaukitsoĸ (1890-1967), who participated in expeditions by
Robert Edwin Peary,
Knud Rasmussen and
Lauge Koch and was the son of K'ujaukitsoĸ and his wife Aimainalik. On 15 February 1970, he married the economist Inger Kristiansen and the couple had one son
Vittus Qujaukitsoq, who had been Greenland Minister of Finance (2013–2014) and of Business, Labor, Trade and Foreign Affairs (2014–2017).
Ûssarĸak K'ujaukitsoĸ went to school in
Qaanaaq and was trained as a salesman in
Aasiaat in 1964. In 1966 he left Greenland to visit the commercial school in
Ikast, Denmark. After a year he returned to Aasiaat, then to Qaanaaq, where he finally worked as a warehouse manager. He witnessed the
crash of a B-52 near Thule Air Base in 1968 at a close range, which became his life-defining political issue along with the 1953 American expulsion from his birthplace for the construction of
Thule Air Base. In 1971 he was first elected to the council of the community
Qaanaaq, where he sat for many years, partly as vice mayor. From 1984 to 1995 he sat in
Inatsisartut.
Ûssarĸak K'ujaukitsoĸ was the chairman of the interest group "Hingitaq 53 for the rights of
Inughuit", expelled in 1953. He filmed the 2003 film ''Aulahuliat'', which reproduces images of the dispute between Inughuit and Americans and was shown in 2012 in Berlin at the premiere of the film festival Greenland Eyes. For his decades of service, he received the
Nersornaat in silver on 9 August 2016.
Se billeder: Nersornaat i sølv til Uusarqak Qujaukitsoq
References
1948 births
2018 deaths
Members of the Parliament of Greenland
Human rights activists
Danish documentary film directors
20th-century politicians
Greenlandic Inuit people
Inuit politicians
Recipients of Nersornaat
Siumut politicians
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