By Sean Ridgeley, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, The Telegram Nunatukavut Community Council President Todd Russell was beaming after Nunatukavut artist Charlene Rumbolt’s piece was unveiled at Confederation Building on Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2025, where it will remain indefinitely. Russell said celebrating Indigenous art like this — many Indigenous artworks line the room — represents one more step in repairing a relationship that’s been fraught with conflict and strife in the past. “It completes the circle of the Indigenous peoples that occupied these lands and continue to, and so it’s a good day, a great day,” he said. “I’m smiling.” After pointing to the use of sealskin in the piece as particularly meaningful to his people and their families, he expressed it is about much more than a single piece of…
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