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Sheila Watt-Cloutier is a Canadian Inuit activist. She believes and strives to better Human and Aboriginal Rights. Her mother was a healer for their community and she has a white father who works far away  She was from a small Inuit community, Nunavik (Northern Québec)

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In 1993, Sheila Watt attempted to run for an elected office position and work alongside with Makivik Corporation. They would administered funds from the James Bay and Northern Québec Agreement. She lost the election but this experience made her work harder for the position and when she ran in 1995, she got the position as the secretary for Makivik Corporation. Also in 1995, she was elected to be the Canadian president of the Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC). She held this position for 7 years(2002). Later on that year, she ran for the International Chair of the ICC

This way, she represented Canada, Greenland, Alaska and Russia until 2006

She got the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007, for her environmental and political activism, her significant impacts of climate change on the Inuit people

Sheila and her community  had to deal with permafrost and ice caps, warmer temperatures, and unpredictable weather patterns

This affected their health and source to food

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Climate Change Speaker: Sheila Watt-Cloutier

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The arctic is melting and it’s affecting the Inuit and their culture. Beneath the melting ice holds oil and mineral wealth. The northern traditional life and home were at stake due to their melting inhabitant/community. During her time as she held one of the main positions at the ICC she lead the Northern indigenous people from four different countries into a campaign against the persistent organic pollutants (POPs). The organic pollutants have greatly poisoned the Arctic food chain and did a significant impact on the Inuit and their rights as individuals . The NGO’s and other supporters came to her aid and they were able to negotiate a treaty to ban the toxins. She fights for public opinions to be turned into public policies because she believes in equality and balance for us

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Sheila Watt-Cloutier is an activist for Human Rights and Indigenous Rights. She is a Inuit leader and is greatly respected for her achievements to support them. Watt-Cloutier gets recognition for her rights of  activism, environmental and climate change awareness, and social justice.

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Rachel Carson Prize

International environmental award

Right Livelihood Award

International award to "honour and support those offering practical and exemplary answers to the most urgent challenges facing us today."

Sophie Prize

International environment and development prize awarded annually from 1998 to 2013

Laureate, Champions of the Earth Award (2005)

Laureate, Aboriginal Achievement Award (now Indspire) (2004)

Officer, Order of Canada (2006)

Honorary Doctor of Laws, University of Winnipeg (2006)

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She has made a book named “The Right to Be Cold”

this book talks about the arctic and how impactful it is towards everyone and how climate change is becoming a everyday problem now that people must acknowledge

Her 5 family members death has brought her to pursue her career for human rights and balance. In 2004, she put in a lot of work and effort for the global scene, instrumental in the signing, ratification, and enforcement of the Stockholm Convention. This was a global commitment to help protect the human health and the environment from persistent organic pollutants