Editing Inuksuk (section)

==Modern usage==
{{See also|Inukshuk (Kanak)}}
[[File:Flag of Nunavut.svg|thumb|right|An inuksuk on the [[flag of Nunavut]]]]
Inuksuit continue to serve as an Inuit cultural symbol. An inuksuk is the centrepiece of the [[Flag of Nunavut|flag]] and [[Coat of arms of Nunavut|coat of arms]] of the [[Provinces and territories of Canada|Canadian territory]] of Nunavut, and the [[flag of Nunatsiavut]]. The [[Inuksuk High School]] in [[Iqaluit]] is named after the landmark.

Inuksuit{{emdash}}particularly, but not exclusively, of the {{lang|iu|inunnguaq}} variety{{emdash}}are also increasingly serving as a mainstream Canadian [[national symbol]]. In 1999, Inukshuk was the name for the International Arctic Art & Music Project of [[Arbos – Company for Music and Theatre|ARBOS]] in the Canadian provinces of Quebec, Ontario, Nunavik,{{Clarify|reason=Nunavik is in Quebec and is not a province of its own.|date=February 2024}} and Nunavut; and in Greenland, Austria, Denmark and Norway.<ref>''Inukshuk – The Arctic Art & Music Project of ARBOS'', Edition Selene, Vienna, 1999. {{ISBN|3-85266-126-9}}</ref>

On July 13, 2005, Canadian military personnel erected an inuksuk on [[Hans Island]], along with a plaque and a [[Flag of Canada|Canadian flag]], as part of Canada's longstanding dispute with Denmark over the small Arctic island.<ref>Press release from the Government of Canada, Foreign Affairs and International Trade. [http://www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca/canadaeuropa/Hans%2520Island%2520-%2520website.doc Google cache copy]{{dead link|date=November 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}.</ref>  The markers have been erected throughout the country, often as generic gateways into tourist regions, including a {{convert|9|m|abbr=on}} inuksuk that stands in [[Toronto]] on the shores of [[Lake Ontario]].  Located in Battery Park, it commemorates the [[World Youth Day 2002]] festival that was held in the city in July 2002.

An {{lang|iu|inunnguaq}} is the basis of the logo of the [[2010 Winter Olympics]] designed by [[Vancouver]] artist Elena Rivera MacGregor. Its use in this context has been controversial among the Inuit, and the [[First Nations in Canada|First Nations]] within [[British Columbia]]. Although the design has been questioned, people believe it pays tribute to Alvin Kanak's [[Inukshuk (Kanak)|1986 inuksuk]] at [[English Bay (Vancouver)|English Bay]]. Friendship and the welcoming of the world are the meanings of both the English Bay structure and the 2010 Winter Olympics emblem.<ref>{{cite news |date=27 April 2005 |title=Vancouver Olympic emblem comes under fire |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/vancouver-olympic-emblem-comes-under-fire-1.557252 |work=[[CBC News]] }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=18 February 2010|title=Vancouver Olympic Logo: A Smiling Marker Of Death? |url=https://www.npr.org/2010/02/18/123851564/vancouver-olympic-logo-a-smiling-marker-of-death |work=[[NPR News]] }}</ref>

[[File:All Your Base Are Belong to Ilanaaq (10615471).jpg|thumb|left|Unveiling ceremony of the 2010 Olympic Winter Games emblem, "Ilanaaq the inukshuk", April 24, 2005]]
The Vancouver 2010 logo and the construction of inuksuit around the world have led to increasing recognition of them.{{Citation needed|date=November 2007}} There are five authentic inuksuit which were donated to other jurisdictions {{emdash}}wholly or in part{{emdash}}by the government of Canada: they are located in [[Brisbane]], Australia;<ref>{{Cite web|title=Australian Bicentenary {{!}} Monument Australia|url=https://monumentaustralia.org.au/themes/landscape/settlement/display/102651-australian-bicentenary|access-date=2021-06-19|website=monumentaustralia.org.au}}</ref> [[Monterrey]], Mexico; [[Oslo]], Norway; [[Washington, D.C.]], United States; and [[Guatemala City]], Guatemala.<ref>Green, Sarah. [https://web.archive.org/web/20071105041036/http://www.torontosun.com/News/Canada/2007/11/02/4624880-sun.html "Inuit art finds home in Mexico"], ''Toronto Sun'', 2 Nov 2007, Retrieved 2007-11-08.</ref>

[[File:Inukshuk Monterrey 3.JPG|thumb|The Monterrey Inuksuk is unveiled by Canada's ambassador to Mexico and the governor of [[Nuevo León]]]]
A Canadian-donated inuksuk was built in [[Monterrey]], Mexico, in October 2007 by the [[Inuvialuit|Inuvialuk]] artist [[Bill Nasogaluak]]. The sculpture was presented to the people of the northern state of [[Nuevo León]] as a gift from the Monterrey chapter of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce in Mexico and the Government of Canada, to mark the chamber's 10th anniversary in the city. The sculpture stands over the [[Santa Lucía Riverwalk]]. Nasogaluak, of [[Tuktoyaktuk]], personally chose the rocks for the structure from a local quarry near Monterrey. The inuksuk contains two rocks which the artist took to Mexico from Canada, one from the high Arctic and another from his home town of Toronto. Together they form the inuksuk's heart.

The inuksuk was also used as the symbol of the [[Summit of the Americas]], because of its connotations of "guidance and unity&nbsp;... towards common goals."<ref>[http://summit-americas.org/SIRG/XLVI%20SIRG/Acta_ENG%2010-16-06.DOC Proceedings of the XLVI Meeting of the Summit Implementation Review Group (SIRG)]</ref>

Officials in various wilderness parks throughout Canada routinely dismantle inuksuit constructed by hikers and campers, for fear that they could misdirect park visitors from the cairns and other markers that indicate hiking trails. The practice of erecting inuksuit in parks has become so widespread that [[Killarney Provincial Park]], on the north shore of Ontario's [[Georgian Bay]], issued a notice in 2007 urging visitors to "stop the invasion" of inuksuit.<ref>{{cite news |last=Dubé |first=Rebecca |date=August 15, 2007 |title=Enough with the inukshuks already |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/enough-with-the-inukshuks-already/article1080258/ |newspaper=[[The Globe and Mail]] |location=Toronto }}</ref>

A large number of inuksuit have been built in some areas along the [[Trans-Canada Highway]], including [[Northern Ontario]]. In 2010, a journalist from [[Greater Sudbury|Sudbury]]'s ''[[Northern Life (newspaper)|Northern Life]]'' counted 93 inuksuit along [[Ontario Highway 69|Highway 69]] between Sudbury and [[Parry Sound, Ontario|Parry Sound]]. The journalist successfully tracked down a person who had built two inuksuit along the route; he attributed his action to having had a "fill the dreams moment where I needed to stop and do it" while driving home from a family funeral.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Inukshukification of Highway 69 |url=http://www.northernlife.ca/news/lifestyle/2010/09/inukshuk230910.aspx |publisher=[[Northern Life (newspaper)#Northern Life|Northern Life]] |date=September 22, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151030143846/http://www.northernlife.ca/news/lifestyle/2010/09/inukshuk230910.aspx |archive-date=October 30, 2015 |url-status=live}}</ref>

In 2015, a small group of women near [[Hamilton, Ontario]], constructed 1,181 inuksuit on the Chedoke Rail Trail to memorialize the issue of [[Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women]], while seeking government action. It was one of many types of activism across the county, and the newly elected government committed to conducting a national inquiry that year.<ref name="inuksuit">[http://www.rememberoursisterseverywhere.com/photo/missing-married-women Adam Carter, "Aboriginal women remembered with 1,181 inukshuks" (sic- inuksuit)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222092358/http://www.rememberoursisterseverywhere.com/photo/missing-married-women |date=2015-12-22 }}, CBC News, 5 Nov 2015, posted at Remember Our Sisters website</ref>

According to ''[[Guinness World Records]]'', the tallest inuksuk is in [[Schomberg, Ontario]], Canada. Built in 2007, it is {{convert|11.377|m}} tall.<ref name=guinness>{{cite web |title=Tallest Inukshuk |url=http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/5000/tallest-inukshuk |publisher=Guinness World Records |access-date=1 January 2013 }}</ref>

On the occasion of the 20th Anniversary of the [[Rome Statute]], to mark Canada's support for the [[International Criminal Court]] (ICC)<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.international.gc.ca/court-cour/index.aspx?lang=eng |title=''Canada and the International Criminal Court'' |access-date=2018-03-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180330212704/http://www.international.gc.ca/court-cour/index.aspx?lang=eng |archive-date=2018-03-30 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and as a symbol for its commitment to reconciliation with Canada's [[First Nations in Canada|First Nations]]{{citation needed|date=November 2018}}, Canadian Minister of Justice and Attorney General [[Jody Wilson-Raybould|Wilson-Raybould]] on 7 March 2018 donated an inuksuk as a gift to the ICC. It was unveiled by her and ICC President Judge [[Silvia Fernández de Gurmendi]] at the ICC premises in [[The Hague]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.diplomatmagazine.nl/2018/03/08/canada-justice-minister-icc-president-unveil-artwork-donation/ |title=''Canada Justice Minister and ICC President unveil artwork donation'' |access-date=2018-03-30 |archive-date=2020-11-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201116021858/http://www.diplomatmagazine.nl/2018/03/08/canada-justice-minister-icc-president-unveil-artwork-donation/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>