Paul Okalik for premiership of Nunavut, but was not elected by the Legislative Assembly. He later called for Okalik to resign as premier after Okalik made derogatory remarks about a senior municipal government official from Iqaluit to that city's mayor, Elisapee Sheutiapik. In 2008, he appeared in the documentary Passage, challenging 19th century claims by Lady Franklin, widely believed at the time, that the Inuit were responsible for signs of cannibalism among her husband's doomed expedition through the Northwest Passage. In 2015, Curley received the Order of Nunavut. Electoral record References External links . Biography at the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut Biography of Tagak Curley 1944 births Living people People from Rankin Inlet Members of the Order of Canada Members of the Order of Nunavut Members of the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut 21st-century Canadian politicians Members of the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories Candidates in the 1979 Canadian federal election Inuit politicians Inuit from the Northwest Territories Indspire Awards Liberal Party of Canada candidates for the Canadian House of Commons Inuit from Nunavut Nunavut candidates for Member of Parliament