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- ↑ "Nunavut MLAs put Arreak in cabinet, Okalik in speaker’s chair." Nunatsiaq News. November 4, 2010
- ↑ "James Arreak as mayor in 1982". Archived from the original on 4 September 2006. Retrieved 28 March 2006.
