The Avataq Cultural Institute is Nunavik's official organization for the preservation and promotion of the Inuktitut language and Inuit culture.
[1][2] Avataq has departments that deal with ethnography and art, as well as a library, archive and language programs.
[2] Avataq receives its mandate from the biennial Inuit Elders Conference.
[7] In 1984 Avataq supported a place-name survey of elders in 12 Inuit communities in the Quebec Arctic.
[8][9] In 2018 Avataq worked with Dartmouth College to return bones that had been excavated from Inuit gravesites in 1967 by one of the college's anthropologists.