The category of Permanent Participant provides for the active participation and full consultation with the arctic indigenous representatives within the Arctic Council. Two new organizations were approved as Permanent Participants at the October 2000 Barrow Ministerial, bringing the total to six.
The Arctic Council is equally open to other arctic organizations of indigenous peoples with a majority of arctic indigenous constituency representing: - a single indigenous people resident in more than one Arctic State or - more than one arctic indigenous people resident in a single Arctic State.
