sentences:  He was also the first Inuk to sit on what is now the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories and worked with Thomas Berger.Okpik, an Inuvialuit, was born January 12, 1928 in the Mackenzie Delta area of the Northwest Territories, near Aklavik at a summer fishing camp.Prior to selecting the name Abraham Okpik he was known as Auktalik, meaning man with a mole.