a body responsible for the government of the Northwest Territories (def. 2b), now consisting of twelve members, of whom seven are elected and five appointed.
1962  To eight of the elders of the Eskimo Community of Rankin Inlet, it seemed the Northwest Territories Council was making a big fuss about nothing.
1965  Granting residents of the eastern Arctic the right to vote for their own members of the Northwest Territories Council could mean the start of a language problem for the Parliament of the North.