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- The Inupiat[ 2 ] (singular: Iñupiaq [ 3 ]) are a group of Alaska Natives whose traditional territory roughly spans northeast from Norton Sound on the Bering Sea to the northernmost part of the Canada–United States border. [ 4 ][ 5 ][ 6 ][ 7 ] Their current communities include 34 villages across Iñupiat Nunaat (Iñupiaq lands), including seven Alaskan villages in the North Slope Borough, affiliated with the Arctic Slope Regional Corporation; eleven villages in Northwest Arctic Borough; and sixteen...
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Sep 16, 2024 · Inuit, group of culturally and linguistically unique Indigenous peoples of the Arctic and subarctic regions whose homelands encompass Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland, a self-governing overseas administrative division of Denmark), Arctic Canada, northern and southwestern Alaska in the United States, and part of Chukotka in the Far East region of Russia.
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Inuit are the descendants of what anthropologists call the Thule people, [27] who emerged from the Bering Strait and western Alaska around 1000 CE. They had split from the related Aleut group about 4000 years ago and from northeastern Siberian migrants. They spread eastward across the Arctic. [28] .
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The Inuit people live in Alaska, Canada, Siberia, and Greenland, with most of them inhabiting northern Canada. There are approximately 150,000 Inuit globally, with approximately 65,000 in Canada, 35,000 in Alaska, 50,000 Greenland, and smaller populations in Siberia. Much of the Inuit population of the world lives in remote areas. In Canada, most o...
Many Inuit traditions and customs have developed over thousands of years and include extensive oral history and storytelling traditions. The Inuit pass stories from one generation to another as a way to preserve their culture. Many Inuit ceremonies consisted of singing and dancing. Some dances were religious, and others were celebratory. Inuit spir...
The Inuit in Canada speak the Inuktitut language. It has five main dialects: Inuvialuktun in the Inuvialuit regions of the Northwest Territories, Inuinnaqtun in western Nunavut, Nunatsiavumiuttut in Nunatsiavut, Inuktitut in eastern Nunavut, and Inuktitut in Nunavik. In 2016, over 41,000 Inuit had a conversational knowledge of an Inuit language or ...
Experts have found that the Inuit diet has not undergone drastic changes over the centuries. Inuit people were hunters that adapted to their environment, available resources, and climate. They hunted based on the seasonal availability of various plants and animals. The Inuit diet mainly consists of “country food,” including game meats, birds, fish,...
The Inuit in Canada have lacked adequate housing and access to healthcare since they were moved into permanent settlements in the 1950s and '60s. A study in 2018 found that the Inuit who lived in and around Ottawa have much higher cancer and hypertension cases compared to the general population. In 2016, over half of those residing in Inuit Nunanga...
The Inuit are an indigenous people of the Arctic and subarctic regions of North America (parts of Alaska, Canada, and Greenland). The ancestors of the present-day Inuit are culturally related to Iñupiat (northern Alaska), and Yupik (Siberia and western Alaska), [1] and the Aleut who live in the Aleutian Islands of Siberia and Alaska.
Inuit, the language and the people, extend borders and dialects across the Circumpolar North. Inuit are the Native inhabitants of Northern Alaska, Canada, and Greenland. Inuit languages have differing names depending on the region it is spoken in. In Northern Alaskan, the Inuit language is called Iñupiatun. [17]
The Iñupiat and St. Lawrence Island Yup’ik people are from Arctic Alaska. Learn about their art, culture, history, and the Iñupiat Heritage Center in Utqiagvik.
May 14, 2018 · In 1741, the Russian explorer, Vitus Bering, met the Inuit of Alaska. It is estimated that there were about 40,000 Inuit living in Alaska at the time, with half of them living in the north, both in the interior and in the far northwest.
