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This is a partial list of Canadian Inuit.The Arctic and subarctic dwelling Inuit (formerly referred to as Eskimo) are a group of culturally similar indigenous Canadians inhabiting the Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Nunavik and Nunatsiavut that are collectivity referred to as Inuit Nunangat.
The word "Eskimo" has been used to encompass the Inuit and Yupik, and other indigenous Alaskan and Siberian peoples, [2] [3] [4] but this usage is in decline. [5] [6] In Inuit communities, the women play a crucial role in the survival of the group. The responsibilities faced by Inuit women were considered equally as important as those faced by ...
Shanawdithit, born 1801, was the last recorded surviving member of the Beothuk people. [9] [10] After Shanawdithit's death in 1829, the Beothuk people became officially extinct as a separate ethnic group. [11] Aatsista-Mahkan (Running Rabbit), became chief of the Siksika First Nation following the death of his father in 1871. [12]
The Arctic and subarctic dwelling Inuit (formerly referred to as Eskimo) are a group of culturally similar indigenous peoples. Arnarsaq, translator, interpreter and missionary; Arnarulunnguaq (1896–1933), native Greenlandic woman who accompanied Knud Rasmussen on his Fifth Thule Expedition; Aron of Kangeq, hunter, painter, and oral historian
Project Surname was a project enacted by the Northwest Territories Council and Government of Canada to assign surnames to Inuit. [1] Project Surname was also known as Operation Surname . [ 2 ] These assigned surnames eventually replaced the disc number system, where numbers were assigned and kept on discs that people were obligated to wear from ...
While the group was in Buffalo in 1901, Eneutseak and the other performers became the subjects of the first motion pictures ever made of Inuit people. [5] Edison Studios produced three short films of the troupe performing at their faux-village at the exposition: "Esquimaux Village", "Esquimaux Game of Snap-the-Whip" and "Esquimaux Leap-Frog". [5]
They speak the Central Alaskan Yupʼik language, a member of the Eskaleut family of languages. As of the 2002 United States Census, the Yupik population in the United States numbered more than 24,000, [ 5 ] of whom more than 22,000 lived in Alaska, the vast majority in the seventy or so communities in the traditional Yupʼik territory of ...
Nadine Caron, first female First Nations Canadian general surgeon; Dawson Charlie, co-discoverer of gold in the Yukon; Jonathan Cheechoo, ice hockey player [1] Chief Lady Bird, (aka Nancy King), Chippewa and Potawatomi artist, illustrator, educator and community activist; Byron Chief-Moon, Kainai Nation American-born actor