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International Inuit Day (Inuktitut: ᐃᓄᐃᑦ ᐅᑉᓗᐊᓂ, romanized: Inuit Upluani), also known as International Circumpolar Inuit Day (Inuktitut: Tamaat Ukiuktaqtuniitunik Inuit Ubluangit), is a holiday that was created to celebrate Inuit and amplify their voices. It falls on 7 November.
The Inuit Circumpolar Council is a United Nations-recognized non-governmental organization (NGO), which defines its constituency as Canada's Inuit and Inuvialuit, Greenland's Kalaallit Inuit, Alaska's Inupiat and Yup'ik, and Russia's Siberian Yupik, [178] despite the last two neither speaking an Inuit dialect [69] or considering themselves "Inuit".
Quviasukvik (Inuktitut: ᖁᕕᐊᓲᑎᖃᕐᕕᒃ; "Christmas"), is the first day of the year according to Inuit. The festival of the New Year is celebrated by Inuit, Yupik, Aleuts, Chukchi, NunatuKavummiut and the Iñupiat. [3] The feast originally derives from traditional Inuit religion but in modern times, it has Christian influences. [4] [5]
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 eat only two main meals a day, but it is common to eat many snacks every hour. [34] Customs among Inuit when eating and preparing food are very strict and may seem odd for people of different cultures. [34]
About 90% of the 57,000 Greenlanders identify as Inuit and the vast majority of them belong to the Lutheran Church today, more than 300 years after a Danish missionary brought that branch of ...
They crossed the Bering Strait, a narrow passage between present day Russia and Alaska, into North America, ... Around 88% of Greenland’s population today are Inuit people, or indigenous ...
The ancestors of the present-day Inuit are culturally related to ... The responsibilities faced by Inuit women were considered equally as important as those faced by ...