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t. e. 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.
v. t. e. Inuit religion is the shared spiritual beliefs and practices of the Inuit, an indigenous people from Alaska, northern Canada, parts of Siberia, and Greenland. Their religion shares many similarities with some Alaska Native religions. Traditional Inuit religious practices include animism and shamanism, in which spiritual healers mediate ...
Eastern Canadian Inuit, among them the Netsilik, were the only Inuit to adopt a syllabic system of writing. The Netsilik's spoken language is Natsilingmiutut. It is a dialect of Inuvialuktun and the only one written in syllabics. [1] The Utkuhiksalingmiut, a Kivallirmiut (Caribou Inuit) group speak a variant of it, Utkuhiksalik. [2]
The Yupiit are the most numerous of the various Alaska Native groups and speak the Central Alaskan Yupʼik language, a member of the Eskimo–Aleut family of languages. As of the 2010 U.S. Census, the Yupiit population in the United States numbered over 34,000 people, of whom over 22,000 lived in Alaska.
Kivallirmiut are the descendants of Thule people who had migrated from Alaska. (Mathiassen, 1927) Kivallirmiut were the 17th century descendants of a migratory subgroup of Copper Inuit from the Arctic coast. (Taylor, 1972; Burch, 1978) While this is the most current hypothesis, it is still unproven.
The Beothuk culture formed around CE 1,500. This may have been the most recent cultural manifestation of peoples who first migrated from Labrador to present-day Newfoundland around CE 1. The ancestors of this group had three earlier cultural phases, each lasting approximately 500 years.
Thule people. The different cultures in Greenland, Labrador, Newfoundland and the Canadian arctic islands between 900AD and 1500AD. The Thule (/ ˈθjuːli / THEW-lee, US also / ˈtuːli / TOO-lee) [1][2] or proto-Inuit were the ancestors of all modern Inuit. They developed in coastal Alaska by the year 1000 and expanded eastward across ...
[212] As part of his religious revolution, Handsome Lake "sought to destroy the societies and orders that conserved the older religious rites." [ 212 ] A council of chiefs proclaimed, some time around 1800, that all animal and mystery societies should immediately dissolve, but through a defect in the form of the order the societies decided it ...