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Inuit Nunangat currently functions through a variety of legal systems. As a Canadian jurisdiction, all of Inuit Nunangat falls under the federally overseen Criminal Code for criminal law. Inuvialuit Nunangat in the Northwest Territories and Yukon, Nunavut, and Nunatsiavut in Labrador are all subject to the English common law tradition.
Inuit Nunangat ᐃᓄᐃᑦ ᓄᓇᖓᑦ The Inuvialuit Settlement Region , abbreviated as ISR ( Inuinnaqtun : Inuvialuit Nunangit Sannaiqtuaq – INS ; French : Région désignée des Inuvialuit – RDI ), located in Canada's western Arctic , was designated in 1984 in the Inuvialuit Final Agreement by the Government of Canada for the ...
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.
Outside of Inuit Nunangat, Inuit population was 17,695 as of 2016. [10] This was a growth of 61.9 per cent between the 2006 and 2016 censuses. [168] The highest populations of Inuit outside of Inuit Nunangat lived in the Atlantic provinces (30.6 per cent) with 23.5 per cent lived in Newfoundland and Labrador.
Covering a land area of 443,684.71 km 2 (171,307.62 sq mi) north of the 55th parallel, it is the homeland of the Inuit of Quebec and part of the wider Inuit Nunangat. Almost all of the 14,045 inhabitants ( 2021 census ) of the region, of whom 90% are Inuit, [ 1 ] live in fourteen northern villages on the coast of Nunavik and in the Cree ...
Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami (Inuktitut syllabics: ᐃᓄᐃᑦ ᑕᐱᕇᑦ ᑲᓇᑕᒥ, meaning "Inuit are united in Canada"), [2] previously known as the Inuit Tapirisat of Canada (Eskimo Brotherhood of Canada), [3] [4] [5] is a nonprofit organization in Canada that represents over 65,000 Inuit across Inuit Nunangat and the rest of Canada. [6]
Beginning in the late 1970s and 1980s, women in Nunavut and the other areas of Nunangat began a push to end the practice of being flown to the south of Canada (Douglas- Rankin Inlet). This was based on a widely held belief in the region that birth of Inuit children within the Inuit homeland would strengthen the family unit and increase social ...
Arctic Bay (Ikpiarjuk ᐃᒃᐱᐊᕐᔪᒃ); Arviat (ᐊᕐᕕᐊᑦ); Baker Lake (Qamanittuaq, ᖃᒪᓂᑦᑐᐊᖅ); Bathurst Inlet (Kingoak); Cambridge Bay ...