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The Inuit (sometimes referred to as Eskimo) are a group of culturally similar indigenous peoples inhabiting the Arctic regions of Alaska (United States), Greenland (Kingdom of Denmark), the Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Nunavik and Nunatsiavut , Canada. The list has been broken down by country: List of American Inuit
Willie Adams [4] 22 June 1934: Fort Chimo: QC: politician who was a member of the Senate of Canada: Johnny Ned Adams [5] [6] 1960: Fort Chimo: QC: pilot, a businessman and a former mayor of the village of Kuujjuaq: Susan Aglukark [7] [8] 27 January 1967: Churchill: MB: musician Leona Aglukkaq [9] 28 June 1967: Inuvik: NT: politician, Minister ...
The Sadlermiut are most often cited for having maintained a unique culture and dialect apart from other Inuit, similar to the Unangam (Aleut), which is principally the result of an adaptation to environmental and historical constraints, [14] whereas they show a closer genetic profile to paleo-Eskimo groups than neo-Eskimo groups. [15]
[16] [17] During the Canadian Arctic Expedition, 1913–1916, Canadian ethnographer Diamond Jenness spent two years living with and documenting the lives of Copper Inuit. He sent thousands of artifacts of their material culture to the Geological Survey of Canada. [18] Along with trade, European contact brought influenza and typhoid. These newly ...
A Kwis Ki Mahka Indian Reserve — Fox Lake Cree Nation; Amik Wachink Sakahikan — Garden Hill First Nation; Anderson — Norway House Cree Nation; Andrew Bay — God's Lake First Nation
The governments in Canada [4] [5] [6] and the United States [7] [8] have made moves to cease using the term Eskimo in official documents, but it has not been eliminated, as the word is in some places written into tribal, and therefore national, legal terminology. [9]
Explorer Joseph Tyrrell estimated the "Caribou Eskimo" numbered nearly 2,000 when he led the Geological Survey of Canada's Barren Lands expeditions of 1893 and 1894. Eugene Arima classifies the Hauniqtuurmiut, Ha'vaqtuurmiut, Paallirmiut, and Qairnirmiut as Kivallirmiut "southern, latter" bands: through the end of the 19th century, they were ...
They comprise the First Nations, [3] Inuit, [4] and Métis, [5] representing roughly 5.0% of the total Canadian population. There are over 600 recognized First Nations governments or bands with distinctive cultures, languages, art, and music. [6] [7] Old Crow Flats and Bluefish Caves are some of the earliest known sites of human habitation in ...