Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Inuit (/ ˈ ɪ nj u ɪ t / IN-ew-it; [5] Inuktitut: ᐃᓄᐃᑦ 'the people', singular: Inuk, ᐃᓄᒃ, dual: Inuuk, ᐃᓅᒃ; Iñupiaq: Iñuit 'the people'; Greenlandic: Inuit) [6] [7] [8] are a group of culturally and historically similar Indigenous peoples traditionally inhabiting the Arctic and subarctic regions of North America, including Greenland, Labrador, Quebec, Nunavut, the ...
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.
The Greenlandic Inuit ( Greenlandic: kalaallit, Danish: Grønlandsk Inuit) are the indigenous and most populous ethnic group in Greenland. [ 12] Most speak Greenlandic (Western Greenlandic, Kalaallisut) and consider themselves ethnically Greenlandic. People of Greenland are both citizens of Denmark and citizens of the European Union .
The Inuit Circumpolar Council, a group representing indigenous peoples of the Arctic, has made the case that climate change represents a threat to their human rights. [37] As of the 2000 U.S. Census, the Inupiat population in the United States numbered more than 19,000. [citation needed] Most of them live in Alaska.
Eskimo ( / ˈɛskɪmoʊ /) is an exonym that refers to two closely related Indigenous peoples: Inuit (including the Alaska Native Iñupiat, the Canadian Inuit, and the Greenlandic Inuit) and the Yupik (or Yuit) of eastern Siberia and Alaska. A related third group, the Aleut, who inhabit the Aleutian Islands, are generally excluded from the ...
Copper Inuit, like all Inuit, are descendants of the Thule people. Changes in the environment may have resulted in the transition from prehistoric Thule culture to Copper Inuit culture. [4] For about 3,000 years [8] the Copper Inuit were hunter-gatherer nomads. Their settlement and acculturation to some European-Canadian ways has occurred only ...
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 ...
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.