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Eskimo (/ ˈɛskɪmoʊ /) is an exonym that refers to three closely related Indigenous peoples: Inuit (including the Alaskan Iñupiat, the Canadian Inuit, and the Greenlandic Inuit), the Yupik (or Yuit) of eastern Siberia and Alaska and the Aleut, who inhabit the Aleutian Islands. The three groups share a relatively recent common ancestor, and ...
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 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.
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 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.
The ancestors of the Greenlandic Inuit who live there today appear to have migrated there later, around the year 1200, from northwestern Greenland. While the Inuit survived in the icy world of the Little Ice Age , the early Norse settlements along the southwestern coast disappeared, leaving the Inuit as the only inhabitants of the island for ...
The Early Paleo-Eskimo is the first of three distinct periods of human occupation recognized by archaeologists in the eastern North American Arctic, the others being the Late Paleo-Eskimo and the Thule. Dates for these occupations vary according to specific geographic region and cultural historical perspective, but it is generally agreed that ...