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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.
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.
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 ...
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]
As Inuktitut was the language of the Eastern Canadian Inuit [79] and Kalaallisut is the language of the Western Greenlandic Inuit, [80] they are related more closely than most other dialects. [88] Inuit in Alaska and Northern Canada also typically speak English. [89] In Greenland, Inuit also speak Danish and learn English in school. Inuit in ...
Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami (ITK) says "Inuktut is the language of Inuit, spoken across Inuit Nunaat, which includes Greenland, Alaska and Inuit Nunangat in Northern Canada". [1] In Canada, according to ITK, it encompasses Inuvialuktun , Inuinnaqtun , Inuktitut , and Inuttut .
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