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Inuit used stars to navigate at sea and landmarks to navigate on land; they possessed a comprehensive native system of toponymy. Where natural landmarks were insufficient, Inuit would erect an inukshuk. Also, Greenland Inuit created Ammassalik wooden maps, which are tactile devices that represent the coastline.
The source maps from which information was culled are published on the Pan Inuit Trails Atlas website. [1] The maps also provide an additional point of argument for the Government of Canada to claim that the Northwest Passage through the Canadian Arctic Archipelago is part of the Canadian Internal Waters and thus under Canadian sovereignty. [5]
Nain (Inuit language: Nunainguk) is the northernmost permanent settlement in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador, within the Nunatsiavut region, located about 370 km (230 mi) by air from Happy Valley-Goose Bay.
Eventually, the Inuit learned the local beluga whale migration routes and were able to survive in the area, hunting over a range of 18,000 km 2 (6,900 sq mi) each year. [ 20 ] In 1993, the Canadian government held hearings to investigate the relocation program, and the following year the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples issued a report ...
Inuit navigators understood the concept of maps and could construct a relief map from sand, sticks, and pebbles to give directions to others. [6] Maps were also drawn on skins using plant dyes. [6] For example, the bark of the alder tree provided a red-brown shade, and spruce produced red, [11] and berries, lichen, moss and algae also provided ...
Nunavik is a vast territory located in the northernmost part of Quebec. It lies in both the Arctic and subarctic climate zones.Altogether, about 12,000 people live in Nunavik's communities, and this number has been growing in line with the tendency for high population growth in indigenous communities.
They are named after the northern indigenous people, the Inuit. [1] In some locations the Innuitian Mountains measure over 2,500 m (8,202 ft) in height, and 1,290 km (802 mi) in length. [ 2 ] The highest point is Barbeau Peak on Ellesmere Island at 2,616 m (8,583 ft). [ 3 ]
Map of the Canadian Arctic Lands showing the Innuitian Region. The Innuitian Region is a physiographic division of Canada's far north. [1] It is one of three physiographic divisions of the Arctic Lands physiographic region, along with the Arctic Coastal Plain, and the Arctic Lowlands. [1]