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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 Inuvialuit people. It spans 90,650 km 2 (35,000 sq mi) of ...
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English: Locator map showing current (c. 2019) Indigenous settlement regions in Northwest Territories, Canada. Boundaries derived from written descriptions where possible. Physical geography derived from NaturalEarth dataset.
The area of the land covered by the Inuvialuit Settlement Region is 521,707.68 km 2 (201,432.46 sq mi). Aklavik (Aklavik Indian Band, Ehdiitat Gwich’in Council) and Inuvik (Nihtat Gwich’in Council) are shared with the Gwich’in people, who are represented by the Gwich’in Tribal Council. [14]
In 2021 of those Inuit living in Inuit Nunangat 6.46 per cent live in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region, 63.38 per cent in Nunavut, 25.87 per cent in Nunavik and 4.29 per cent in Nunatsiavut. [ 1 ] In total there are 70,545 Inuit in Canada with 48,695 (69.02 per cent) living in Inuit Nunangat and 21,850 (30.98 per cent) living in other parts of ...
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Qikiqtaruk Territorial Park ("our island" [2]), is the first territorial park in the territory of Yukon, Canada. The park makes up the entire 116 km 2 (45 sq mi) of Herschel Island . The island is located 5 km (3.1 mi) north of the Yukon coast in the Beaufort Sea ( Inuvialuktun : Tariuq ).
Today, many Kangiryurmiut still live on Victoria Island, in the hamlet of Uluhaktok, now within the Inuvialuit Settlement Region. The Kangiryuarmiut speak the Kangiryuarmiutun, often considered a subdialect of Inuvialuktun, although it is more closely related to Inuinnaqtun. Inuvialuktun names for groups often refer to geographic features ...