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Today, Inuit Nunangat is overseen by the Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami (ᐃᓄᐃᑦ ᑕᐱᕇᑦ ᑲᓇᑕᒥ, meaning either "Inuit are united with Canada" [18] or "Inuit are united in Canada" [19]) which acts as a cultural centre piece and quasi-central government for Inuit affairs within Canada.
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.
Outside of Inuit Nunangat, Inuit population was 17,695 as of 2016. [10] This was a growth of 61.9 per cent between the 2006 and 2016 censuses. [168] The highest populations of Inuit outside of Inuit Nunangat lived in the Atlantic provinces (30.6 per cent) with 23.5 per cent lived in Newfoundland and Labrador.
Beginning in the late 1970s and 1980s, women in Nunavut and the other areas of Nunangat began a push to end the practice of being flown to the south of Canada (Douglas- Rankin Inlet). This was based on a widely held belief in the region that birth of Inuit children within the Inuit homeland would strengthen the family unit and increase social ...
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]
Eskimo (/ ˈ ɛ s k ɪ m oʊ /) 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.
Nunavut [a] is the largest and northernmost territory of Canada.It was separated officially from the Northwest Territories on April 1, 1999, via the Nunavut Act [12] and the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement Act, [13] which provided this territory to the Inuit for self-government.
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 ...