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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 ...
The largest population of Inuit in Canada as of 2016 live in Nunavut with 30,140 [169] Inuit out of a total population of 35,580 residents. [ 11 ] [ 170 ] Between 2006 and 2016, Inuit population of Nunavut grew by 22.5 per cent. [ 169 ]
The ISR is one of the four Inuit regions of Canada, collectively known as Inuit Nunangat, [6] represented by the Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami (ITK). The other regions include Nunatsiavut in Labrador, Nunavik in northern Quebec, and the territory of Nunavut. [7] The ISR is the homeland of the Inuvialuit.
The Inuit are descended from the Thule people, who settled Greenland in between AD 1200 and 1400. As 84 percent of Greenland's land mass is covered by the Greenland ice sheet, Inuit people live in three regions: Polar, Eastern, and Western. In the 1850s, additional Canadian Inuit joined the Polar Inuit communities. [14]
They, like all other Inuit, are descendants of the Thule who migrated eastward from Alaska. [2] Their homeland – the Inuvialuit Settlement Region – covers the Arctic Ocean coastline area from the Alaskan border, east through the Beaufort Sea and beyond the Amundsen Gulf which includes some of the western Canadian Arctic Islands , as well as ...
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.
The Indigenous peoples in Northern Canada consist of the First Nations, Métis, and Inuit located in Canada's three territories: Northwest Territories, Nunavut, and Yukon. Inuit communities [ edit ]
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]