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The use of an apostrophe in the name "Yupʼik", compared to Siberian "Yupik", exemplifies the Central Alaskan Yupʼik's orthography, where "the apostrophe represents gemination [or lengthening] of the ‘pʼ sound". [12] The "person/people" (human being) in the Yupik and Inuit languages:
The Inuit Circumpolar Council is a United Nations-recognized non-governmental organization (NGO), which defines its constituency as Canada's Inuit and Inuvialuit, Greenland's Kalaallit Inuit, Alaska's Inupiat and Yup'ik, and Russia's Siberian Yupik, [179] despite the last two neither speaking an Inuit dialect [70] or considering themselves "Inuit".
The term Eskimo is still used by people to encompass Inuit and Yupik, as well as other Indigenous or Alaska Native and Siberian peoples. [27] [43] [46] In the 21st century, usage in North America has declined. [28] [44] Linguistic, ethnic, and cultural differences exist between Yupik and Inuit.
These people were unrelated to the Inuit. [15] Save for a Late Dorset recolonisation of northeast Greenland c. 700 CE, the island was then uninhabited until the Norse arrived in the 980s. Between 1000 and 1400, the Thule , ancestors of the Inuit, [ 16 ] [ 17 ] replaced the Dorset in Arctic Canada, and then moved into Greenland from the north ...
Over time, the Inuit, and other related peoples, have migrated throughout the Arctic and subarctic regions of Canada (Inuit Nunangat), Greenland, Russia , and the United States . [7] Other Indigenous peoples of the circumpolar north include the Chukchi, Evenks, Iñupiat, Khanty, Koryaks, Nenets, Sámi, Yukaghir, and Yupik.
Evidence for copper smelting in North America is disputed. Andean civilizations had bronze smelting, discovered by the Moche culture and used by the Calchaquí and Inca; Metallurgy in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica appeared after 600 CE, including alloys of copper; later, bronze techniques were probably imported from South America
The Inuit are an indigenous people of the Arctic and subarctic regions of North America (parts of Alaska, Canada, and Greenland).The ancestors of the present-day Inuit are culturally related to Iñupiat (northern Alaska), and Yupik (Siberia and western Alaska), [1] and the Aleut who live in the Aleutian Islands of Siberia and Alaska.
The Circum-Caribbean cultural region was characterized by anthropologist Julian Steward, who edited the Handbook of South American Indians. [1] It spans indigenous peoples in the Caribbean, Central American, and northern South America, the latter of which is listed here.