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Inuit (/ ˈ ɪ nj u ɪ t / IN-ew-it; [5] Inuktitut: ᐃᓄᐃᑦ 'the people', singular: Inuk, ᐃᓄᒃ, dual: Inuuk, ᐃᓅᒃ; Iñupiaq: Iñuit 'the people'; Greenlandic: Inuit) [6] [7] [8] are a group of culturally and historically similar Indigenous peoples traditionally inhabiting the Arctic and subarctic regions of North America, including Greenland, Labrador, Quebec, Nunavut, the ...
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 Greenlandic Inuit ( Greenlandic: kalaallit, Danish: Grønlandsk Inuit) are the indigenous and most populous ethnic group in Greenland. [ 12] Most speak Greenlandic (Western Greenlandic, Kalaallisut) and consider themselves ethnically Greenlandic. People of Greenland are both citizens of Denmark and citizens of the European Union .
Eskimo ( / ˈɛskɪmoʊ /) 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. A related third group, the Aleut, who inhabit the Aleutian Islands, are generally excluded from the ...
Ellesmere Island ( Inuktitut: ᐅᒥᖕᒪᒃ ᓄᓇ, romanized : Umingmak Nuna, lit. 'land of muskoxen '; French: île d'Ellesmere) [ 2] is Canada's northernmost and third largest island, and the tenth largest in the world. It comprises an area of 196,236 km 2 (75,767 sq mi), [ 3] slightly smaller than Great Britain, and the total length of ...
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.
Copper Inuit, like all Inuit, are descendants of the Thule people. Changes in the environment may have resulted in the transition from prehistoric Thule culture to Copper Inuit culture. [4] For about 3,000 years [8] the Copper Inuit were hunter-gatherer nomads. Their settlement and acculturation to some European-Canadian ways has occurred only ...
Demographics. As of the 2021 Canadian census the population of Inuit Nunangat was 58,220 an increase of 2.9 per cent over the 2016 census population of 56,585. The Indigenous population is 50,500 or 89.24 per cent of the total population, of which 48,695 (83.63 per cent) are Inuit. [ 1][ 21]