The Inuit are an indigenous people of the circumpolar Arctic, spanning Arctic Canada, Greenland and northern Alaska, closely related to but ethnolinguistically distinct from the Yupik peoples of Siberia and southwestern Alaska. Inuit society developed a well-documented set of technologies and social practices specifically adapted to Arctic subsistence hunting, including sea-mammal hunting, seasonal camp mobility and extended kin-based sharing networks for distributing food in a resource-scarce environment. In 1999 Canada established the territory of Nunavut, with an Inuit-majority population and significant Inuit self-government, following a documented land-claims process, and Greenland's Inuit-majority Self-Government arrangement with Denmark, expanded in 2009, is a further documented case of contemporary Inuit political self-determination. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Group TypeSourced to the subject's own accountIndigenous ethnic group (circumpolar) 1 Typical RegionSourced to the subject's own accountArctic North America and Greenland (Canada, Greenland/Denmark, Alaska/United States, with related Yupik peoples in Russia) 1 Primary LanguageSourced to the subject's own accountInuit languages (Inuktitut, Inuinnaqtun, Greenlandic and related varieties) 1 Subsistence ModeSourced to the subject's own accountHistorically hunting and fishing adapted to Arctic and subarctic environments (seal, whale, caribou and fish), with distinctive technology including the kayak, umiak and dog sled. 1 Disputed
Population EstimateSourced to the subject's own accountInuit populations are counted separately across Canadian, Greenlandic/Danish and Alaskan U.S. census systems using differing ethnic categories, so aggregate totals are approximate. Group Type
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Associated With
Eskimo kinship terminology is named for and documented among the Inuit, who along with most Western societies use this bilateral system distinguishing lineal from collateral kin.
Source Wikipedia: Inuit Kinship
In the Other Atlases
- Also in Language Atlas: Greenlandic, used in there.
- Also in Language Atlas: Inuktitut, used in there.
Sources
1. Wikipedia: Inuit (people)
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Inuit are a group of culturally and historically similar Indigenous peoples traditionally inhabiting the Arctic and Subarctic regions of North America and Russia, including Greenland, Labrador, Quebec, Nunavut, the Northwest Territories, Yukon (traditionally), and Alaska.
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