Inuit
Sign in to saveInuit (singular: Inuk) 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), Alaska, and the Chukotsky District of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug. The Inuit languages are part of the Eskaleut languages, also known as Inuit-Yupik-Unangan, and also as Eskimo–Aleut.
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The Inuit are Indigenous peoples with shared culture and history who have traditionally lived across the Arctic and Subarctic regions of North America and Russia, including areas like Greenland, Alaska, and northern Canada. They matter as distinct peoples with their own languages (part of the Eskaleut language family) and ancestral territories that have shaped their identities and ways of life across these vast northern regions.
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Key facts
- Ethnic group.group
- Inuit
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- Distribution_of_Inuit_in_Canada_(2021).svg
- Ethnic group.caption
- Percentage of population identifying as Inuit by Canadian census division, 2021 census
- Ethnic group.population
- 155,066
- Ethnic group.region1
- Canada
- Ethnic group.pop1
- 70,540 (2021)
- Ethnic group.region2
- Greenland
- Ethnic group.pop2
- 50,878 (2024 estimate)
- Ethnic group.region3
- Denmark
- Ethnic group.pop3
- 17,067 (2023)
- Ethnic group.region4
- United States
- Ethnic group.pop4
- 16,581 (2010)
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38 sectionsContents
- History
- Pre-contact history
- Post-contact history
- Early contact with Europeans
- Early 20th century
- The Second World War to the 1960s
- Cultural renewal
- Inuit cabinet members at the federal level
- Nomenclature
- Cultural history
- Languages
- Diet
- Tattoos
- Transport, navigation, and dogs
- Industry, art, and clothing
- Gender roles, marriage, birth, and community
- Raiding
- Suicide, murder, and death
- Health
- Traditional law
- Traditional beliefs
- Demographics
- Canada
- Greenland
- Denmark
- United States
- Governance
- Canada
- Greenland
- Alaska
- Genetics
- Modern culture
- Notes
- References
- Citations
- General and cited references
- Further reading
- External links
Inuit (singular: Inuk) 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), Alaska, and the Chukotsky District of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug. The Inuit languages are part of the Eskaleut languages, also known as Inuit-Yupik-Unangan, and also as Eskimo–Aleut.
Canadian Inuit live throughout most of Northern Canada in the territory of Nunavut, Nunavik in the northern third of Quebec, the Nunatsiavut in Labrador, and in various parts of the Northwest Territories and Yukon (traditionally), particularly around the Arctic Ocean, in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region. These areas are known, by Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami and the Government of Canada, as Inuit Nunangat. In Canada, sections 25 and 35 of the Constitution Act of 1982 classify Inuit as a distinctive group of Aboriginal Canadians who are not included under either the First Nations or the Métis.
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Commons link from WikidataHunter-gatherers of CanadaHunter-gatherers of the ArcticHunter-gatherers of the United StatesIndigenous peoples in Atlantic CanadaIndigenous peoples in Northern CanadaIndigenous peoples in the United StatesIndigenous peoples of SiberiaInuitLanguage articles citing Ethnologue 18"Related ethnic groups" needing confirmation