Inuvialuit
Sign in to saveThe Inuvialuit (sing. Inuvialuk; ) or Western Canadian Inuit are Inuit who live in the western Canadian Arctic region. They, like all other Inuit, are descendants of the Thule who migrated eastward from Alaska. 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 inland community of Aklavik and part of Yukon. The land was demarked in 1984 by the Inuvialuit Final Agreement.
Key facts
- Ethnic group.group
- Inuvialuit
- Ethnic group.flag_caption
- The flag of the Inuvialuit people, depicting a gyrfalcon.
- Ethnic group.image
- Eileen Jacobson - Inuvialuit Guide - Tuktoyaktuk - Northwest Territories - Canada.jpg
- Ethnic group.image_caption
- Eileen Jacobson, Inuvialuk guide
- Ethnic group.population
- 3,145 (as of 2021)
- Ethnic group.popplace
- CanadaNorthwest Territories
- Ethnic group.rels
- Inuit religion, Christianity
- Ethnic group.langs
- Inuvialuktun(Sallirmiutun, Uummarmiutun, Kangiryuarmiutun), English
- Ethnic group.related
- Other Inuit and Eskimo
- Ethnonym.root
- Inu- ᐃᓄ- / nuna ᓄᓇ"person" / "land"
- Ethnonym.person
- Inuvialuk
- Ethnonym.people
- Inuvialuit
- Ethnonym.language
- Inuvialuktun
- Ethnonym.country
- Inuvialuit Nunangit(part of Inuit Nunangat)
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The Inuvialuit (sing. Inuvialuk; ) or Western Canadian Inuit are Inuit who live in the western Canadian Arctic region. They, like all other Inuit, are descendants of the Thule who migrated eastward from Alaska. 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 inland community of Aklavik and part of Yukon. The land was demarked in 1984 by the Inuvialuit Final Agreement.
==History and migration== thumb|left|Traditional Inuvialuit whaling camp near [[Tuktoyaktuk]] thumb|left|Map of the Inuvialuit homeland