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2 days ago · Nunavut, vast territory of northern Canada that stretches across most of the Canadian Arctic. Created in 1999 out of the eastern portion of the Northwest Territories, Nunavut encompasses the traditional lands of the Inuit, the indigenous peoples of Arctic Canada. Its capital is Iqaluit.
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Nunavut - Inuit, Arctic, Canada: This portion of the article...
- Innuitian Mountains
Innuitian Mountains, mountain range in Nunavut, Canada. It...
- Iqaluit
Iqaluit, city, capital of Nunavut territory and headquarters...
- Melville
Table of Contents Melville Island, one of the largest of the...
- Davis Strait
The strait is named for John Davis, an English navigator who...
- Belcher Islands
Belcher Islands, archipelago in southeastern Hudson Bay,...
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2 days ago · 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.
2 days ago · The Inuit and Unangan ( Aleuts) inhabit the treeless shores and tundra-covered coastal hinterlands of northernmost North America and Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaat).
2 days ago · Nearly nine-tenths of Greenlanders are principally of Inuit extraction. They identify themselves as Kalaallit (West Greenlanders), Inugguit (from Thule district), or Iit (East Greenlanders), depending upon their region. They are very strongly admixed with early European immigrant strains.
5 days ago · Alaska Natives are the indigenous peoples of Alaska. They include: Aleut, Inuit, Tlingit, Haida, Tsimshian, Eyak, and a number of Northern Athabasca cultures. Alaskan natives in Alaska number about 119,241 (as of the 2000 census). There are 229 federally recognized Alaskan villages and five unrecognized Tlingit Alaskan Indian tribes.
4 days ago · The Yupik Eskimos of the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta area in Western Alaska live in an environment made up of a mostly flat, marshy plain crisscrossed by many waterways, which the Yupik use in place of roads.
1 day ago · Linguistic groups of Arctic people have no universal replacement term for Eskimo, inclusive of all Inuit and Yupik across the geographical area inhabited by them. [ 7 ] Besides these ethnic descriptors, Aboriginal peoples are often divided into legal categories based on their relationship with the Crown (i.e. the state).
