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Inuit

Also known as Inuk

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.

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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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Ethnic group.group: Inuit
Ethnic group.image: 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)
Ethnic group.langs: Inuit languages and Inuit Sign Language Non-native European languages:English, Danish, French, and Russian
Ethnonym.root: Inu- ᐃᓄ- / nuna ᓄᓇ"person" / "land"
Ethnonym.person: Inuk ᐃᓄᒃDual: Inuuk ᐃᓅᒃ
Ethnonym.people: Inuit ᐃᓄᐃᑦ
Ethnonym.language: Inuit languages
Ethnonym.country: Inuit Nunangat / ᐃᓄᐃᑦ ᓄᓇᖓᑦ(Inuvialuit Nunangit, Nunavut, Nunavik, Nunatsiavut) Iñupiat Nunaŋat Kalaallit Nunaat

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Research

5,383 papers

Inuit youth health and wellbeing programming in Canada.ReviewInternational journal of circumpolar health · 2024Toor JSK, Lavoie JG, Mudryj ADOI: 10.1080/22423982.2024.2376799
Inuit metabolism revisited: what drove the selective sweep of CPT1a L479?ReviewMolecular genetics and metabolism · 2020Hale NDOI: 10.1016/j.ymgme.2020.01.010
Inuit Country Food and Health during Pregnancy and Early Childhood in the Circumpolar North: A Scoping Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Caughey AB, Sargeant JM, Møller H et al.DOI: 10.3390/ijerph18052625
Circumpolar Inuit health systems.ReviewInternational journal of circumpolar health · 2013Ellsworth L, O'Keeffe ADOI: 10.3402/ijch.v72i0.21402
Reproductive health interventions for Inuit youth in the north: a scoping review.Reproductive health · 2021Mikhail H, Kelly SE, Davison CMDOI: 10.1186/s12978-021-01119-6
Lung cancer in First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples in Canada - a scoping review.International journal of circumpolar health · 2024O'Grady JR, Ferdus J, Leylachian S et al.DOI: 10.1080/22423982.2024.2381879
Inuit mental health service utilisation in Manitoba: results from the qanuinngitsiarutiksait study.International journal of circumpolar health · 2024Lavoie JG, Clark W, McDonnell L et al.DOI: 10.1080/22423982.2024.2413228
Cancer patterns in Inuit populations.ReviewThe Lancet. Oncology · 2008Friborg JT, Melbye MDOI: 10.1016/S1470-2045(08)70231-6

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Wikidata facts

Population: 110783
Image: Inuit-Kleidung 1.jpg

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Commons category: Inuit
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native label: ᐃᓄᐃᑦ
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Article

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Contents

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

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.