An Aboriginal people in northern Canada, who live above the tree line in the Northwest Territories, and in Northern Quebec and Labrador. The word means "people" in the Inuit language - Inuktitut. The singular of Inuit is Inuk.
are Aboriginal peoples of Canada that have traditionally used and occupied, and currently use and occupy, the lands and waters of the area ranging from the Yukon and Northwest Territories to northern Quebec and Labrador. They are sometimes refereed to as ‘Eskimo', which is considered a derogatory term by the Inuit themselves. Politically, the Inuit were never included in the Indian Act, but became a federal responsibility in 1939. In 1972, the Inuit Tapirisat of Canada (ITC) was established to preserve their culture.
a separate group of the First Nations occupying small communities north of the treeline in Canada's Far North, stretching from the Mackenzie River Delta, through the Arctic Islands and Baffin Island, along the coast of Hudson Bay and Ungava Bay in Quebec, to the east coast of Labrador.
a member of a people inhabiting the Arctic (northern Canada or Greenland or Alaska or eastern Siberia); the Algonquians called them Eskimo (`eaters of raw flesh') but they call themselves the Inuit (`the people')
Inuit are the Aboriginal people of Arctic Canada who live primarily in Nunavut, the Northwest Territories and northern parts of Labrador and Quebec. The word "Inuit" means "the people" in Inuktitut, the Inuit language.
inn-oo-wit]- translated roughly as "true men" or "the real people", this is the preferred term for Eskimo in Northern Canada and Greenland.
Inuit are the Aboriginal People of Arctic Canada. Inuit live primarily in the Northwest Territories, Nunavut and northern parts of Quebec and throughout most of Labrador. They have traditionally lived north of the tree line in the areas bordered by the Mackenzie Delta in the west, the Labrador coast in the east, the southern point of Hudson Bay in the south, and the High Arctic islands in the north. The word Inuit means "the people" in Inuktitut and is the term by which Inuit refer to themselves. The Indian Act does not cover Inuit. However, in 1939, the Supreme Court of Canada interpreted the federal government's power to make laws affecting "Indians, and lands reserved for Indians" as extending to Inuit. Inuit live in communities and settlements. Inuit never lived on reserves, therefore the terms on-reserve or off-reserve do not apply to Inuit only to First Nations. There are four Inuit comprehensive land claims regions covering one-third of Canada: they are Unuvialuit, Nunavut, Nunavik and Labrador. Nunavut has three subregions-Kitikmeot, Kivalliq and Qikiqtaaluk.
A people who live in the north of Canada and Greenland. Traditionally, they live from animals and fish. When there is only one person, she or he is called an Inuk.
Native people who live in the arctic regions of Canada, and in Greenland and Alaska.
aboriginal people whose origins are different from people known as "North American Indians." The Inuit generally live in northern Canada and Alaska. "Inuit" has, in recent years, replaced the term "Eskimo."
an Aboriginal people living in the Arctic (northern Canada, Alaska, Greenland and eastern Siberia)
Aboriginal people in northern Canada, living mainly in Nunavut, Northwest Territories, northern Quebec and Labrador. Ontario has a very small Inuit population. The Inuit are not covered by the Indian Act. The federal government has entered into several major land claim settlements with the Inuit.
(Inuit) The Aboriginal people of Arctic Canada. Inuit live in arctic and subarctic Canada, Nunavut, the Northwest and Yukon Territories and northern parts of Labrador and Quebec. There are approximately 45,000 Inuit in Canada; they share many similarities of language and cultural values. See also: Aboriginal peoples, First Nations people, Indians, Métis, Registered Indians, Non-Status Indians, Status Indians, and Treaty Indians
The people who inhabit the Arctic and sub-Arctic along the shores of north-west Greenland, Northern Quebec, Labrador, the islands in the Bering Strait and the Aleutians. The Inuit are descended from an Alaskan and Asian people who spread eastward in the first millennium.
Inuit (Inuktitut syllabics, áƒá“„áƒá‘¦, singular Inuk / áƒá“„á’ƒhttp://www.gov.nu.ca/Nunavut/English/font/ fonts required) is a general term for a group of culturally similar indigenous peoples inhabiting the Arctic coasts of Siberia, Alaska, the Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Quebec, Labrador in Canada, and Greenland. Until fairly recent times, there has been a remarkable homogeneity in the culture throughout this area, which traditionally relied on fish, sea mammals, and land animals for food, heat, light, clothing, tools, and shelter. Their language, sometimes incorrectly called Inuktitut, is grouped under Inuit language or Eskimo-Aleut languages.