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Mar 29, 2021 · The Inuit people live in Alaska, Canada, Siberia, and Greenland, with most of them inhabiting northern Canada. There are approximately 150,000 Inuit globally, with approximately 65,000 in Canada, 35,000 in Alaska, 50,000 Greenland, and smaller populations in Siberia.
Mackenzie Eskimo. Inuit, group of culturally and linguistically unique Indigenous peoples of the Arctic and subarctic regions whose homelands encompass Kalaallit Nunaat ( Greenland, a self-governing overseas administrative division of Denmark), Arctic Canada, northern and southwestern Alaska in the United States, and part of Chukotka in the Far ...
The lives of Paleo-Eskimos of the far north were largely unaffected by the arrival of visiting Norsemen except for mutual trade. After the disappearance of the Norse colonies in Greenland, Inuit had no contact with Europeans for at least a century.
Jun 8, 2010 · In 2021, approximately 69 per cent of all Inuit in Canada lived in Inuit Nunangat, with 44 per cent living in Nunavut, followed by Nunavik (in northern Québec ), the western arctic ( Northwest Territories and Yukon ), known as Inuvialuit, and Nunatsiavut (located along the northern coast of Labrador ).
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There are between 171,000 and 187,000 Inuit and Yupik, the majority of whom live in or near their traditional circumpolar homeland. Of these, 53,785 (2010) live in the United States, 65,025 (2016) in Canada, 51,730 (2021) in Greenland and 1,657 (2021) in Russia.
About 45,000 Inuit live in 53 communities in: Nunatsiavut (Labrador); Nunavik (Quebec); Nunavut; and the Inuvialuit Settlement Region of the Northwest Territories. Each of these four Inuit groups have settled land claims.
Today, the Inuit communities of Canada live in the Inuit Nunangat—loosely defined as “Inuit homeland”—which is divided into four regions. The term Inuit refers broadly to the Arctic indigenous population of Alaska, Canada, and Greenland.
