• The Goose Wife is a mythical female character that appears in tales from the Inuit and other ethnic groups that dwell across the circumpolar Arctic region...
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    Archaeological evidence indicates that the use of Inuit clothing extends far back into prehistory, with significant evidence to indicate that its basic...
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    The Eskaleut (/ɛˈskæliuːt/ e-SKAL-ee-oot), Eskimo–Aleut or Inuit–Yupik–Unangan languages are a language family native to the northern portions of the...
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  • with the help of local Inuit, was the successful six-year, 30,000-mile (50,000 km) search on Baffin Island for the blue goose (C. c. caerulescens) nesting...
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  • Annie Pootoogook (category Canadian Inuit women)
    of the Inuit community. Pootoogook was known for her drawings created in pen and coloured pencils that depict contemporary Inuit life. Inuit life and...
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    small, predominantly Inuit community in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut, Canada, located on northern Baffin Island. To the Inuit the name of the place...
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    their son a bush, and she a goose. The old woman tries to draw the goose to her by giving her a magic egg, but the goose hides the egg under her wings...
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  • Tim Pitsiulak (category Inuit drawing artists)
    for his large coloured-pencil drawings of Arctic scenery, wildlife, and Inuit culture. Timootee Pitsiulak was born in Lake Harbour (now Kimmirut), Northwest...
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    "Raven and Goose-Wife" The Inuit (formerly Eskimo, now a discredited term) are native to Alaska, Northern Canada and Greenland. In Inuit culture the...
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    Makkovik (category Inuit community governments in Newfoundland and Labrador)
    Makkovik (Inuit: Maggovik) is a town in Labrador in eastern Canada. It had 365 residents in 2021. The main industry is snow crabbing and there is a fishing...
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  • Randy Edmunds (politician) (category Inuit politicians)
    the town council of Happy Valley-Goose Bay. His uncle Wally Andersen is also a politician. Edmunds, who is of Inuit descent and was born in North West...
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  • This is a partial list of Canadian Inuit. The Arctic and subarctic dwelling Inuit (formerly referred to as Eskimo) are a group of culturally similar indigenous...
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    film Searchers is a partial remake of the film, in which an Inuit man in 1913 finds his wife and daughter have been kidnapped. However, co-director Zacharias...
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    party of 13 (American Charles Wells and 12 Inuit). In 1924, the Soviet Union removed the American and 13 Inuit (one was born on the island) of this settlement...
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    evidence of Pre-Columbian contact between the Old and New Worlds if the Norse–Inuit contact on Greenland is not counted. The next European visitors to Newfoundland...
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  • scholarship argues for the existence of the tale type among Arctic peoples (i.e., Inuit), related to a legend about the origin of marine animal life. Professor...
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    in response to a tuberculosis epidemic. It served both First Nations and Inuit patients. Today the Weeneebayko General Hospital provides medical services...
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    oddest "person" said to be buried here is the "Pantomime character" Mother Goose. Her burial was recorded by the parish registers on 14 September 1586. A...
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    and traders increasingly wore mukluks; hide boots originally crafted by Inuit peoples using sealskin and caribou skin. Mukluks were designed for maneuverability...
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  • 'American Idol', 'Grey's Anatomy', 'Two and a Half Men', 'The Office' & 'Wife Swap' Adjusted Up; 'Scandal' & 'The Mindy Project' Adjusted Down". TV by...
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    Nunavut, Canada. Though Prince Charles Island has no permanent residents, Inuit visited the island to hunt caribou; the island has no specific name in the...
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  • English, this dialect features rhoticity, the Low Back Merger Shift, and GOOSE fronting (led by women speakers). Canadian raising also still exists, however...
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  • the English translation. Vulcan Raven (バルカン・レイブン, Barukan Reibun) is an Inuit member of FOXHOUND who wields a giant Vulcan cannon and has shamanic powers...
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    of the death of the Queen in September 2022, Prince Andrew and his former wife, Sarah, Duchess of York, were to take care of Muick and Sandy. Corgis have...
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    and related languages spoken by the Inuit in Canada, Greenland and Alaska, retain the original plurals. The word Inuit itself is the plural form. Canadian...
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  • Davidee Itulu (category Inuit artists)
    Davidee Itulu (June 4, 1929 – April 15, 2006) was an Inuit artist. Itulu was born in Tujjaat, near Cape Dorset, Nunavut. He moved to Kimmirut in the 1950s...
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    Alaska. The traditional clothing systems developed and used by the Yup’ik, Inuit and Nuniwarmiut peoples performs similarly to the most effective cold weather...
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    stretches from the very north of the North American continent where the Inuit population has lived for centuries, to the tip of South America where indigenous...
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  • Kirkina Mucko (category Inuit from Newfoundland and Labrador)
    Jeffries (another source calls the father Emo Jeffery), an Inuit-Scots trapper and his wife. As a toddler, her legs were frozen and amputated below the...
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  • food OLLA – ceramic stew pot ULU – knife traditionally used by Yup'ik, Inuit, and Aleut women RADII – plural of radius, straight line from the centre...
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