The Inughuit (singular: Inughuaq), Inuhuit, or Smith Sound Inuit, historically called Arctic Highlanders or Polar Eskimos, are an ethnic subgroup of the...
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Pituffik is a former Inughuit settlement in North Star Bay, near Mount Dundas at the eastern end of Bylot Sound in northern Greenland. The area is now...
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Cape York,: 65 at which time there were reportedly only 140 Inughuit.: 61 (The Inughuit of North Greenland, the Kalaallit of West Greenland, and Inuit...
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(east Greenland), who speak Tunumiit oraasiat ("East Greenlandic") the Inughuit of north Greenland, who speak Inuktun ("Polar Inuit") Historically, Kalaallit...
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Greenlandic culture is a blending of traditional Inuit (Kalaallit, Tunumiit, Inughuit) and Scandinavian culture. Inuit, or Kalaallit, culture has a strong artistic...
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Inuktun (redirect from Inughuit language)
polarinuitisk, thulesproget) is the language of approximately 1,000 Indigenous Inughuit (Polar Inuit), inhabiting the world's northernmost settlements in Qaanaaq...
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Piblokto (category Inughuit)
pibloktoq and Arctic hysteria, is a condition most commonly appearing in Inughuit (Northwest Greenlandic Inuit) societies living within the Arctic Circle...
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Qalaherriaq (category Inughuit people)
of a massacre of Franklin's crew, but only found the corpses of local Inughuit and crew from an unrelated British vessel. With the help of the crew of...
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seal skin. Making kiviak has traditionally been a community effort in Inughuit culture. Up to 500 whole auks are packed into the seal skin, beaks and...
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but was likely within the last few thousand years. It was known to the Inughuit (the local Inuit) for centuries, who used it as a source of meteoritic...
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into isolated groups, with inhabitants of the northwest diverging as the Inughuit. As they lost access to open water due to thickening sea ice, they lost...
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is the strait to the south, between the islands and the mainland. The Inughuit settlements of Narsaarsuk and Pituffik were once on the shore of the bay...
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sub-group of these people. The word Inuit (varying forms Iñupiat, Inuvialuit, Inughuit, etc.), however, is an ancient self-referential to a group of peoples which...
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Greenland), who speak Tunumiit oraasiat ("East Greenlandic"); and the Inughuit of north Greenland, who speak Inuktun. The word Eskimo is a racially charged...
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(Western) Greenland Inuit are called Inuit, Inivit or Inivi (Kalaallit) and Inughuit, respectively. About 80% to 88% of Greenland's population, or approximately...
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west Greenland and moved into east Greenland over the following century (Inughuit, Kalaallit and Tunumiit are modern Greenlandic Inuit groups descended from...
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needed] In 1818, Sir John Ross's expedition made first contact with nomadic Inughuit in the area. James Saunders's expedition aboard HMS North Star was marooned...
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variety is Tunumiit oraasiat, or East Greenlandic. The language of the Inughuit (Thule Inuit) of Greenland, Inuktun or Polar Eskimo, is a recent arrival...
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Igloolik and Nunavik, as well in Greenland such as Kitaamiut Inuit and Inughuit, though Iiviit used the words tikkaliaq and nuliakaaliaq. The Netsilik...
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the bottom of the sea. (Rasmussen, 1921, p. 113) This myth is from the Inughuit (Polar Eskimos), of Smith Sound (in northern Greenland). Nerrivik Polar...
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Greenlandic Inuit (Kalaallisut: kalaallit, Tunumiisut: tunumiit, Inuktun: inughuit) are the Indigenous and most populous ethnic group in Greenland. This means...
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Schrire mentions diverse studies ranging from 15% to 80%. Polar Inuit (Inughuit) killed the child by throwing him or her into the sea. There is even a...
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On the other hand, Northern and Eastern Greenlanders call themselves Inughuit and Tunumiit, respectively. About 80% to 88% of Greenland's population...
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Uusarqak Qujaukitsoq (category Inughuit people)
the rights of Inughuit", expelled in 1953. He filmed the 2003 film Aulahuliat, which reproduces images of the dispute between Inughuit and Americans and...
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film is narrated in Inuktitut by Navarana K'avigak' Sørensen, a polyglot Inughuit linguist who is the great-great-great-niece of a Baffin Island shaman who...
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(2005). "Most People are Pretty Happy, but There is Cultural Variation: The Inughuit, the Amish, and the Maasai". Journal of Happiness Studies. 6 (3): 205–226...
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Greenland to Pituffik in search of the Northwest Passage and encounters the Inughuit (Greenlandic Inuit) of Cape York 1819: Royal Navy expedition aboard HMS Hecla...
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nickel. During the (north) Polar Exploration of the early 20th century, Inughuit, northern Greenlandic Inuit, were found to be making iron knives from two...
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Aleut and other related peoples about 4,000 years ago, Inuit had reached Inughuit Nunaat[clarification needed] in western Greenland by about 1300 CE, bringing...
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Nunavut; Greenland; Alaska, United States Greenlandic Inuit: Greenland Inughuit: North Greenland Kalaallit: West Greenland Tunumiit: East Greenland Inupiat...
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