1960-63: Frobisher Bay is the location of a U.S. Strategic Air Command Unit. By 1963, when the American Air Force leaves, Frobisher Bay become the Canadian government administration, communications and transportation centre for the Eastern Arctic. 1976: The Inuit Tapirisaat of Canada (ITC) pro...
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‘Eskimo’ is commonly believed to be derived from a derogatory Algonquian term meaning ‘eaters of raw meat’; it has been replaced with Inuit, meaning ‘people,’ in most of Canada, and the language is referred to variously as Inuinnaqtun, Inuttun, Inuktitut, and by other names. The...
NorthwestTerritories,Nunatsiavut,Nunavik,Nunavut,Nunatukavut),Denmark(Greenland),Russia(Siberia)andtheUnitedStates(Alaska).Inuitmeans“thepeople”intheInuitlanguage.InCanadaandGreenland,theNativespreferthewordInuit.Astheyconsider"Eskimo"pejorative,ithasfallenoutoffavor....
Traditional Inuit clothing is a complex system of cold-weather garments historically made from animal hide and fur, worn by Inuit, a group of culturally related Indigenous peoples inhabiting the Arctic areas of Canada, Greenland, and the United States. The basic outfit consisted of a parka, pant...
The Denbigh, also known as the Small Tool culture, began some 5000 years ago, and over the course of the next millennia it spread westward though Arctic Alaska and Canada. Oriented to the sea and to living with snow, the Denbigh most likely originated the snow house. Characterized by ...
In Canada, the word Inuktitut is routinely used to refer to all Canadian variants of the Inuit traditional language, and it is under that name that it is recognized as one of the official languages of Nunavut and the Northwest Territories. However, one of the variants of western Nunavut is...
Showing a limited preview of this publication: Joke Schuit17 Inuit Sign Language1 Basic facts about the languageLanguage name:Inuit Sign Language, Inuit Uukturausingit in Inuktitut, abbreviat-ed to IUR.Location:Throughout different communities in the territory of Nunavut, Canada.Varieties:Researc...
While a large amount of data from different sources were used to establish the location of the corridors, important local and Indigenous knowledge from Arctic communities has yet to be considered in much detail. The Arctic Corridors and Northern Voices (ACNV) project was established in response ...
Inuinnaqtun (Western Canadian Inuit, Western Canadian Inuktitut)410Scattered coastal communities of Western and Northern Canada. Statutory provincial working language in Northwest territories. Inuktitut (Eastern Canadian Inuit)34,100Hudson Strait areas, east through Nunavut, southern Baffin Island, and ...