Inuit[a] are a group of culturally and historically similar Indigenous peoples traditionally inhabiting the Arctic and Subarctic regions of North America and Russia, including Greenland, Labrador, Quebec, Nunavut, the Northwest Territories, Yukon (traditionally [b]), Alaska, and the Chukotsky District of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug.

Mar 25, 2025 · 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 East region of Russia.

Mar 29, 2021 · There are approximately over 150,000 Inuit globally, with 65,000 in Canada, 35,000 in Alaska, 50,000 Greenland, and smaller populations in Siberia. Inuit spiritualism is animistic, which is the belief that everything on earth, from objects to animals, is inhabited by a …

The Inuit are an indigenous people of the Arctic and subarctic regions of North America (parts of Alaska, Canada, and Greenland). The ancestors of the present-day Inuit are culturally related to Iñupiat (northern Alaska), and Yupik (Siberia and western Alaska), [1] and the Aleut who live in the Aleutian Islands of Siberia and Alaska.

Apr 27, 2020 · There are 64,000 Inuit living throughout Canada. Kayaks, snowshoes, and snow googles are all Inuit inventions. Inuit territories, called the Inuit Nunangat, make up nearly 40% of the Canadian landmass. Despite being one of the harshest and most inhospitable landscapes on the planet, the Arctic has been inhabited for thousands of years.

Jun 8, 2010 · Inuit — Inuktitut for “the people” — are an Indigenous people, the majority of whom inhabit the northern regions of Canada. An Inuit person is known as an Inuk. The Inuit homeland is known as Inuit Nunangat, which refers to the land, water and ice contained in the Arctic region.

Occupying lands that stretch 12,000 miles from parts of Siberia, along the Alaskan coast, across Canada, and on to Greenland, the Inuit are one of the most widely dispersed people in the world, but number only about 60,000 in population. Between 25,000 and 35,000 reside in Alaska, with other smaller groups in Canada, Greenland, and Siberia.

Amid a warming climate and disappearing traditional knowledge, Inuit communities in the Canadian Arctic are grappling to adapt. When sea ice ages, the salt sinks into the ocean, leaving fresh,...

The Inuit are one of many groups of indigenous people in the Americas and live in very cold places in the Arctic: northern Canada, Greenland, and Alaska. The word Inuit means "the people" in Inuktitut, their language.

Inuit (plural: the singular, Inuk, means "man" or "person") is a general term for a group of culturally similar indigenous peoples inhabiting the Arctic regions of Alaska, Greenland, and Canada, and Siberia.