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Inuit Young Alaskan Inuit Illustration of a semi-subterranean Eskimo dwelling with a snow-covered roof, showing a cutaway view of the home's interior. Labeled features include a sloped entrance passage, doorway, entrance to the main room, a storage area above, and a smoke vent in the roof. Inside, two people are seated on the floor surrounded by household items, highlighting traditional sub-Arctic Aleut or Inuit architecture and living arrangements. Inuit family Kayak Inuit igluvigaq being built Eskimo man with a large handheld drum made of walrus stomach or bladder, Nunivak Island, 1929. walrus ivory shaman figure painted wooden mask
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Inuit

people
Also known as: Innuit
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Karla Jessen Williamson
Assistant Professor, Educational Foundations, University of Saskatchewan; former executive director for the Arctic Institute of North America, University of Calgary; and author of Inherit My Heaven:...
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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. The culturally related Unangan/Unangas/Unangax̂ (Aleuts) live in the Aleutian Islands. As a group, Inuit occupy regions that are among the most extensive and northernmost in the...

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