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Notes on the Inuit ( for a Social Studies project )

Sources: {{ :/ The only sites that actually told information I needed to back-up my information; other than prior knowledge ahaha... }}

- http://www.ducksters.com/history/native_americans/inuit_peoples.php

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inuit

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inupiat

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenlandic_Inuit

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thule_people

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- Inuit are a group of culturally similar indigenous peoples inhabiting the Arctic regions of Greenland, Canada, and Alaska.

- They are considered to be descended from the Thule (Proto-Inuit) and perhaps even the Dorset (another early tribe).

- The peoples included under the name "Inuit" are the actual Inuit people of Canada, the Greenlandic Inuit, and the Inupiat of Alaska; "Eskimo" is considered a pejorative term by the aboriginal peoples in Canada and Greenland. "Inuit" is not accepted when referring to the Yupik (found in Alaska and Siberia), thus they are not considered such. In other words, there are only the Greenlandic Inuit; Canadian Inuit; and then a group of Alaskan natives, the Inupiat.

- Populations in each area where actual Inuit peoples reside are:

 United States; 16,581

Canada; 50,480

Greenland; 51,365

- Inuit speak Inuinnaqtun, Inuktitut, Inuvialuktun, and Greenlandic languages, which belong to the Inuit-Inupiaq branch of the Eskimo–Aleut language family... The Greenlandic languages are divided into: Kalaallisut (Western), Inuktun (Northern), and Tunumiit (Eastern). Inuktitut is spoken in Canada, and along with Inuinnaqtun, is one of the official languages of Nunavut and are known collectively as the Inuit Language. In the Northwest Territories, Inuvialuktun, Inuinnaqtun and Inuktitut are all official langues. Kalaallisut is the official languages of Greenland. As Inuktitut was the language of the Eastern Canadian Inuit and Kalaallisut is the language of the Western Greenlandic Inuit, they are related more closely than most other dialects. The Inuktitut language is taught in schools and used widely in Greenlandic media; also in Greenland, Inuit also speak Danish and learn English in school. Canadian Inuit may also speak Québécois French. Inupiat now speak only two native languages: North Alaskan Inupiat and Northwest Alaskan Inupiat. Many more dialects of these languages flourished prior to contact with European cultures. English is mostly spoken by the Inupiat because in Native American boarding schools, Inupiaq children were punished for speaking their own languages.

- The division of labor in traditional Inuit society had a strong gender component, but it was not absolute. The men were traditionally hunters and fishermen and the women took care of the children, cleaned the home, sewed, processed food, and cooked. However, it was also not uncommon for the roles to be reversed; women hunting and fishing while men, who could be away from camp for several days at a time, would be expected to sew and cook.

- Culturally, Inupiat are divided into two regional hunter-gatherer groups: 

    The Taġiuġmiut (formerly Tareumiut) («people of sea»), living on or near the north Alaska coast.