Editing Eskimo (section)

== Inuit ==
{{Further|Inuit|Lists of Inuit}}
{{distinguish|text=the [[Innu]], a First Nations people in eastern Quebec and Labrador}}
[[File:Eskimo fisherman's summer house, Alaska page 250.png|thumb|upright|Eskimo ([[Yup'ik]] of [[Nelson Island (Alaska)|Nelson Island]]) fisherman's summer house]]

Inuit inhabit the [[Arctic]] and northern [[Bering Sea]] coasts of Alaska in the United States, and Arctic coasts of the [[Northwest Territories]], [[Nunavut]], [[Quebec]], and [[Labrador]] in Canada, and Greenland (associated with Denmark). Until fairly recent times, there has been a remarkable homogeneity in the culture throughout this area, which traditionally relied on fish, [[marine mammal]]s, and land animals for food, heat, light, clothing, and tools. Their food sources primarily relied on seals, whales, whale blubber, walrus, and fish, all of which they hunted using harpoons on the ice.<ref name="ENBR"/> Clothing consisted of robes made of wolfskin and reindeer skin to acclimate to the low temperatures.<ref>{{cite book |last=Nelson |first=Edward William |title=The Eskimo about Bering Strait |publisher=U.S. G.P.O. |date=1899}}</ref> They maintain a unique [[Inuit culture]].

=== Greenland's Inuit ===
{{Main|Greenlandic Inuit}}
[[Greenlandic Inuit]] make up 90% of Greenland's population.<ref name=CIAworld/> They belong to three major groups:
* [[Kalaallit]] of west Greenland, who speak [[West Greenlandic|Kalaallisut]]
* [[Tunumiit]] of east Greenland, who speak [[Tunumiit dialect|Tunumiisut]]
* [[Inughuit]] of north Greenland, who speak [[Inuktun]] or Polar Eskimo.<ref name="ethno"/>

=== Canadian Inuit ===
{{Main|Inuit}}
Canadian Inuit live primarily in [[Inuit Nunangat]] (lit. "lands, waters and ices of the [Inuit] people"), their traditional homeland although some people live in southern parts of Canada. Inuit Nunangat ranges from the Yukon–Alaska border in the west across the Arctic to northern Labrador.

The [[Inuvialuit]] live in the [[Inuvialuit Settlement Region]], the northern part of [[Yukon]] and the [[Northwest Territories]], which stretches to the [[Amundsen Gulf]] and the [[Nunavut]] border and includes the western [[Arctic Archipelago|Canadian Arctic Islands]]. The land was demarked in 1984 by the Inuvialuit Final Agreement.

The majority of Inuit live in Nunavut (a [[Provinces and territories of Canada|territory of Canada]]), [[Nunavik]] (the northern part of [[Quebec]]) and in [[Nunatsiavut]] (Inuit settlement region in [[Labrador]]).<ref name=statscan/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://indigenouspeoplesatlasofcanada.ca/article/inuit-nunangat/ |title=Inuit Nunangat |access-date=April 3, 2021 |publisher=[[Canadian Geographic]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.itk.ca/inuit-nunangat-map/ |title=Map of Inuit Nunangat |date=April 4, 2019 |access-date=April 3, 2021 |publisher=[[Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://irc.inuvialuit.com/about-irc/inuvialuit-final-agreement |title=Inuvialuit Final Agreement |date=21 November 2016 |access-date=April 2, 2021 |publisher=Inuvialuit Regional Corporation}}</ref>

=== Alaska's Iñupiat ===
{{Main|Iñupiat}}
[[File:Inupiat Family from Noatak, Alaska, 1929, Edward S. Curtis (restored).jpg|thumb|An [[Iñupiat]] family from [[Noatak, Alaska]], 1929]]

The Iñupiat are Inuit of Alaska's [[Northwest Arctic Borough, Alaska|Northwest Arctic]] and [[North Slope Borough, Alaska|North Slope]] boroughs and the [[Bering Strait]]s region, including the Seward Peninsula.<ref>{{Cite journal|url=https://csalateral.org/issue/7-2/indigenous-cosmopolitanism-alaska-native-heritage-center-tyquiengco/attachment/ic_lateral2-3/|title=IC_Lateral2|journal=Lateral|year=2018}}</ref> [[Utqiaġvik]], the northernmost city in the United States, is above the [[Arctic Circle]] and in the Iñupiat region. Their language is known as [[Inupiaq language|Iñupiaq]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.alaskanativelanguages.org/inupiaq |title=Inupiatun |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=n.d. |website=Alaska Native Languages |publisher=Alaska Humanities Forum |access-date=May 8, 2021 |quote=Iñupiaq/Inupiaq is spoken by the Iñupiat/Inupiat on the Seward Peninsula, the Northwest Arctic and the North Slope of Alaska and in Western Canada. |archive-date=May 10, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210510143606/https://www.alaskanativelanguages.org/inupiaq |url-status=dead }}</ref> Their current communities include 34 villages across ''Iñupiat Nunaŋat'' (Iñupiaq lands) including seven [[List of Alaska Native tribal entities|Alaskan villages]] in the [[North Slope Borough, Alaska|North Slope Borough]], affiliated with the [[Arctic Slope Regional Corporation]]; eleven villages in [[Northwest Arctic Borough, Alaska|Northwest Arctic Borough]]; and sixteen villages affiliated with the [[Bering Straits Regional Corporation]].<ref name=medicine>[http://www.nnlm.nlm.nih.gov/archive/20061109155450/inupiaq.html "Inupiaq (Inupiat)—Alaska Native Cultural Profile."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140821193420/http://www.nnlm.nlm.nih.gov/archive/20061109155450/inupiaq.html |date=2014-08-21 }} ''National Network of Libraries of Medicine.'' Retrieved 4 Dec 2013.</ref>