| LC control no. | sh 90004192 |
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| Topical heading | Inuvialuit |
| Variant(s) | Chiglit Inuit Eastern Inuvialuit Inuvialuit Eskimos Kivaninmiut Kopagmiut Mackenzie Eskimos Siglit Inuit Tchiglit Inuit Ualinirmiut Uummaġmiut Uummarmiut Western Arctic Inuit Western Canadian Inuit |
| See also | Inuit--Northwest Territories Inuit--Yukon |
| Found in | Work cat.: McMillan, A. Native peoples and cultures of Canada, 1988: p. 259 (Inhabitants of western Canadian Arctic known as Inuvialuit) Comm. for Orig. Peoples Entitlement. Western Arctic claim, 1984 (Inuvialuit) Lowe, R. Siglit Inuvialuit ... 1984: p. vii (Eskimo of the Canadian Western Arctic call themselves Inuvialuit) McMillan, A. Native peoples and cultures of Canada, 1988: p. 259 (Mackenzie Delta Inuit; Chiglit, original inhabitants, nearly exterminated by epidemics; remaining Chiglit largely assimilated by more recent Alaskan groups moving into area; inhabitants today known as Inuvialuit) Murdock world cult.: p. 110 (Mackenzie or Tchiglit Eskimo) Hodge handbk. Am. Ind. (Kopagmiut, Chiglit) Canadian Oxford dictionary, 2004: Inuvialuit (noun an Inuit people of the W Canadian Arctic, speaking Inuvialuktun. adjective of or relating to this people) Inuvialuk (noun a member of the Inuvialuit people. adjective designating a member of the Inuvialuit people) The Canadian encyclopedia, online, viewed 14 July 2022: Inuvialuit (Inuvialuit originally occupied the western Canadian arctic coast from Barter Island in the west to Cape Bathurst in the east, as well as the northern portion of the Mackenzie River Delta; numbering about 2000 during the 19th century, they formed the densest Inuit population in arctic Canada, and were divided into five regional groups of 200 to 1000, each with a way of life adapted to its own area; the group west of the Mackenzie River fished and hunted caribou in summer and hunted seals in winter, while those at Cape Bathurst hunted bowhead whale in summer and seals in winter; largest group was in the Mackenzie Delta at the mouth of the main river channel, where people hunted beluga in summer and fished and hunted caribou and seal the rest of the year; social organization was family-based, with families and individuals owning property and evidence of hereditary chiefs; archaeology indicates that Inuvialuit are derived from a Thule population that moved eastward about 1000 AD and through the following centuries maintained trading and cultural ties with Alaskan Inuit, being the most easterly group to share in their relatively rich way of life; Mackenzie Inuit became involved in the 19th century in the European fur trade, first with indirect trade with Russian posts in Alaska and later with posts established in the Mackenzie Delta, and became heavily involved in the late 19th century with American whalers who hunted in the area; because of disease, their population had been reduced to 10% of previous levels by 1900, and their territory largely had been taken over by Alaskan Inuit and European trappers; descendants now live in communities, having negotiated a comprehensive land claim agreement with the government of Canada in 1984) Wikipedia, viewed 14 July 2022: Inuvialuit (The Inuvialuit (singular Inuvialuk; the real people) or Western Canadian Inuit are Inuit who live in the western Canadian Arctic region; today, the Inuvialuit number approximately 3,100; their homeland, the Inuvialuit Settlement Region, was demarked in 1984 by the Inuvialuit Final Agreement and covers 521,708 sq. km; before the 20th century, the region was primarily inhabited by Siglit Inuit, whose population was decimated in the second half of the 19th century, causing Nunatamiut, Alaskan Inuit, to move into traditional Siglit areas in the 1910s and 1920s and become known as Uummarmiut; originally there was an intense dislike between the Siglit and the Uummarmiut, but these differences have faded; those Inuvialuit who live in the west are called Ualinirmiut (Ualiniq) by the people of the east while those who live in the east are called Kivaninmiut (Kivaliniq) by the people of the west; traditional language is Inuvialuktun, made up of three or four dialects--Uummarmiutun, spoken by the Uummarmiut and written using Latin script, Siglitun, spoken by the Siglit and written using Latin script, Kangiryuarmiutun, spoken by the Kangiryuarmiut and essentially the same as Inuinnaqtun and written using Latin script, and Natsilingmiutut, spoken by the Netsilingmiut and written using syllabics) Siglit (the Siglit are group of Inuit residing in the delta of the Mackenzie River; part of the Inuvialuit; speak Siglitun, a severely-endangered dialect of Inuvialuktun) Uummarmiut (the Uummarmiut or Uummaġmiut (people of the green trees) are Inuvialuit who live predominantly in the Mackenzie Delta; their language is Uummarmiutun, an Inupiaq dialect of the Alaskan branch of the Eskimo-Aleut languages) Canadian subject headings, online, viewed 14 July 2022 (subject heading: Inuvialuit; use for references: Eastern Inuvialuit, Inuvialuit--Canada, Western Arctic Inuit; broader term: Inuit--Canada; scope note: Here are entered works on the Inuvialuit, an Inuit people who traditionally occupied the western Canadian Arctic coast and a portion of the Mackenzie River Delta, and still live in that area. Over time, other Inuit have mixed in through intermarriage, particularly Inuit from Alaska.) |
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