The site, known as the "Ukkuqsi archaeological site", was excavated. There they encountered the Norsemen, who had established colonies there since the late 10th century, as well as a later wave of the Dorset people. Mass death was caused by the new infectious diseases carried by whalers and explorers, to which the Indigenous peoples had no acquired immunity. In 1953, Denmark put an end to the colonial status of Greenland and granted home rule in 1979 and in 2008 a self-government referendum was passed with 75% approval.

Recently, there has been an identity struggle among the younger generations of Inuit, between their traditional heritage and the modern society which their cultures have been forced to assimilate into in order to maintain a livelihood.

[75] http://icor.ottawainuitchildrens.com/node/15 [91], The marital customs among the Inuit were not strictly monogamous: many Inuit relationships were implicitly or explicitly sexual. In 2005 the Canadian government acknowledged the abuses inherent in these forced resettlements. They had split from the related Aleut group about 4000 years ago and from northeastern Siberian migrants. Nonetheless, it has come together with other circumpolar cultural and political groups to promote the Inuit and other northern people in their fight against ecological problems such as climate change which disproportionately affects the Inuit population.

[135] In Nunavut the Inuit population forms a majority in all communities and is the only jurisdiction of Canada where Aboriginal peoples form a majority. Canadian Inuit may also speak Québécois French. The hood of an amauti, (women's parka, plural amautiit) was traditionally made extra large with a separate compartment below the hood to allow the mother to carry a baby against her back and protect it from the harsh wind. Justice within Inuit culture was moderated by the form of governance that gave significant power to the elders.

After 1904, they were accompanied by a handful of North West Mounted Police (NWMP). [87][88] Some, such as the Siglit, used driftwood,[89] while others built sod houses. The Inuit have traditionally been fishers and hunters. Where natural landmarks were insufficient, the Inuit would erect an inukshuk. Why? Some Inuit looked into the aurora borealis, or northern lights, to find images of their family and friends dancing in the next life. Long winter months of waiting for caribou herds or sitting near breathing holes hunting seals gave birth to stories of mysterious and sudden appearance of ghosts and fantastic creatures.

In the early 21st century, mitochondrial DNA research has supported the theory of continuity between the Tuniit and the Sadlermiut peoples.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPGAbctSHuY google_ad_slot = "7815442998"; A cultural event is also held. The husky dog breed comes from the Siberian Husky. In particular, he found that adequate vitamin C could be obtained from items in their traditional diet of raw meat such as ringed seal liver and whale skin (muktuk). But, in the mid-1950s, researcher Henry B. Collins determined that, based on the ruins found at Native Point, the Sadlermiut were likely the last remnants of the Dorset culture, or Tuniit. The TFN worked for ten years and, in September 1992, came to a final agreement with the Government of Canada.

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), the Inuit have had much interaction with and exposure to the societal norms outside their previous cultural boundaries.

Inuktitut translations provided by Halluuq Unqunqai. The more sparsely settled Inuit in the Central Arctic, however, did so less often. Their first European contact was with the Vikings who settled in Greenland and explored the eastern Canadian coast. At that event they signed the Nuuk Declaration. Western observers often regarded these tales as generally not entirely accurate historical accounts, but more as self-serving myths. The angakkuq of a community of Inuit was not the leader, but rather a sort of healer and psychotherapist, who tended wounds and offered advice, as well as invoking the spirits to assist people in their lives. [12][2] In Canada, sections 25 and 35 of the Constitution Act of 1982 classify Inuit as a distinctive group of Aboriginal Canadians who are not included under either the First Nations or the Métis.[13]. In both Canada, the United States and Denmark, the term "Eskimo" was once commonly used to describe Inuit and Siberia and Alaska's Yupik, Iñupiat, and Chukchi[citation needed] peoples. South of Nunatsiavut, the descendants of the southern Labrador Inuit in NunatuKavut continued their traditional transhumant semi-nomadic way of life until the mid-1900s. [145], While Inuit Nunangat is within Canada, and the Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami oversees only the four official regions, there remains NunatuKavut in southern Labrador.