An Indigenous Group in Canada- Inuit

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An indigenous group in Canada- Inuit
The term indigenous people in Canada applies to indigenous peoples, Métis and Inuit peoples.
These are the founding inhabitants of the nation now Canada. More than 1.6 million Canadian
indigenous people in the 2016 census (Statistics Canada), or 4.9% of the national population,
were classified as indigenous. While the colonial powers have been seriously challenged – and
obsolete in many cases –, the creation of Canada has been influenced and continues to flourish
by Indigenous culture, language and social structures despite the intense adversities.
Section 35 of the Constitution Act, 1982, which enshrines the Indigenous rights, provides for the
protection of all Indigenous people in Canada. The unique political shade and environment
between the Crown and Indigenous people in Canada is also covered by numerous treaties and
other legislation.
The Inuit people
Night — "men" Inuktitut — are aboriginal peoples, most of whom occupy Canada's northern
regions. An Inuit is called an Inuk. The Inuit homeland, the land, water and ice of the Arctic is
known as Inuit Nunangat. It can also be called Inuit Nunangat to be used for land in Alaska and
Greenland inhabited by the Inuit. In 2011, Statistics Canada reported 59,440 people in Canada to
classify themselves as Inuit using data from the National Household Survey, representing about
4.2 per cent of the aboriginal population. Inuit have historically been hunters and collectors who
travel from camp to camp seasonally. Large national troops were loosed into smaller seasonal
groups, or winter camps of around 100 persons (so-called "bands") and summer hunting parties
of less than a dozen individuals. The Arvirtuurmiut in the Boothia Peninsula was called "the
baleen whale-eating people," each band was associated with and named accordingly (Pakseresht
& Sharma, 2010).
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Eight major Inuit ethnic groups are here: Labradormiut (Labrador), Nunavimmiut (Ungava);
Baffin Island, the Iglulingmiut (Iglulik), the Kivallirmiut (Caribou), Netsilingmiut
(Netsilingmiut) and Inuinnait (Copper). Inuvialuktun (the Inuvialuit region of the Northwest
Territories); Inuinnaqtun (West Nunavut); Inuktitut (Eastern Nunavut dialect); Inuktitut
(Nunavik dialect); and Nunatsiaviuttut (Nunatsiavut) are the major dialects in Canada. Inuktitut
is an Inuit language (Couture, Bhiry and Woollett, 2016).
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