Inuit

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Inuit (singular: Inuk) are a group of culturally and historically similar Indigenous peoples traditionally inhabiting the Arctic and Subarctic regions of North America and Russia, including Greenland, Labrador, Quebec, Nunavut, the Northwest Territories, Yukon (traditionally), Alaska and the Chukotsky District of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug. The Inuit languages are part of the Eskaleut languages, also known as Inuit-Yupik-Unangan and as Eskimo–Aleut. Canadian Inuit live throughout much of Northern Canada. The territory of Nunavut is most associated with their culture and history, while significant populations also inhabit Nunavik in the northern third of Quebec, Nunatsiavut in Labrador, and in the Northwest Territories and Yukon, particularly around the Arctic Ocean in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region (ISR). These areas are known, by Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami and the Government of Canada, as Inuit Nunangat. 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. Greenlandic Inuit, also known as Kalaallit, are descendants of Thule migrations from Canada by 1100 CE. Although Greenland withdrew from the European Communities in 1985, Inuit of Greenland are Danish citizens and, as such, remain citizens of the European Union. In the United States, the Alaskan Iñupiat are traditionally located in the Northwest Arctic Borough, on the Alaska North Slope, the Bering Strait and on Little Diomede Island. In Russia, a few pockets of diaspora communities of Russian Iñupiat from Big Diomede Island, of which inhabitants were removed to the Russian mainland, remain in the Bering Strait coast of the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, particularly in Uelen, Lavrentiya, and Lorino. Many individuals who would have historically been referred to as Eskimo find that term offensive or forced upon them in a colonial way; Inuit is now a common autonym for a large sub-group

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