The boat's crew disobeyed, however, and were apparently taken captive by the Inuit.

Iron is usually found as iron ore on Earth, except for one deposit of native iron in Greenland, which was used by the Inuit people.

Thus, speakers of two adjacent Inuit dialects would usually be able to understand one another, but speakers from dialects distant from each other on the dialect continuum would have difficulty understanding one another.

Although the grammatical structures of Yupik and Inuit languages are similar, they have pronounced differences phonologically, and differences of vocabulary between Inuit and any of one of the Yupik languages is greater than between any two Yupik languages.

While grammatical structures of Yupik and Inuit languages are similar, they have pronounced differences phonologically and differences of vocabulary between Inuit and any of one of the Yupik languages is greater than between any two Yupik languages.

The traditional language of the Inuit is a system of closely interrelated dialects that are not readily comprehensible from one end of the Inuit world to the other, and some people do not think of it as a single language but rather as a group of languages.

In Canada, the word Inuktitut is routinely used to refer to all Canadian variants of the Inuit traditional language, and it is under that name that it is recognised as one of the official languages of Nunavut and the Northwest Territories.

The phrase " Inuit language " is largely limited to professional discourse, since in each area, there is one or more conventional terms that cover all the local variants ; or it is used as a descriptive term in publications where readers can't necessarily be expected to know the locally used words.

Flaherty was determined to make a new film, one following a life of a typical Inuit and his family.

Josephie was one of the Inuit who were relocated in the 1950s to very difficult living conditions in Resolute and Grise Fiord, in the extreme North ( see High Arctic relocation ).

The idea of incentive conservation is a modern one but its practice has clearly defended some of the sub Arctic wildernesses and the wildlife in those regions for thousands of years, especially by indigenous peoples such as the Evenk, Yakut, Sami, Inuit and Cree.

The Royal Canadian Mint's $ 20 silver coin, launched on July 18, 2007 has evoked one of the darkest moments in the history of polar exploration and rankled Canada's main Inuit organization.

On one side of the coin is the customary portrait of Queen Elizabeth ; on the other, 16th-century British explorer Martin Frobisher and a compass rose from his era, along with images of the ship he sailed in search of the fabled Northwest Passage and an Inuit man paddling his kayak in ice-choked waters.

In Inuit mythology, Kadlu refers to one of the trinity of sisters, the 3 goddesses creating thundery weather.

In Inuit mythology, Arnakuagsak (" old woman from the sea ") was an Inuit goddess, one of the primary deities of the religion, who was responsible for ensuring the hunters were able to catch enough food and that the people remained healthy and strong.

In Inuit mythology, Igaluk is one of the most powerful gods of the pantheon.

In Inuit mythology, Tekkeitsertok is a god of hunting and the master of caribou, one of the most important hunting gods in the pantheon.

In Inuit mythology, Pinga (" the one who is up on high ") was a goddess of the hunt, fertility and medicine.

According to the interpretations of anthropologists, Silla is one of the oldest Inuit deities, but was recently ( in the last thousand years ) supplanted by Sedna, ( the goddess of sea mammals ) and the Caribou Mother ( the goddess of caribou ) when these became the major food sources of the Inuit.

He went on his first expedition in 1902 – 1904, known as The Danish Literary Expedition, with Jørgen Brønlund, Harald Moltke and Ludvig Mylius-Erichsen, to examine Inuit culture.

This transition is supported by archaeological records and Inuit mythology that tells of having driven off the Tuniit or ' first inhabitants '.

Finding no Norse survivors, he started a mission among the Inuit and baptized the first child converts in 1724.

Three Moravian missionaries under Matthias Stach arrived in 1733 and began the first of a series of mission stations at Neu-Herrnhut ( which later developed into the modern capital Nuuk ), but a returning Inuit child brought smallpox from Denmark and a large proportion of the native population died over the next few years.

The first backscratchers were used by the Inuit and were carved from whale teeth.

The word " Naskapi " ( meaning " people beyond the horizon ") first made an appearance in the 17th century and was subsequently applied to Innu groups beyond the reach of missionary influence, most notably those living in the lands which bordered Ungava Bay and the northern Labrador coast, near the Inuit communities of northern Quebec and northern Labrador.

Either the tradition dates back to when the Inuit first made contact with Europeans ( which they consider highly unlikely ), or, more likely, it is the adaptation of an already existing tradition, modified to account for the coming of the Europeans.

In February, the first Inuit died and shortly after that two more followed.

In 1959, local Inuit established, on their own initiative, the first co-operative in Northern Quebec for the purpose of marketing Arctic char.

* Reverend Simon Gibbons-Canada's first Inuit priest

Collectively, First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples constitute Aboriginal peoples in Canada, Indigenous peoples of the Americas or first peoples.

In addition, it states that the National Assembly of Quebec recognizes " the right of the Amerinds and the Inuit of Quebec, the first inhabitants of this land, to preserve and develop their original language and culture ".

* April 12 – Atanarjuat, first movie in Inuktitut, the language of the Inuit people.

That claim, the largest in Canadian history, was signed in 1993 after decades of negotiations between Canada and the Inuit of Nunavut and would lead to the creation of Nunavut that he was to lead through its first decade.

Nunavut developed enhanced training for teachers, created a Nunavut program for registered nurses and supported the very successful Akitsiraq Law School, built Nunavut's first trades school in Rankin Inlet, put in place the process and approvals for a Nunavut Cultural School slated for Clyde River, improved levels of post-secondary student financial assistance, and funded Inuit and Inuktitut / Inuinnaqtun curriculum development.

Long overdue health facilities were constructed in the regional centres of Iqaluit, Rankin Inlet and Cambridge Bay, infant and child inoculation rates were expanded, more physicians took up residence in the territory, the first Inuit certified midwives graduated and a series of elder-care facilities were planned and constructed.

In the first ten years of Nunavut, Inuit employment rates far exceeded those in the former Northwest Territories and showed stead improvement since 1999 ; however, these rates were still highest in the lowest education and pay categories, skilled positions remained unfilled in many communities, and the classic issues around minority employment efforts became part of the Nunavut public agenda.

The mine was the first case of Inuit miners in Canada.

Of Inuit and Ukrainian descent, he is both the first Inuk player and the first player to grow up in Nunavut to participate in an NHL game.

He became the first player of Inuit descent to play in a regular season NHL game when he suited up against the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim on Opening Night October 9, 2003.

He was also the first person of Inuit descent to be drafted by an NHL team.

500 CE – 1000 CE, successively sweep Arctic North America while having little genetic impact on Native American populations further South, that presumably have origins that date back to the initial colonization of the Americas by modern humans from Asia ( who are the first hominins to live there ), and ancient DNA shows genetic continuity from the Thule to modern Inuit ( whose genetics are remarkably homogeneous ), dominated by the A2a, A2b, and D3 mtDNA haplotypes, while " Haplotype D2 ( 3 %), found among modern Aleut and Siberian Eskimos, was identified at a low frequency in the modern samples but not the ancient.

Saint Peter's and Saint John's Anglican Church -- constructed in 1883 -- is a notable as an example of the Cambridge Camden Society's neo-gothic style, and for being constructed by Reverend Simon Gibbons, Canada's first Inuit priest.