Dr. Bill Streever describes a boat made by the native Inupiat people in Barrow, Alaska: " It is a skin boat, an umiaq, built from the stitched hides of bearded seals and used to hunt bowhead whales in the open-water leads during spring ...

Inupiat people | Inupiat family, Noatak, Alaska, 1930

There has been some movement to use Inuit, and the Inuit Circumpolar Council, representing a circumpolar population of 150, 000 Inuit and Yupik people of Greenland, Canada, Alaska, and Siberia, in its charter defines Inuit for use within the ICC as including " the Inupiat, Yupik ( Alaska ), Inuit, Inuvialuit ( Canada ), Kalaallit ( Greenland ) and Yupik ( Russia ).

" However, even the Inuit people in Alaska refer to themselves as Inupiat ( the language is Inupiaq ) and do not typically use the term Inuit.

Thus, in Alaska, Eskimo is in common usage, and is the preferred term when speaking collectively of all Inupiat and Yupik people, or of all Inuit and Yupik people throughout the world.

There is archaeological evidence that Inupiat people have lived at Kotzebue since at least the 15th century.

* North Alaska Coast Inupiat ( Tareumiut, people of the sea )

Inupiat people have grown more concerned in recent years that climate change is threatening their traditional lifestyle.

The Inuvialuit of Aklavik are primarily Uummarmiut and are descendants of the Nunatamiut, Inupiat people who migrated from Alaska in the early 20th century.

** Inupiat ( an Inuit people )

Common spiritual foes of the Gwich ’ in shaman in ancient times, and who were considered to be especially powerful as spiritual people, were the Inupiat of the Kobuk river valley, and the Cree Indians of Canada.

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The Eskimo kissing ( puvipsuk ) of Inupiat people | Inupiat in the Nalukataq, Alaska

The College serves the North Slope Borough and the Inupiat people, and is dedicated to strengthening Inupiat culture, language, values and traditions.

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Many Alaska Natives, particularly Inupiat Eskimo people, participated in commercial whaling.

Category: Inupiat people

In the 2012 meeting of International Whaling Commission, the delegates renewed the annual quota of whales for all three groups who submitted joint bids: Alaskan Inupiat, Russian indigenous people in Chukotka in eastern Siberia, and St Vincent and the Grenadines, despite protestations of delegates from Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Chile, and Costa Rica.

Eskimos ( or Esquimaux ) or Inuit – Yupik ( for Alaska: Inupiat – Yupik ) peoples are indigenous peoples who have traditionally inhabited the circumpolar region from eastern Siberia ( Russia ), across Alaska ( United States ), Canada, and Greenland.

In Alaska the term Eskimo is commonly used, because it includes both Yupik and Inupiat, while Inuit is not accepted as a collective term or even specifically used for Inupiat ( who technically are Inuit ).

Seward Peninsula dialects in Western Alaska, where much of the Inupiat culture has only been in place for perhaps less than 500 years, are greatly affected by phonological influence from the Yupik languages.

The native persons of the village are Inupiat Eskimo.

The speakers are known as Inupiat.

Today, early Alaskans are divided into several main groups: the Southeastern Coastal Indians ( the Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian ), the Athabascans, the Aleut, and the two groups of Eskimos, the Inupiat and the Yup ' ik.

Today, early Alaskans are divided into several main groups: the Southeastern Coastal Native Americans ( the Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian ), the Athabascans, the Aleut, and the two groups of Eskimos, Inupiat and Yup ' ik.

The map of the Inuit Circumpolar Council Eskimo peoples: * Yupik peoples ( Yupik, Siberian Yupik )* Inuit ( Inupiat, Inuvialuit, Nunavut, Nunavik, Nunatsiavut, Kalaallit )</ font >

The Inuit refer to the animal as nanook ( transliterated as nanuq in the Inupiat language ).

Until the late nineteenth century Barter Island was a major trade center for the Inupiat and was especially important as a bartering place for Inupiat from Alaska and Inuit from Canada.

An inuksuk ( plural inuksuit ) ( from the Inuktitut: ᐃᓄᒃᓱᒃ, plural ᐃᓄᒃᓱᐃᑦ ; alternatively inukshuk in English or inukhuk in Inuinnaqtun ) is a stone landmark or cairn built by humans, used by the Inuit, Inupiat, Kalaallit, Yupik, and other peoples of the Arctic region of North America.

The Inuit peoples include the Inupiat of the North Slope and Seward Peninsula in Alaska ( part of USA ), the Inuit of Canada ( in Yukon, North-West Territory, Nunavut, Quebec, Newfoundland and Labrador ), and the Kalaallit of Greenland ( part of Denmark ).

The Inupiat language, also known as Inupiatun, Inupiaq, Iñupiaq, Inyupiaq, Inyupiat, Inyupeat, Inyupik, and Inupik, is a group of dialects of the Inuit language, spoken in northern and northwestern Alaska.

Her heritage is Inupiat Inuit and Métis.

Noorvik ( Nuurvik in Iñupiaq ) is a primarily Inupiat city in the Northwest Arctic Borough in the U. S. state of Alaska.

On the northern edge of the refuge is the Inupiat village of Kaktovik ( population 258 ) and on the southern boundary the Gwich ' in settlement of Arctic Village ( population 152 ).

At the Inupiat Eskimo village of Umiat it turns north to flow across the Arctic plain, entering the western Beaufort Sea in a broad delta near Nuiqsut, approximately 120 mi ( 190 km ) west of Prudhoe Bay.

Ilisagvik College is sanctioned by the Inupiat Community of the Arctic Slope ( ICAS ) tribal government.

In 1981, Wilson relocated to Barrow, Alaska, an Inupiat village on the edge of the Arctic Ocean, where he served as the assistant to the Eskimo mayor and wrote about life in the Arctic for Alaskan newspapers, including the Tundra Times, Northland News and Fairbanks Daily News-Miner.

He also published a popular account of the one year ( 1913 to 1914 ) he spent among the Inupiat of Northern Alaska, " Dawn in Arctic Alaska " ( published 1957 and 1985 ).

The enabling legislation also established a legislative connection with the Inupiat Heritage Center in Barrow, Alaska, to commemorate the more than 2, 000 whaling voyages from New Bedford to the Western Arctic.

Although the usage of the umiak and the kayak has died out in most areas of the Arctic it is still very much a part of life in the Yupik and Inupiat whaling villages of Alaska.

* Interior North Inupiat.

* esi is the ISO 639-3 code for the North Alaskan Inupiat language