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According to the Qikiqtani Truth Commission, in 2013, 1,549 people—92% of them Inuit—lived in Pond Inlet. [33]: 9 Pond Inlet's population in 1976 was 504 people, and within a 400 km (250 mi) radius, of what was to become the Mary River Mine, there were 2,209 people. By the 2021 census there were 6,670 people in the same area.
Bathurst Inlet (Kingoak) Cambridge Bay (Iqaluktuuttiaq) Chesterfield Inlet (Igluligaarjuk, ᐃᒡᓗᓕᒑᕐᔪᒃ) Clyde River (Kangiqtugaapik, ᑲᖏᖅᑐᒑᐱᒃ) Coral Harbour (Salliit, ᓴᓪᓖᑦ) Gjoa Haven (Uqsuqtuuq, ᐅᖅᓱᖅᑑᖅ) Grise Fiord (Aujuittuq, ᐊᐅᔪᐃᑦᑐᖅ) Igloolik (Iglulik, ᐃᒡᓗᓕᒃ)
[4] [5] When the High Arctic relocation occurred in 1959, Idlout helped Inuit families adjust to their new surroundings in Resolute, Northwest Territories (now Nunavut). In 1954, due to the lack of foxes in the Pond Inlet area, Idlout requested that he move to Resolute. The government was not supportive of the move but finally relented and ...
Martin Frobisher's 1576 expedition to find the Northwest Passage landed on and around Baffin Island, in today's Qikiqtaaluk Region (Inuktitut syllabics: ᕿᑭᖅᑖᓗᒃ ), where three Inuit, a man called Calichough , an unrelated Inuk woman, Egnock , and her child, Nutioc (Nuttaaq), were kidnapped and brought to the Europe, where they all died.
On September 9, 2010, Bear Grylls and a team of five completed a point-to-point navigation between Pond Inlet and Tuktoyaktuk in the Northwest Territories on a rigid inflatable boat (RIB). The expedition drew attention to how the effects of global warming made this journey possible and raised funds for the Global Angels charity. [83] [84]
The Amitturmiut frequently travelled to the area around Pond Inlet. [2] They are "bound to the sea, land, and ice of the region, and to each other, through hunting, language, cultural activities, kinship, and environmental understanding." [2]: 11–12
The North Water is home to the northernmost self-sufficient human settlements in the world, and borders three Qikiqtani Inuit communities in Canada: Arctic Bay, Pond Inlet and Grise Fiord. These Inuit communities in Canada (Nunavut), along with the Inuit of Greenland (Avannaata) rely on the abundance of marine life in North Water for their food ...
Inuit navigators understood the concept of maps and could construct a relief map from sand, sticks, and pebbles to give directions to others. [6] Maps were also drawn on skins using plant dyes. [6] For example, the bark of the alder tree provided a red-brown shade, and spruce produced red, [11] and berries, lichen, moss and algae also provided ...