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The Inuit are descended from the Thule people, who settled Greenland in between AD 1200 and 1400. As 84 percent of Greenland's land mass is covered by the Greenland ice sheet, Inuit people live in three regions: Polar, Eastern, and Western. In the 1850s, additional Canadian Inuit joined the Polar Inuit communities.
Kuupik Kleist, prime minister of Greenland Henrik and Malene Lund, 1911. This is a partial list of Greenlandic Inuit. The Arctic and subarctic dwelling Inuit (formerly referred to as Eskimo) are a group of culturally similar indigenous peoples. Arnarsaq, translator, interpreter and missionary
Greenlanders (Greenlandic: Kalaallit), also called Greenlandics or Greenlandic people, [11] are an Inuit ethnic group native to Greenland. They speak Greenlandic , an Eskaleut language . Greenland is an autonomous territory within the Danish Realm , and its citizens hold Danish nationality .
Skræling (Old Norse and Icelandic: skrælingi, plural skrælingjar) is the name the Norse Greenlanders used for the peoples they encountered in North America (Canada and Greenland). [1] In surviving sources, it is first applied to the Thule people , the proto- Inuit group with whom the Norse coexisted in Greenland after about the 13th century.
Probably adapted from the name Skræling, [5] Kalaallit historically referred specifically to Western Greenlanders. On the other hand, Northern and Eastern Greenlanders call themselves Inughuit and Tunumiit, respectively. About 80% to 88% of Greenland's population, or approximately 44,000 to 50,000 people identify as being Inuit. [6] [7]
The majority of Greenlanders are Inuit, an indigenous people who also live in Alaska and Canada. Greenlandic, the language they speak, is vastly different from Danish.
Aqqaluk Lynge (born 1947), former president of the Inuit Circumpolar Council; Jonathan Motzfeldt (1938–2010), first prime minister; Josef Motzfeldt (born 1941), politician, Minister for Finance and Foreign Affairs; Asii Chemnitz Narup (born 1954), politician and MP for Inuit Ataqatigiit; Lena Pedersen (born 1940), Canadian politician and ...
Inuit Odyssey, produced by The Nature of Things and first broadcast 29 June 2009 on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. This is a documentary on the Thule people and their eastward migration across the Arctic to Greenland. The webpage contains a link to view the documentary online here (length: 44:32; may not be viewable online outside of Canada