Inuit are the descendants of what anthropologists call the Thule people, who emerged from the Bering Strait and western Alaska around 1000 CE. They had split from the related Aleut group about 4000 years ago and fro… See more

The term Eskimo is still used by people; however in the 21st century, usage in North America has declined.
In the United States the term Eskimo was, as of 2016, commonly used to describe Inuit and th… See more

Inuit speak Inupiaq (Inupiatun), Inuinnaqtun, Inuktitut, Inuvialuktun, and Greenlandic languages, which belong to the Inuit-Inupiaq branch of the Inuit-Yupik-Unangan language family.
Inupiaq (In… See more

The environment in which Inuit lived inspired a mythology filled with adventure tales of whale and walrus hunts. Long winter months of waiting for caribou herds or sitting near breathing holes hunting seals gave birth t… See more

In total, there are about 148,000 Inuit living in four countries, Canada, Greenland, Denmark and the United States.
As of the 2016 Canadian census , there were 65,025 people identifying as Inuit living in Ca… See more