AbstractInuit are the Aboriginal people of Arctic Canada. The
word “Inuit” means “the people” in Inuktitut, the Inuit
language, and is the term by which Inuit refer to themselves. The Inuit population
is almost entirely situated north of the 50th parallel.
For the first time in 1996, Statistics Canada asked a question about Aboriginal
identity, whereas in previous censuses the figures on Aboriginal peoples were
derived mainly from a question about ancestry.
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