Kivallirmiut

Kivallirmiut
Total population
3,000
Regions with significant populations
Nunavut
Languages
Inuktitut[citation needed]
Religion
Christianity, Inuit religion
Related ethnic groups
Copper Inuit

Kivallirmiut, also called the Caribou Inuit (Inuktitut: Kivallirmiut/ᑭᕙᓪᓕᕐᒥᐅᑦ), barren-ground caribou hunters, are Inuit who live west of Hudson Bay in Kivalliq Region, Nunavut, between 61° and 65° N and 90° and 102° W in Northern Canada.

The Danish Fifth Thule Expedition of 1921–1924 led by Knud Rasmussen called them the Caribou Eskimo.[1][2] Kivallirmiut are the southernmost subgroup of the Central Inuit.[3][4]

Approximate location of Kivallirmiut bands at the end of the 19th century
  1. ^ "Caribou Inuit". Countries and Their Cultures. everyculture.com. Retrieved 27 December 2007.
  2. ^ Arima, Eugene (1 January 1994). "Caribou and Iglulik Inuit Kayaks". Arctic. 47 (2). doi:10.14430/ARCTIC1289. ISSN 0004-0843. Wikidata Q57481536.
  3. ^ Cummins, Bryan (2004). Faces of the North: the Ethnographic Photography of John Honigmann. Toronto: Natural Heritage/Natural History. pp. 149–151. ISBN 1-896219-79-9.
  4. ^ Issenman, Betty Kobayashi (1997). Sinews of survival: the living legacy of Inuit clothing. Vancouver: UBC Press. pp. 136–142. ISBN 978-0-7748-4189-4.