ABSTRACT
Many Indigenous groups populate the Arctic regions: Yup’it, Inupiat and Dene in Alaska, Siberian groups in Russia, Athabaskan and Inuit in Canada, Kalaallit in Greenland, Sami in Northern Scandinavia, to name a few. In this paper based on long-term research with my colleague Jarich Oosten, I will focus on the Inuit groups from Northern Canada where a wide variety of subgroups can also be distinguished. Nevertheless, I’ll make a few references to other Arctic Indigenous groups, especially Yup’it and Cree, when connections can be made, or in order to discuss some theoretical points.
