INUIT IDENTITY IN THE CANADIAN ARCTIC

• Main Author: Edmund (Ned) Searles
• Other Authors: College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Washington, the US-Canadian Fulbright Exchange Program, the Canadian Embassy, the Faculté des Sciences Sociales at Université Laval, and the National Science Foundation’s Division of International Fellows
• Language: English
• Published: University Library System, University of Pittsburgh 2010
• Subjects: Ethnic identity; Nunavut Inuit; Canadian Arctic; Arctic; Nunavut; Qallunaat; inuit; inuktitut
• Online Access: http://ethnology.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/Ethnology/article/view/6038

Contemporary Nunavut Inuit perceive their identity to be a combination of inherited substances as well as knowledge, skills, and values that one must learn in order to be considered authentically Inuit. Inuit understand the latter part of their identity as examples of inuktitut, which is learning ho...