Circumpolar peoples
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Circumpolar peoples and Arctic peoples are umbrella terms for the various Indigenous peoples living around the North Pole.
Chukchi, one of many Indigenous peoples of Siberia. Representation of a Chukchi family by Louis Choris (1816)
A group of igloos forming an Inuit village, 1824, by George Francis Lyon
Sami people in Norway, c. 1900, painted by Wilhelm Peters
Russia's Arctic coastline from the White Sea to the Bering Strait had been explored and settled by Pomors, Russian settlers from Novgorod.
Kalaallit
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Kalaallit are an ethnographic group, being the largest such group in Greenland, and are concentrated in the west. It is also a contemporary term in the Greenlandic language for the Greenlandic Inuit o
Bishop Sofie Petersen, first Inuk Lutheran bishop
