Iñupiat
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The Iñupiat, also known as Alaskan Inuit, are a group of Alaska Natives whose traditional territory roughly spans northeast from Norton Sound on the Bering Sea to the northernmost part of the Canada–U
Iñupiaq woman sharing a kunik with a small child at a Nalukataq in Utqiaġvik, Alaska, 2007
Semi-underground men's community house (Qargi) with bowhead whale bones, Point Hope, Alaska, 1885
Iñupiaq high-kickball, ca. 1910, Utqiaġvik, Alaska, collection of the NMAI
An Inupiat family from Noatak, Alaska, 1929, photograph by Edward S. Curtis
Iñupiaq language
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Iñupiaq or Inupiaq, also known as Iñupiat, Inupiat, Iñupiatun or Alaskan Inuit, is an Inuit language, or perhaps group of languages, spoken by the Iñupiat people in northern and northwestern Alaska, a
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…Iñupiaq). In English, both Iñupiat and Iñupiaq are used as modifiers (e.g., An Inupiat/Iñupiaq librarian, Inupiat/Iñupiaq songs). The language is called Iñupiatun in Iñupiatun and frequently in English as well. Iñupiak (IPA: ) is the dual form. The roots are iñuk "person" and -piaq "real", i.e., an endonym meaning…
Iñupiaq Dialects