Inuvialuit Nunangat
Inuvialuit Nunangat is our Inuvialuit homeland in what is now the Canadian Western Arctic. Countless generations of our ancestors have left their traces across the region. As Inuvialuit, we feel a deep responsibility to look after the lands and waters, plants and animals of Inuvialuit Nunangat, so that we all grow and flourish. Our lands span all of the Inuvialuit Settlement Region—the mountains and valleys, tundra and pingos, permafrost and boreal forest. Our waters include Nunaryuam Qaangani Tariuq (Arctic Ocean or ‘ocean at the top of the world’), Kuukpak (Mackenzie River) and other rivers, countless lakes and streams, and the snow, rain and fog in the sky. These are the places we travel and camp, hunt and pick and fish, visit and rest, watch the weather, think and reflect, love and laugh, spend time with our families. Our responsibility is to keep these places clean, to live well and in harmony, to care for and protect what is ours. Our people, our lands, and our past, present and future are all deeply interconnected.
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Inuvialuit Nunangat
Inupiat Nunangat Uvagut nunakput pangma atchiqhurarigaat Nunaaqikpangmi Ualinirmiut. Inugiaktuaut inuuniarnikting hivuliipta unitchimarut ikaaqqaaqlugu nunakput. Uvagut Inupiat, una ihumagipirikput piyaqualatchiligikput munariviurarikput nunakput immaqput,nauruat nirutit Inupiat nunangat, nautqiquvlugu pinarnaqhilugu. Nunakput angiruq Inupiat nunangat inaurangit - irit illutait, iniqpak pingut, qiqitchimaruaq nuna ukuatlu namaaqtulgit uumamaq. Immaqput ukuat ilagigait Nunauram qangani (Tariuq qangani nunaaqhiqpaum qangani) Kuukpak (Ualinirmiut kuungat) atlallu kuungit, kihinanaitchut narvangit inugiaktut maqraluit Apun hialuk taktu qilangmi. Matkua iglauvivut nulaarvivullu, anguniarvivut ahianiarvivut iqalungniarvivulu, pulaaqhuta yaraiqihutalu, ilitchuriniaqlugu hila qanuittilaanga, ihumauraaqhuta, piqpakutivluta igalqhuta, uvagut qitunarariit atautchimiitqatigiikluta. Unitchilaitchugut huaqluit igittaqlugi halumailamik unitchilaichugut nulaarviptingni, Inuuniarniq iluatun munarihuugikput pimarikhaqlugu, munaqriraqtugut hulinauraptingnik. Inuvut, nunakput, inuuniarnikput inilaraan. Pangma hivuniqput munariviuraruuugikput iluatun atihivlugik.
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Inuvialuit Nunangat
Ami Inuuniarvigivaktaqput qangma atiyuakkirnigaat Kanatami Ualliq Tunganin. Sivullipta inuuniarvigivangnigaat taimani. Inuuniarviit takunaqtut suli maani iniptingni. Uvagut inuvialuugapta, munariniarivut nunamlu imaklu, nautchiat, niryutivutlu, nakuuyuakun inuguqubluta. Nunakput angiyuk-iryit suli imingniritlu, natirnaq suli pinguksaryuitlu, qiqumanik nunam iluani napaaqtutlu. Tamapta Inuit inuuniarviat Tariuqpait Nunam Qaangani Ittuq, Kuukpak allat kuukkatlu, inugiaktutlu tatchitlu, kuukkiniritlu, apun, silaluk, taktuklu qilaptingni. Taapkuat innit aulavakkivut, tanmaarvigiblugitlu, anguniaqtluta, pukuktluta asianik, iqalungniariblugitlu, itiriaqtuqtluta yaraiqsiqtlutalu, sila takunnaktlugu, isumaliuqtluta itqaumalutalu, piqpakutigiiktluta iglaqtlutalu, nayurvigiblugitlu ilavut. Initlu salumaiqtailiblugit, nakuuyuakkun inuuniaqatigiiktluta, munariniaqtlugit pivut. Inuvut, nunakput, ingilraani, qangma sivunikputlu katimagiiktut atautchikkuarlutik.
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Inuvialuit Nunangat
Ukiuqtaqtumi. Amigaittut ukiut hivullipta tumitik qimakhimayait hamani nunaptingni. Inuvialuugapta ikpigiyaqput akhut munarinahuaqhugu nunakputlu imavullu, nauttiavullu taimaalu anngutit hamani Inuvialuit nunanganni, taimaatun amigaiqpallialuta hivumuuttiarumaplutalu. Nunakput tikiumayuq tamainnut Inuvialuit Nunalaanginnut nunaptingni kingingniryuanit naqhainnut maniqqainnilu pinguatikkallu, nunaup puvitquumayainnit napaaqtuqarnainnit. Tariuryuaqqut tahamani ittuq nunaryuaq qaangani tariuq, kuukpaglu aallallu kuukkat, amigaittut tahiit kuugannuallu, taimaalu aput, nipaluklu taktuglu qilaptingni. Hapkuat iniit aullaaqpaktavut tangmaarvigiblugit, angunirvigiblugitlu iqalukhiurvigiblugitlu, pulaaqqattautiblutik unaguirhiqhutiglu, hila tautukhugu, ihumaliuqhutik qanuriliurniarutikhamiklu, piqpakkuutiblugik iglaqatigiikhutiklu, ilavutlu inuuqatigiblugit. Munariyakhavut ilihimagapta hapkuat iniit halumayakhavut, inuuniarvigittuarlugit nakuuyukkut inuqarnirmi, munarittiarumablugu hapimmiyumablugu uvagut pigiyaptigu. Inuutivutlu nunakputlu, hivullipta ublumimun kingulliptingnun akhut aktuumammata.
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Follow in our footprints to learn how we have lived on these lands for generations and how we are carrying our traditions into the future. By clicking on the dots, you can visit the important places of our peoples, past and present. The map shows where we live as Inuvialuit, our relationships to the places where our homes, camps, traditional sites and ancestors are, and where our deep histories and our children’s futures lie. Many of our ancestors’ belongings have been taken away from our homelands by generations of collectors and archaeologists. This interactive map is a step towards bringing them back into relationship with our lands and communities.
As described in these pages, Inuvialuit belongings (“artifacts”) have been taken from our lands to form museum collections in distant places. Our people have been re-forging relationships to these collections, researching and visiting with them, and correcting outsiders’ views and interpretations of our culture. In time, we intend to bring some of these belongings home to Inuvialuit Nunangat. Here, we provide digital snapshots of several collections and the community members who have spent time with them, showcasing and supporting renewed connections between our peoples and our ancestors’ belongings.
Cadzow Collection (1917)
National Museum of the American Indian
Washington, DC
Collinson Collection (1851–1853)
British Museum
London, England
MacFarlane Collection (1860s)
Smithsonian Institution
Washington, DC
Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre (3500 years ago – present)
Yellowknife, NWT
