| As Canadian Inuit, we are the most recent generation of
this 5,000 year cultural heritage that has sustained itself within a vast Arctic territory stretching from the eastern coast of present day Russia, across Alaska, and Canada to the east coast of Greenland.
We are often called "Eskimos" by non-Inuit. However, this is a term we never used. We call ourselves Inuit which means The People.
Our territory stretches about 2,800 kilometers from west to east and has four time zones. South to north, it extends
roughly from the tree line north about 3,000 kilometers. These general boundaries enclose approximately 6,000,000 square kilometers of land and offshore territory.
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