Iñupiat
The Iñupiat (or Iñupiaq) are a group of Indigenous Alaskans whose traditional territory roughly spans northeast from Norton Sound on the Bering Sea to the northernmost part of the Canada–United States border. Their current communities include 34 villages across Iñupiat Nunaat (Iñupiaq lands), including seven Alaskan villages in the North Slope Borough, affiliated with the Arctic Slope Regional Corporation; eleven villages in Northwest Arctic Borough; and sixteen villages affiliated with the Bering Straits Regional Corporation. They often claim to be the first people of the Kauwerak.
Iñupiat woman sharing a kunik with a small child at a Nalukataq in Utqiaġvik, Alaska, 2007 | |
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| 20,709 (2015) | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| North and northwest Alaska (United States) | |
| Languages | |
| English, Inupiaq | |
| Religion | |
| Christianity, Animism | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Inuit, Yupik |
| Iñu- / nuna "person" / "land" | |
|---|---|
| Person | Iñupiaq Dual: Iñupiak |
| People | Iñupiat |
| Language | Iñupiatun Urraaraq |
| Country | Iñupiat Nunaat |
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