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East-Greenland | Inuit | 2009
Population: 150,000
Language group: Eskimo-Aleut Family, Inuit Branch
Region: Greenland, Canada, United States (Alaska), Russia (Chukotka)
Inuit means “people”. At the end of the last ice age, some 12,000 to 15,000 years ago, hunting tribes crossed via the Bering land bridge from Siberia to the North American continent. In various waves of migration, these tribes have spread over all of Alaska, Canada and Greenland.
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