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Utkuhiksalingmiut


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  • Variants

    • Ukusiksalirmiut
    • Utkuhigjalingmiut
    • Utkuhigjalingmiut (Eskimo people)
    • Utkuhigjalingmiut Eskimos
    • Utkuhikalik Inuit
    • Utkuhikhalingmiut
    • Utkusiksalik Inuit
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  • Earlier Established Forms

    • Utkuhigjalingmiut (Eskimo people)
    • Utkuhigjalingmiut Eskimos
  • Sources

    • found: Hodge handbk. Am. Ind.:v. 2 (Ukusiksalirmiut, Utkuhigjalingmiut)
    • found: Murdock world cult.:p. 110.
    • found: Voegelin lang.:p. 133.
    • found: Boas, F. The central Eskimo, [1964]:page 108 (I myself have never seen any nets for fishing, but Klutschak found them in use among the Utkusiksalik tribe)
    • found: Current anthropology, Dec. 1994:page 596 (The Fifth Thule Expedition reported female infanticide as customary among the Netsilik, their inland neighbors the Utkuhikalik, and various subdivisions of the so-called Caribou Inuit) page 614 (Utkuhikalik (Utkuhikalingmiut); data collected by Rasmussen (1931) at the same time as his census of the neighboring Netsilik, to whom the Utkuhikalik are closely related. While an argument could be made for combining these two groups into a single population, the inland orientation of Utkuhikalik seems to have made them culturally and demographically distinct from the Netsilik, and they have been so treated by Schrire and Steiger (1974))
    • found: Nunatsiaq news, 15 January 2016, online, viewed 14 July 2022New dictionary documents rare Inuit dialect (the Utkuhiksalingmiut are a group of Inuit who once lived in an area of the central Arctic, along the northern border that divides today's Kivalliq and Kitikmeot regions of Nunavut around the Back River, but over the past half century many of the Utkuhiksalingmiut who camped along the Back River had settled in either Gjoa Haven or Baker Lake; speak the Utkuhiksalik dialect)
    • notfound: Canadian Oxford dictionary, 2004;The Canadian encyclopedia, online, viewed 14 July 2022;Canadian subject headings, online, viewed 14 July 2022
  • History Notes

    • [Heading changed from Utkuhiksalingmiut Eskimos to Utkuhiksalingmiut in November 2022.]
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  • Change Notes

    • 1986-02-11: new
    • 2022-11-30: revised
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