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Ahiarmiut


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    • Ahearmiut
    • Ahiarmiut Eskimos
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    • Ahiarmiut Eskimos
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    • found: Work cat.: Csonka, Y. Les Ahiarmiut, 1995.
    • found: Handbook of North Am. Indians, 1984:v. 5, Arctic, p. 447, found under chapter "Caribou Eskimos" (Ahiarmiut, Ahearmiut)
    • found: PREMARC, 4/01/96(Ahearmiut)
    • found: The Canadian encyclopedia, online, viewed 14 July 2022:Kivallirmiut (Caribou Inuit) (today, they number about 3000 and consist of five independent inland groups, including the Ahiarmiut)
    • found: Mowat, F. People of the deer, 1952:page 46 ("The water of the Little Lakes flow into the Innuit Ku not far from its beginnings at Lake Ennadai and for some centuries this little group of lakes has been the center of the inland culture. The People spread up and down Innuit Ku until their camps stood on each lake and river in the rolling land. And it is from the mounded hills which lie about the Little Lakes that this branch of the Innuit took their local name--Ihalmiut--the People of the Little Hills")
    • found: CBC news, 22 January 2019, online, viewed 2 November 2022:'Dark chapter in our history': federal gov't apologizes to Ahiarmiut for forced relocations (seventy years after the federal government forcibly relocated Ahiarmuit away from their homeland, it's apologizing to 21 survivors and their families; the Ahiarmiut lived inland from Hudson's Bay in 1950, when the government decided to move them the first time, with several other relocations occurring in the 10 year period that followed; they were not consulted beforehand, did not get an explanation, and never gave their permission to be moved, and they did not get to bring basic tools to make new shelters or other necessities for survival; elders speak of being treated like outsiders, losing their dialect and having to adapt to new foods and cultural practices; the Ahiarmiut reached a
    • notfound: Web. 3;Encyc. Brit.;Voegelin;Murdock, G. Outline of world cultures, 1983;Canadian Oxford dictionary, 2004;Canadian subject headings, online, viewed 14 July 2022
  • History Notes

    • [Heading changed from Ahiarmiut Eskimos to Ahiarmiut in November 2022.]
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    • 1996-04-05: new
    • 2022-11-30: revised
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