Archaeological sites at ancient Inuvialuit villages near the mouth of the Mackenzie River provide glimpses at how ancestral Sallirmiut Inuvialuit arose from the original Thule culture, and adapted to and thrived in their new homeland.

Inuvialuit Enrolment Package. Enrolment is the process to be recognized as a beneficiary of the Inuvialuit Trust established under the Inuvialuit Final Agreement (IFA).

Inuvialuit means “the real people” and it is believed that the population descended from the Thule people, who once lived in the Arctic. They migrated from the Bering Sea region and settled on the edge of the Beaufort Sea, at the mouth of the Mackenzie River, some 800 years ago.

In the IFA, Inuvialuit agreed to give up their exclusive use of their ancestral lands in exchange for certain other guaranteed rights from the Government of Canada. The rights came in three forms: land, wildlife management and money.

The ISR consists of both Inuvialuit private lands and Territorial lands spanning several subregions, such as the Beaufort Sea, the Mackenzie River delta, the Yukon North Slope and the western Canadian Arctic islands.

These recordings will ensure that the Inuvialuit of today, and those of future generations, will remember and draw upon their culture, traditions and language. You can read a selection of these oral stories below.

A full set of traditional Inuvialuit clothing consisted of an inner parka (ilulliq) with the hair on the inside, an outer parka (qusunngaq) with the hair on the outside, calf-length breeches …

Taimani, which means ‘At That Time’, presents a timeline of the history of the Inuvialuit, and was designed for use in schools as a reference and a guide to facilitate the development of …

The Inuvialuit belong to three linguistic groups. Collectively the three dialects they speak are known as the Inuvialuktun language: Uummarmiutun meaning the language of the “people of the evergreens and willows” is spoken in the tree-lined inland communities of Aklavik and Inuvik.

Environmental knowledge and survival skills continue to be important elements of modern Inuvialuit culture. Importantly, part of the local diet is from the harvesting of local fish and …