Inughuit

Inughuit
Minik Wallace, an Inughuaq boy, in New York, 1897
Total population
800 (2010)
Regions with significant populations
Greenland
Languages
Inuktitut (Inuktun), Greenlandic, Danish
Religion
Inuit religion, Evangelical Lutheran
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The Inughuit (singular: Inughuaq) or Inuhuit are an ethnic subgroup of the Greenlandic Inuit. They are the northernmost group of Inuit and the northernmost people in North America, living in Greenland. Historically called Arctic Highlanders, Cape York Eskimos, Polar Eskimos, or Smith Sound Inuit, they make up about 1% of the population of Greenland.

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