I pulled this from the Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada website. Inuit "The Canadian constitution recognizes three groups of Aboriginal people: Indians, Métis and Inuit. read more
The Inuit arrived in Canada about 1000 years ago from Siberia and displaced the previous inhabitants of the North (the Dorset culture). They lived in their own relatively isolated Northern world, unlike various First Nations groups that interacted and exchanged much more with each other materially and culturally. read more
In Canada, sections 25 and 35 of the Constitution Act of 1982 classified the Inuit as a distinctive group of Aboriginal Canadians who are not included under either the First Nations or the Métis. read more