Editing Inuvialuit (section)

==History and migration==
[[File:Inuvialuit camp near Tuktoyaktuk.jpg|thumb|left|Traditional Inuvialuit [[whaling]] camp near [[Tuktoyaktuk]]]]
[[File:Inuvialuit Settlement Region.png|thumb|left|Map of the Inuvialuit homeland]]
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The Inuvialuit Settlement Region was primarily inhabited by ''[[Siglit]]'' Inuit until their numbers were decimated by the introduction of new diseases in the second half of the 19th century. [[Nunamiut]], Alaskan [[Iñupiat]], moved into traditional Siglit areas in the 1910s and 20s, enticed in part by renewed demand for furs from the [[Hudson's Bay Company]] and European markets. The Nunamiut who settled in the Siglit area became known as [[Uummarmiut]]. Originally, there was an intense dislike between the Siglit and the Uummarmiut, but these differences faded over the years, and the two aboriginal peoples intermarried. With improved healthcare and Nunatamiut intermarriage, the Inuvialuit now number approximately 3,100.<ref name="inuvualuit"/><ref name="Inuvik"/>

In the 1930s, the Inuvialuit were involved in a Canadian government scheme to introduce [[reindeer herding]] as the primary economic driver of the Western Arctic. At tremendous expense, thousands of domesticated animals were herded from Alaska to the new [[Mackenzie River|Mackenzie Delta]] community of [[Reindeer Station]]. Indigenous [[Sámi people]] were imported from Norway to teach Inuvialuit men how to care for their own individual herds. However, the program was relatively unsuccessful, as it required a lonely lifestyle and was less lucrative than traditional hunting and [[trapping]].<ref name="timeline">{{cite web |website=NWT Timeline |url=https://www.nwttimeline.ca/1925/Reindeer_1935.htm |title=1935 Reindeer Herding in the Northwest Territories |publisher=Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre |access-date=22 February 2021}}</ref>

The Inuvialuit Settlement Region Traditional Knowledge Report of 2006 identified additional naming characteristics. Those Inuvialuit who live in the west are called ''Ualinirmiut'' (''Ualiniq'') by the people of the east. The Inuvialuit who occupy the east are known as ''Kivaninmiut'' (''Kivaliniq'') by the people of the west.<ref name="report">{{cite web |date=August 2006 |title=Inuvialuit Settlement Region Traditional Knowledge Report |url=https://www.capekrusenstern.org/docs/icc_study_2006.pdf |access-date=2009-03-16 |publisher=ngps.nt.ca |pages=45}}</ref>

The Inuit of [[Ulukhaktok]] are neither Siglit nor Uummarmiut but are [[Copper Inuit]] and refer to themselves as ''Ulukhaktokmuit'' after ''Ulukhaktok'', the native name for what used to be called Holman.

The proposed [[Mackenzie Valley Pipeline]] would have passed through both Inuvialuit and [[Gwichʼin]] territory before the abandonment of the project in 2017.