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Caribou Inuit is a noun.
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WHAT DOES CARIBOU INUIT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Caribou Inuit

Caribou Inuit

Caribou Inuit, Barren-ground Caribou hunters, are bands of inland Inuit who lived west of Hudson Bay in northern Canada's Keewatin Region of the Northwest Territories, now the Kivalliq Region of present-day Nunavut between 61° and 65° N and 90° and 102° W. They were originally named "Caribou Eskimo" by the Danish Fifth Thule Expedition of 1921 - 1924 led by Knud Johan Victor Rasmussen. Caribou Inuit are the southernmost subgroup of the Central Inuit.

Definition of Caribou Inuit in the English dictionary

The definition of Caribou Inuit in the dictionary is a member of any of the Inuit peoples who formerly inhabited the Barren Lands of N Canada.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CARIBOU INUIT

Caria
cariacou
Carib
Cariban
Caribbean
Caribbean Sea
Caribbee bark
Caribbees
caribe
Cariboo
Cariboo Mountains
caribou
caricatura
caricatural
caricature
caricaturist
CARICOM
caried
caries
CARIFTA

WORDS THAT END LIKE CARIBOU INUIT

biscuit
bruit
circuit
closed circuit
conduit
duit
exclusive OR circuit
fruit
grapefruit
Innuit
Inuit
jumpsuit
lawsuit
pursuit
quit
recruit
sluit
suit
swimsuit
the circuit

Synonyms and antonyms of Caribou Inuit in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «Caribou Inuit» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CARIBOU INUIT

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Translator English - Chinese

驯鹿因纽特人
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Caribou Inuit
570 millions of speakers

English

Caribou Inuit
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

कारिबू इनुइट
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

الوعل الاسكيمو
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

карибу инуитов
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Caribou Inuit
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ক্যারিবু ইনুইট
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

Inuit du Caribou
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Caribou Inuit
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Caribou Inuit
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

カリブーイヌイット
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

순록 이누이트
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Caribou Inuit
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

tuần lộc Inuit
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கரிபோ இன்யூட்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कारिबू इनुइट
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Caribou Inuit
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Caribou Inuit
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

karibu Eskimosów
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

карібу інуїтів
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Caribou inuite
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

Caribou Inuit
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Caribou Inuit
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

Caribou inuit
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Caribou Inuit
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of Caribou Inuit

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CARIBOU INUIT»

The term «Caribou Inuit» is barely ever used and occupies the 204.902 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «CARIBOU INUIT» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Caribou Inuit

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CARIBOU INUIT»

Discover the use of Caribou Inuit in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Caribou Inuit and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Hunters and Gatherers
Introduction "Caribou Inuit" is a label assigned by ethnographers to a population of Inuit-speaking Eskimo living on and near the west coast of Hudson Bay. They first came to scientific attention as having the lowest population density in the ...
Richard B. Lee, Richard Heywood Daly, 1999
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Caribou Inuit traders of the Kivalliq Nunavut, Canada
This study explores the relationship between the Caribou Inuit and the Fur Trade in the Kivalliq Barrens of Nunavut, Canada, between the years 1717-1900 A.D. It has previously been posited that with the introduction of European technologies ...
Matthew D. Walls, 2009
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A Native American Encyclopedia: History, Culture, and Peoples
Inuit, Caribou Caribou Inuit (`I nyu it) is a non-native term reflecting the people's reliance on caribou. The Inuit self-designation was Nunamiut, "inlanders." Location The Caribou Inuit homeland is located on the southern Barren Grounds west of ...
Barry Pritzker, 2000
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Atlas of Languages of Intercultural Communication in the ...
At Churchill only a few Caribou Inuit were settled, together with a majority of other people including Quebec Inuit and Aivilingmiut (Iglulik), Cree, Metis, Chipewyans and EuroAmericans. Anthropologists and linguists fail to agree upon the ...
Stephen Adolphe Wurm, Peter Mühlhäusler, Darrell T. Tyron, 1996
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Muskoxen and Their Hunters: A History
Among Inuit tribes the Caribou Inuit, who lived west of Hudson Bay, provide a well-documented example of a people whose dependence on muskoxen changed greatly over time. Initially, these groups made only occasional use of muskoxen ...
Peter C. Lent, 1999
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Let's Visit Nunavut Gr. 2-4
Caribou Inuit lived in an area on the west coast of Hudson Bay. Most Caribou Inuit were strictly inland hunters who never went to the sea. Some Caribou Inuit only did marine hunting in the summer months. Caribou Inuit would carry most of  ...
Ruth Solski
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Faces of the North: The Ethnographic Photography of John ...
Much of the technology of the Caribou Inuit resembled that of other Central Arctic peoples, although their inland orientation in the historic period made it somewhat less extensive. They had kayaks, spears, bows and arrows, dogs and snow ...
Bryan Cummins, 2004
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Sinews of Survival: The Living Legacy of Inuit Clothing
The Caribou Inuit South of the Netsilingmiut and the Iglulingmiut live the Caribou Inuit, on land west of Hudson Bay.” Their territories extend from north of Igluligaarjuk south to the tree line, which at the coast reaches the Manitoba border, and ...
Betty Kobayashi Issenman, 2011
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First Peoples in Canada
After members of the Fifth Thule Expedition extensively described the Caribou Inuit culture in the 1920s, Kaj Birket-Smith proposed his model of interior origins for the Inuit. The Caribou Inuit, with their simple way of life and rudimentary material ...
Alan Daniel McMillan, Alan McMillan, 2004
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Exploring Polar Frontiers: A Historical Encyclopedia
Meeting up with Olsen, who had gone ahead with Birket- Smith, they followed the Inlet to Baker Lake, where they arrived on 12 May to find Birket-Smith happy with what he was learning about the Caribou Inuit from those visiting the HBC post ...
William J. Mills, 2003

5 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CARIBOU INUIT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term Caribou Inuit is used in the context of the following news items.
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Letter: The environmental and humane endeavours of Farley Mowat
Without intending to be, his first novel, People of the Deer, is the best ethnography yet to have been written about the Caribou Inuit people, ... «The Guardian, May 14»
2
Women's jacket fuses baroque, minimalism, sass: Clotheslines
The anorak, invented by the Caribou Inuit of the Arctic region, is a waterproof jacket with a hood and drawstrings at the waist and cuffs. A parka ... «Plain Dealer, Oct 12»
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Inuit exhibit at Birmingham Museum of Art looks at changing culture
“But the Caribou Inuit move with the herds. They follow the migrations in spring and fall. There are sculptures that are beautiful juxtapositions of ... «The Birmingham News - al.com, May 12»
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Canada loses a great artist: Lucy Tasseor Tutsweetok
... border of what was then the Northwest Territories, a member of the Ihalmiut caribou Inuit who lived in and around Ennadai Lake to the north. «Nunatsiaq News, Apr 12»
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Arviat residents explore history through Nanisiniq project
But in 1957, the last remaining Ihalmiut, another Caribou Inuit group, were relocated to Arviat by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Since the ... «Nunatsiaq News, Jun 10»

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