Arviat
| Arviat ᐊᕐᕕᐊᑦ |
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 Canada
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| Territory : | Nunavut | ||
| Region: | Kivalliq | ||
| Coordinates : | 61 ° 6 ′ N , 94 ° 3 ′ W | ||
| Residents : | 2060 (as of 2006) | ||
| Time zone : | Eastern Time ( UTC − 5 ) | ||
| Postal code : | X0C 0E0 | ||
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Arviat ("like a little bowhead whale", from arviq, bowhead whale; formerly Eskimo Point ) is a settlement in the Canadian Nunavut region of Kivalliq . It has about 2,100 inhabitants (92% of them Inuit) and has a scheduled flight connection ( First Air Ltd.) with Churchill and Rankin Inlet .
People have lived here and in the surrounding Barrenlands since the 12th century - Indians from the Chipewyan tribe and Thule ancestors of the Pallirmiut, who now live in the Arviat settlement. These Pallirmiut belong to the Caribou or Inland Inuit, and their camps were mainly around Yathkyed Lake and in the Ennadai Lake area before the settlement was established . Unlike the other inland Inuit, whose food and clothing source was almost exclusively caribou, the Pallirmiut penetrated as far as the coastline of Hudson Bay and lived on marine mammals such as seals and belugas in addition to caribou. The name of the trading post Padlei (actually Palliq, "dried branch"), which has long since been abandoned, is reminiscent of them.
The Pallirmiut's first contacts with whites (researchers) arose at the end of the 18th century, and during the 19th century the Pallirmiut brokered the fur and ivory trade between Inuit living further north and the Hudson's Bay Company , whose cargo ships were before the “Eskimo Point ”anchored.
In 1921 the Hudson's Bay Company established a trading post here, a Roman Catholic mission was established in 1924 and an Anglican one in 1926. The first school opened in 1959, which was also a sign of the actual establishment of the Arviat settlement (then Eskimo Point).
Arviat u. a. by Inuit artists such as Luke Anautalik (* 1932), George Arluk (* 1949), Joy Kiluvigyuak Hallauk (1940–2000), John Pangnark (1920–1980), Julia Pingushat (* 1948), Lucy Tassiur Tutswituk (* 1934) .
Movie
- Kikkik (Martin Kreelak, Ole Gjerstad, Elisapee Karetak), 2000
literature
- Miriam Dewar (Ed.): The Nunavut Handbook: Traveling in Canada's Arctic . Ayaya Marketing & Communications, Iqaluit / Ottawa 2004, ISBN 0-9736754-0-3 (English).
- Farley Mowat: Companions of the Reindeer (English: People of the Deer ), Stuttgart 1954
- Farley Mowat: Chronicle of the Desperate - The Fall of the Karibu-Eskimo (English: The Desperate People ), Leipzig 1962
- Farley Mowat: Walking on the Land , South Royalton (Vermont) 2001 ISBN 1-58642-024-0
- Ansgar Walk: In the Land of the Inuit , Bielefeld 2002 (p. 217ff.) ISBN 3-934872-21-2
