Salluit
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| Province : | Quebec | ||
| Administrative region : | North du Quebec | ||
| MRC or equivalent : | Nunavik | ||
| Coordinates : | 62 ° 11 ′ N , 75 ° 40 ′ W | ||
| Residents : | 1241 (as of 2006) | ||
Salluit (formerly Sugluk ) is the fourth largest Inuit settlement in the Nunavik region , administrative region of North du Québec , with around 1,150 inhabitants . The name of the settlement means “the thin ones” and reveals that the area did not always have enough food available for the people living here. The place is located about 10 kilometers off the Hudson Strait on Sugluk Inlet , an inlet of the Hudson Strait that cuts about 24 kilometers deep into the Canadian mainland (northern end of the Ungava Peninsula ).
Archaeological finds on the island of Qikirtaq, located at the entrance to the Sugluk estuary in 1958, showed that people lived here around 800 BC. BC to the year 1000 people of the Dorset culture . Among the relics was the "Sugluk Masquette", an approximately 2 centimeter high, carved ivory mask from around 400 BC. Chr., Because of their cultural value special interest.
Between 1925 and 1930, the Hudson's Bay Company built a trading post in new places and expanded it with housing and warehouses. After the fur prices fell steadily shortly afterwards, the society restricted its activities again after 1932.
The Roman Catholic Church opened a mission station in 1930, but gave it up again 20 years later. An Anglican Mission was established in 1955 and a state day school in 1957. In the course of time, more and more Inuit moved from the surrounding camps to the settlement, and in 1968 they were able to open a so-called co-op store with their cooperative.
Together with the residents of Puvirnituq and Ivujivik , 49% of the Inuit of Salluit refused in 1975 to sign the agreement between the Baie James and North Quebec , with which the remaining Inuit of Nunavik acquired certain land claims and rights and in return made it possible for the provincial government to do so to carry out an ambitious Baie James hydropower project. Instead, they formed their own interest group ("Inuit Tungavinga Nunamini").