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Iñupiat (Iñupiaq)

500 – present
Native nationNorth America

Arctic whalers and caribou hunters of Alaska's far north, kin to the Inuit of Canada, ranging from Norton Sound across the Seward Peninsula to the North Slope and the Canadian line.

Survived the commercial-whaling collapse and epidemics of the 1800s; under ANCSA (1971) their lands vest in the Arctic Slope, NANA and Bering Straits corporations, and the Iñupiat govern the North Slope and Northwest Arctic boroughs to 2026.

Borders in 2026 · drawn from 4 sourced border frames
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Borders over time

The atlas holds 4 border frames for Iñupiat (Iñupiaq) — the shape you scrub through changes in 500 · 1848 · 1867 · 1971.

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