Inuit definition

Inuit or “Inuit Firm”: means a company that is at least 51% owned by Inuit and is included on the Nunavut Tunngavik Inc. (NTI) Inuit Firms Listing at the time the contract is awarded.

Inuit or “Inuit beneficiary (ies)” means Inuit person(s) within the meaning of the Act respecting Cree, Inuit and Naskapi Native Persons (R.S.Q., c. A-33.1);

Inuit means Inuit as defined in Section 1.1.1 of the NLCA, with eligibility being evidenced by enrollment on the NTI Inuit enrollment list pursuant to Article 35 of the NLCA.

Examples of Inuit in a sentence

• These are the ancestral lands of the Anishinaabe, Ininew, and Dakota Nations as well as the traditional trade and travel routes of the Anishininew, Dene, and Inuit.

• We have been pleased to watch Distinctions Based Funding unfold, meaning, the Crown increasingly funds Indigenous Governments directly, giving full autonomy over Housing decisions to the FirstNations, Métis and Inuit who lived here for generations.

• Land Acknowledgement Chair Myers acknowledged that the TTC Board was meeting on the traditional territory of many nations including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples and is now home to many diverse First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples.

• The Chair also acknowledged the diverse Indigenous peoples whose ancestors' footsteps have marked this territory for centuries such as: Cree, Dene, Saulteaux, Blackfoot, Nakota Sioux, as well as Metis and Inuit, and now settlers from around the world.

• Aboriginal is defined as all First Nations, Inuit, Métis and North American Indian peoples.

More Definitions of Inuit

Inuit has the same meaning as set out in the Nunavut Agreement.

Inuit means Inuit as defined in Article 1 of the NLCA;

Inuit means an individual who:

Inuit means all those members of the aboriginal people of Labrador, sometimes known as Eskimos, that has traditionally used and occupied and currently uses and occupies the lands, waters and sea ice of the Labrador Inuit Land Claims Area, or any Region. “Inuit” does not include beneficiaries of:

Inuit means the Inuit of Nunavut as defined under paragraph (b) of the definition of Inuit set out in section 1.1.1 of the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement, and “Inuk” is the singular of Inuit;

Inuit means indigenous members of the Inuit homeland - i.e. those Arctic and subarctic areas where, presently or traditionally, Inuit have Aboriginal rights and interests - recognised by Inuit as being of their people and shall include Inupiat, Yupik (Alaska), Inuit, Inuvialuit (Canada), Kalaallit (Greenland) and Yupik (Russia);

Inuit in the plural: a person eligible pursuant to paragraphs 3.2.4, 3.2.5 and 3.2.6 of Section 3 of the Agreement.