Netsilik Inuit

Netsilik or real Natsilik Inuit, also Natsilingmiut ( Inuktitut for " people of the seal hunters " from " Natsiq ", Seal ), a small Inuit group, called the to the Arctic north coast of Canada on the peninsula of Boothia and on King William island between the 68th and 70th degree of north latitude and the 89th and 95th degree w. L. is at home and is now living in the settlements Gjoa Haven, Kugaaruk and Taloyoak. Their number was 1923 according to Rasmussen 259 (150 men and 109 women); around the year 2000 lived in the three settlements around 2,400 Inuit.

Their traditional lifestyle habits are considered to be particularly well known after this by Roald Amundsen (1903-1905) and Knud Rasmussen ( 1920 ) have been explored. From 1959 to 1965, the American anthropologist Asen Balıkcı captured the lifestyle of Natsilik with the film camera. Important details of life in the settlement Taloyoak Ernie Lyall in 1979 noted in his biography " An Arctic Man."