Arviat
Arviat ( " like a small bowhead whale " of arviq, bowhead ) - formerly Eskimo Point is a location in Canada's Nunavut Kivalliq region settlement. It has about 2,100 inhabitants ( of which 92 % Inuit ) and has scheduled flight ( First Air Ltd. ) With Churchill and Rankin Inlet.
People lived here and in the surrounding Barrenlands since the 12th century - Indians from the tribe of the Chipewyan and Thule ancestors of Pallirmiut mentioned, today living in the settlement Arviat Inuit group. This Pallirmiut among the caribou or Inland Inuit, and their camps were located before the establishment of the settlement mainly around the Yathkyed Lake and in the area of Ennadai Lake. Unlike the other inland Inuit, whose food and clothing were almost exclusively source caribou, invaded the Pallirmiut prior to the coastline of the Hudson Bay and lived out of caribou and marine mammals such as seals and belugas. To her the name of the long since discontinued trading post reminds Padlei (actually Palliq, " dried branch ").
First contacts with the Pallirmiut to whites ( researchers ) resulted in the end of the 18th century, and during the 19th century mediated the Pallirmiut the fur and ivory trade between continued living in northern Inuit and the Hudson's Bay Company, whose cargo ships before then " Eskimo Point " anchored.
1921 established the Hudson 's Bay Company trading post here, a Roman Catholic mission was established in 1924 and an Anglican 1926. The first school was opened in 1959, at the same time a sign of the actual founding of the settlement Arviat (formerly Eskimo Point yet ).
Became known Arviat, inter alia, by Inuit artists such as Luke Anautalik ( b. 1932 ), George Arluk (* 1949), Joy Kiluvigyuak Hallauk ( 1940-2000 ), John Pangnark ( 1920-1980 ), Julia Pingushat (* 1948), Lucy Tassiur Tutswituk (* 1934).