Salluit, Quebec

Salluit (formerly Sugluk ), with about 1,150 inhabitants, is the fourth largest Inuit settlement in the region of Nunavik, administrative region of Nord- du- Québec. The village name means "The Thin " and reveals that the environment is not always held enough food for the people living here ready. The village is located about 10 kilometers off the Hudson Strait at Sugluk Inlet, one located approximately 24 kilometers deep into the Canadian mainland ( north end of the Ungava Peninsula) drastic estuary of the Hudson Strait.

As archaeological finds in the city, in the entrance of the estuary Sugluk - island Qikirtaq 1958 revealed lived about 800 BC to the year 1000, people of the Dorset culture. Among the relics found the " Sugluk Masquette ", about 2 inches wide, carved ivory mask from the period around 400 BC, special interest because of their cultural value.

Between 1925 and 1930, the Hudson's Bay Company built on always new places a trading post and built it with residential facilities and warehouses further. After shortly after the fur prices fell steadily, the company reduced its activities after 1932 again.

The Roman Catholic Church opened a mission station in 1930, but this was 20 years later on. In 1955 an Anglican mission, and in 1957 a government day school. Over 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 refused 49% of the Inuit of Salluit, 1975, to sign the agreement of the James Bay and Quebec North, with which the other Inuit of Nunavik certain land claims and rights acquired and allowed the return, the provincial government, the carry out ambitious Baie- James - hydropower project. They formed instead a separate community of interest ( " Inuit Tungavinga Nunamini ").