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border="0"><br><br><br> <center> <i>Inuktitut language family area</i><p> </center> <font size="+1"> The Inuit occupied the Arctic regions of Canada, Alaska and Greenland, as well as parts of the Subarctic coasts, excluding the southern and western shores of James Bay. They are distinct in physical appearance, language and customs from all the Indian tribes of North America. Historically, the Inuit comprised ten distinct groups occupying the Canadian Arctic: Mackenzie (Mackenzie River region), Copper (Coronation Gulf), Caribou (western Hudson Bay), Netsilik (Boothia Peninsula), Igloolik (western Baffin Island and Melville Peninsula), Sadlermiut (Southampton Island), Baffin (central and eastern Baffin Island), Polar (northwestern Greenland), Hudson Bay (northeastern Hudson Bay) and Labrador (north and east coasts, south to Hamilton Inlet). For subsistence during the summer months, they relied on fishing and caribou hunting in the interior, and on whaling, and seal and walrus hunting along the coast. Seal hunting and ice fishing provided the major food sources in the winter in most regions, with some caribou hunting in the interior. 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