{"id":73763,"date":"2020-06-05T12:04:47","date_gmt":"2020-06-05T16:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/?page_id=73763"},"modified":"2022-11-29T17:24:29","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T22:24:29","slug":"who-are-the-inuit","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/learn\/elementary-home\/elementary-2\/literacy\/literacy-grades-4-6\/reading\/national-indigenous-history-month\/who-are-the-inuit\/","title":{"rendered":"Who are the Inuit?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-73764\" src=\"http:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/06\/1000px-Flag_of_Nunavut.svg_.png\" alt=\"Inuksuk shown on the Flag of Nunavut\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/06\/1000px-Flag_of_Nunavut.svg_.png 1000w, https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/06\/1000px-Flag_of_Nunavut.svg_-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/06\/1000px-Flag_of_Nunavut.svg_-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/06\/1000px-Flag_of_Nunavut.svg_-165x93.png 165w, https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/06\/1000px-Flag_of_Nunavut.svg_-945x532.png 945w, https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/06\/1000px-Flag_of_Nunavut.svg_-750x422.png 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Reading: National Indigenous History Month<\/h5>\n<h2>Goals:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Learn more about the Inuit<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Inuit \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca\/en\/article\/inuktitut\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Inuktitut for \u201cthe people\u201d<\/a> \u2014 are an Indigenous people, most of whom inhabit the northern regions of Canada.<\/p>\n<p>An Inuit person is known as an Inuk.<\/p>\n<p>The Inuit homeland is known as Inuit Nunangat, which refers to the land, water and ice contained <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca\/en\/article\/aboriginal-people-arctic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in the Arctic region<\/a>. By 2016, according to Statistics Canada, the Inuit population was 65,025 people.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about the Inuit, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/cmc\/exhibitions\/aborig\/fp\/fpz3a_1e.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">explore this article from the History Museum of Canada<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As you read, <a href=\"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/learn\/elementary-home\/elementary-2\/literacy\/literacy-grades-4-6\/whats-new\/national-indigenous-history-month\/\">add information and questions to your mind map<\/a> about National Indigenous History Month. You can write down facts that help answer some of your questions. You can also write down new questions that you have.<\/p>\n<h3>Other Opportunities:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Keep on reading <a href=\"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/learn\/elementary-home\/elementary-2\/literacy\/literacy-grades-4-6\/exploring-the-library-learning-commons\/\">books you choose every day<\/a>!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inuit \u2014 Inuktitut for \u201cthe people\u201d \u2014 are an Indigenous people, most of whom inhabit the northern regions of Canada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15985,"featured_media":0,"parent":74013,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73763","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-elementary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/73763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15985"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/73763\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/74013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}