Chapter 6
List of the Central Eskimo Tribes
The following list gives the tribes of the Central Eskimo and their geographical distribution:
- I. Northern coast of Labrador:
- (1) Kangivamiut (George River).
- (2) Kouksoarmiut (Big River).
- (3) Ungavamiut (Hope Advance Bay).
- (4) Itivimiut (Cape Wolstenholme).
- II. Northern shore of Hudson Strait:
- (5) Sikosuilarmiut (King Cape).
- (6) Akuliarmiut (North Bluff).
- (7) Qaumauangmiut (Middle Savage Islands).
- III. Davis Strait:
- (8) Nugumiut (Frobisher Bay).
- (9) Oqomiut (Cumberland Sound):
- a. Talirpingmiut (west shore of Cumberland Sound and Nettilling).
- b. Qinguamiut (head of Cumberland Sound).
- c. Kingnaitmiut (Qeqerten and environs).
- d. Saumingmiut (southern part of Cumberland Peninsula).
- (10) Akudnirmiut (Davis Strait).
- a. Padlimiut (Padli Fjord).
- b. Akudnirmiut (Home Bay).
- IV. Northern part of Baffin Land, North Devon, and Ellesmere Land:
- (11) Aggomiut.
- a. Tununirmiut (Eclipse Sound).
- b. Tununirusirmiut (Admiralty Inlet and North Devon).
- (12) Inhabitants of Umingman Nuna (Ellesmere Land).
- V. Melville Peninsula, Wager River, and Southampton Island:
- (13) a. Iglulirmiut (Fury and Hecla Strait).
- b. Amitormiut (eastern coast of Melville Peninsula).
- (14) a. Pilingmiut (eastern coast of Fox Basin).
- b. Sagdlirmiut (islands of Fox Basin).
- (15) Aivillirmiut (Repulse Bay and Wager River).
- (16) Sagdlirmiut (Southampton Island):
- VI. (17) Kinipetu (Chesterfield Inlet).
- VII. Boothia Felix and King William Land:
- (18) Sinimiut (Pelly Bay).
- (19) Netchillirmiut (Boothia Felix and King William Land).
- (20) Ugjulirmiut (King William Land and Adelaide Peninsula).
- (21) Ukusiksalirmiut (estuary of Back River).
- VIII. Qidnelik (coast west of Adelaide Peninsula).
- IX. Inhabitants of North Greenland.