1955 Definitive Inuk & Kayak 10¢ Canada

Definitive Inuk & Kayak Canada 10¢ 1955

1955 Definitive Inuk & Kayak 10¢ Canada 

Text:           10¢ Canada Post

Condition:    Ø = used/cancelled

Title:   Eskimo in a kayak

Face value:     10

Stamp Currency:         cent

Country/area:                     Canada

Year:   1955-02-21

Set:     1955  Canoeing

Stamp number in set:           1

Basic colour:      Brown

Exact colour:       Brown White

Usage:                           Definitive

Type:               Stamp

Theme:           Canoeing

Stamp subject:   Eskimo in a kayak

NVPH number:                     

Michel number:         302

Yvert number:                         278

Scott number:                         351

Stanley Gibbons number:    477

Printing office:           Canadian Bank Note Company Ltd

Perforation:    12

Size:                            38 x 26

Watermark:     Without watermark

Paper:            

Printing:             Recess

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Inuk & Kayak Canada

The Inuit (Inuktitut: ᐃᓄᐃᑦ, "People") are a group of culturally similar indigenous peoples inhabiting the Arctic regions of Greenland, Canada, the United States, and eastern Siberia. Inuit is a plural noun; the singular is "Inuk". The Inuit languages are classified in the Eskimo-Aleut family.

In the United States, the term Eskimo is commonly used in reference to these groups, because it includes both of Alaska's Yupik and Inupiat peoples while "Inuit" is not proper or accepted as a term for the Inupiat. No collective term exists for both peoples other than "Eskimo".

However, natives in Canada and Greenland view the name as pejorative and "Inuit" has become more common. In Canada, sections 25 and 35 of the Constitution Act of 1982 named the "Inuit" as a distinctive group of aboriginal Canadians who are not included under either the First Nations or the Métis.

The Inuit live throughout most of the Canadian Arctic and subarctic in the territory of Nunavut; "Nunavik" in the northern third of Quebec; "Nunatsiavut" and "Nunatukavut" in Labrador; and in various parts of the Northwest Territories, particularly around the Arctic Ocean. These areas are known in Inuktitut as the "Inuit Nunangat". In the United States, Inupiat live on the North Slope in Alaska and on Little Diomede Island. In Russia, they live on Big Diomede Island. The Greenlandic Inuit are the descendants of migrations from Canada and are citizens of Denmark, although not of the European Union.

In the United States, the term "Eskimo" is commonly used, because it distinguished both Yupik and Inupiat peoples from other native Americans. The Yupik do not speak an Inuit language or consider themselves to be Inuit. However, as the term is a—probably Montagnais– exonym and has been widely folk etymologized as meaning "eater of raw meat" in Cree, it has become considered a pejorative or even racial slur among Canadian and English-speaking Greenlandic Inuit.

In Canada and Greenland, "Inuit" is preferred. Inuit is the Eastern Canadian Inuit (Inuktitut) and West Greenlandic (Kalaallisut) word for "People". Since Inuktitut and Kalaallisut are the prestige dialects in Canada and Greenland, respectively, their version has become dominant, although every Inuit dialect uses cognates from the Proto-Eskimo *ińuɣ – for example, "people" is inughuit in North Greenlandic and iivit in East Greenlandic.

Kayak

The natives hunted sea animals from single-passenger, covered seal-skin boats called qajaq (Inuktitut syllabics: ᖃᔭᖅ) which were extraordinarily buoyant, and could easily be righted by a seated person, even if completely overturned. Because of this property the design was copied by Europeans, and Americans who still produce them under the Inuit name kayak.