Group of peoples who, with the closely related Aleut, constitute the native population of the Arctic and subarctic regions of Greenland, Alaska, Canada, and far eastern Siberia.

• 与阿留申人（Aleut）的族源关系最近，两者共同构成北极地区及近北极地区原住民之主要成分，其范围自格陵兰、阿拉斯加、加拿大以至西伯利亚最东端。