Inupiat
（重定向自Inupiaq）
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![Semi-underground men's community house (Qargi) with bowhead whale bones, Point Hope, Alaska, 1885](/Images/godic/202501/20/PointHopeHousesUSGSric006823753.jpg")
![Iñupiaq high-kick ball, ca. 1910, Barrow, Alaska, collection of the NMAI](/Images/godic/202501/20/Inupiaq_ball_pt_barrow_19103753.jpg")
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The Iñupiat (or Inupiaq) are an Inuit, Alaska Native people, whose traditional territory spans Norton Sound on the Bering Sea to the Canadian border. Their current communities include seven Alaskan villages in the North Slope Borough, affiliated with the Arctic Slope Regional Corporation; eleven villages in Northwest Arctic Borough; and sixteen villages affiliated with the Bering Straits Regional Corporation.