Circumpolar peoples

[1] They are therefore excluding from the definition certain numerically large indigenous communities like the Komi peoples, Karelians or Yakuts.

[3][4] The Dorset culture (Inuktitut: Tuniit or Tunit) refers to the next inhabitants of central and eastern Arctic.

[7] Other Indigenous peoples of the circumpolar north include the Chukchi, Evenks, Iñupiat, Khanty, Koryaks, Nenets, Sámi, Yukaghir, and Yupik.

Yupik people still refer to themselves as Eskimo which means "snowshoe netters", not "raw meat eaters" as it is sometimes mistakenly translated.

Generally, when indigenous peoples participate in international discussion, they have the status of non-governmental organizations (NGOs), in order to differentiate them from states.

Certain areas still remain under a state-only control as the Arctic Council's aim is to focus on sustainable development and environmental protection in the Arctic region, excluding de facto other topics like security or border disputes.

[10] Moreover, the law states that indigenous peoples have to be part of « strategic planning », in other words in defining the various deadlines of such projects.

A revenue sharing scheme would improve Arctic indigenous peoples' living standards and enable them to gain further economic autonomy.

Circumpolar coastal human population distribution ca. 2009 (includes both Indigenous and non-Indigenous)
Chukchi , one of many Indigenous peoples of Siberia . Representation of a Chukchi family by Louis Choris (1816)
A group of igloos forming an Inuit village, 1824, by George Francis Lyon
Sami people in Norway, c. 1900, painted by Wilhelm Peters
Russia's Arctic coastline from the White Sea to the Bering Strait had been explored and settled by Pomors , Russian settlers from Novgorod .