Kitigaaryuit

[5]: 26  The very shallow waters in the area made it a sort of trap for belugas, which were hunted by groups of men in kayaks using harpoons.

[6]: 19–20  Kitigaaryuit's population varied by season; many Kitigaaryungmiut left the area around the start of autumn because better hunting prospects could be found elsewhere.

[2][3] While the Inuvialuit of the Mackenzie Delta had some prior contact with foreign traders, exposure to Western society increased after 1889, when large groups of American whalers began travelling to the area.

[7]: 596  An Inuvialuk elder recounted in an oral history interview: It hadn't been long after the flu arrived that the people began to die off.

[3] The Hudson's Bay Company opened a trading post at Kitigaaryuk in 1912; it closed in 1933,[2] and the area was abandoned thereafter, but is still occupied seasonally by hunters.