The Kuukpangmiut - Ancestral Inuvialuit

Whalers, traders, missionaries and others from ‘outside’ soon followed the European explorers.

Unknowingly, they brought with them foreign diseases that took a terrible toll on the Kuukpangmiut and their neighbours. Most of those who survived turned to trapping for a living, and moved to areas where it was easier to sell their furs to Tang’it traders.

By the early 1900s, the traditional settlements lay abandoned. Graves dotting the hills overlooking Qangmaliq Bay bear silent testimony to the many generations of Kuukpangmuit and other ancestral Inuvialuit whose history is written upon the landscape.