Who lives in the North?
In the Yukon Territory, the population is about 77 percent non-Aboriginal people. Most of the 23 percent who are Aboriginal are members of First Nations. In the NWT, about 49 percent of the population is Aboriginal. They are Dene, Métis and Inuvialuit (Inuit of the western Arctic). In Nunavut, 85 percent of the population is Inuit.