The North Alaskan Inupiat of Canada

The North Alaskan Inupiat of Canada, numbering approximately 7,900 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are one of the major regional groups of the Iñupiat, an Indigenous Inuit people whose homelands span the northernmost and northwestern regions of Alaska. They mostly adhere to Protestantism and North Alaskan Inupiatun is their primary language.

Photo by Google. (2026). Image generated by Gemini 3.1 Flash: Inupiat, North Alaskan

Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: North American Peoples
Country: Canada
People Cluster: Arctic Peoples
Primary Language(s): North Alaskan Inupiatun (esi)
Primary Religion(s): Protestantism
Population: 7,900
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): No Longer Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): 10% or Greater Evangelical
People Group ID: PG043446
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Protestantism
Religious Affiliation: Christianity

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%
Protestantism Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: North Alaskan Inupiatun
Language Family: Eskimo-Aleut

50%
%
Inupiatun, North Alaskan Speakers

Media Resources in North Alaskan Inupiatun:

Films:

No film resources are listed for this language.

Bible Resources in North Alaskan Inupiatun:

Bible Name (Translation)VideoAudioText
ABS 1992✓

1 entry

Or check out the North Alaskan Inupiatun bible at Bible.com

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SPI: No longer Unreached

The North Alaskan Inupiat are No Longer Unreached, which means there are more than 2% evangelical Christian populations and there are churches consistent with evangelical faith and practice. There is still more to be done among them.

Next steps for the North Alaskan Inupiat:
Empower local believers to begin praying for their own people
Continue gospel seed sowing and church planting
Encourage local leaders to being leading church planting strategy and looking for Unreached and Unengaged groups nearby

Pray specifically for the North Alaskan Inupiat of Canada

"And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
readJohn 8:32

Pray for those who live enslaved to sin to hear and receive the truth of the gospel and be set free.

After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands, and crying out with a loud voice, ‘Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb’
readRevelation 7:9-10

Pray that many people will receive the gospel and will be part of the great multitude from every nation, tribe, people, and language, clothed in white robes and palm branches, proclaiming salvation belongs to our God.

Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.
readPhilippians 2:5-7

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will imitate His humility in all they do.

In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of his glory.
readEphesians 1:13-14

Pray that God will work through believers near and far in bringing the lost to Himself, giving them what they need to do the task He has set before them, and helping them rest in Him because He has given them His Spirit.

Inupiat, North Alaskan Across Countries (ROP3 - 107396) reported in the following countries:

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