THE BAFFIN ISLAND INUIT.

The Baffin Island is the largest island in the Artic Archipelago and in the territory of Nunavut.
Baffin Island is home to a number of Inuit communities, including Iqaluit, Pangnirtung, Pond Inlet, Clyde River, Arctic Bay, Kimmirut, and Nanisivik. They live on Baffin Island as part of the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut, the most Eastern and administrative region and also the most populated. Iqaluit is near a traditional South Baffin Inuit fishing camp.
The Baffin Island has been inhabited by the Inuit for thousands of years. Inuit from Baffin Island are descendants of the Thule, who expanded Eastward across Canada from Alaska. The Baffin Island Inuit share biological and cultural links with their ancestors.
The Baffin Island Inuit display considerable regional diversity in both dialect and culture. Those in the far North belong to the Igloolik, who also live on the mainland. The remaining groups, often collectively referred to as the South Baffin Inuit, are concentrated along the rugged East Coast, including Cumberland Sound and Frobisher Bay, and along the North Shore of Hudson Strait. The latter share many cultural traits with Labrador Inuit on the other side of Hudson Strait, which was frequently crossed for trading purposes.
Archeological remains of carved masks, yarn, and European rats indicate European contact with the Baffin Island as early as 1000 CE. Also the presence of alloys used by the Vikings in whetstones on the  area suggest a trade network between the Baffin Island Inuits and the Vikings.
In 1576, the Inuit of Baffin Island made contact with English venturers, when Martin Frobisher traded with the Inuit and kidnapped one or three of them in the bay that now bears his name. More conflict ensued on his 1577 visit, when hostilities with the Inuit were renewed, prompting Frobisher to return to England. This time he brought with him four Inuit captives, who did not survive more than two months.
Throughout the 18th and early 19th centuries, Inuit along the South Coast had occasional trade contacts with European venturers and supply vessels that stopped briefly on their way to Hudson Bay. Further North, the Inuit of Davis Strait did not encounter outsiders in any numbers until after 1820, when Scottish and American killers of whales started making annual visits to Baffin Island through the heavy drift ice of Western Baffin Bay.
Inuit material culture was greatly modified by the increased flow of trade goods, including firearms, and by the large supply of wood provided by frequent shipwrecks. Contact with Westerners increased during the late 19th century when the killers of whales started to establish permanent shore stations.
Although the Inuit welcomed regular trade and occasional employment, their population declined rapidly because of the dietary changes and exposure to Western diseases. After the decline of commercial whaling in the 20th century, the Inuit of Baffin turned increasingly to fox trapping in order to satisfy their dependence on Western manufacturers.
After relocation projects in the 1950s that forcibly removed Inuit from their traditional habitat, the Baffin Island Inuit now live in homes in Iqaluit (Frobisher Bay), making it the largest and forcible settlement on the island.
In June 2014, the National Energy Board approved plans from a consortium led by Multi-Client Invest AS (MCI) to begin 5 years of "seismic" testing around the island, mapping the sea floor and under sea geology using high-intensity sounds. Many Inuit opposed the program, arguing that the testing harm and disturb local food sources, including seals, whales, and walruses. Also Inuit people fought against offshore and oil and gas extraction. After the protests, the Federal government placed a "moratorium" on offshore development near Coral Harbour in 1971. Seven years later, the Canadian government placed another "moratorium" on oil development in Lancaster Sound after Inuit groups successfully expressed their opposition to the program. The only way in which these projects can go on is by having the Inuit population reduced in numbers and in the forcible way of life they live now away from their former habitats, it is not going to last long the life of the new generation of Inuits. In this way, not only the Baffin Island will pay the consequences of human greed, it will be paid off by the lack of resources in natural life around the whole World.