Ahiagmiut

Ahiagmiut were a geographically defined Copper Inuit subgroup in the northern Canadian territory of Nunavut. They were located near Ogden Bay,{{cite book| last = Stefansson| first = Vilhjalmur| title = The Stefánsson-Anderson Arctic Expedition of the American Museum: Preliminary Ethnological Report| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=-NhBAAAAIAAJ| year = 1914| publisher = The Trustees of the American Museum| location = New York| oclc = 13626409| page = 28 }} on the Queen Maud Gulf, and inland towards Back River, then on towards the Akilinik River.{{cite journal|last=Stefansson |first=V. |date=1914-12-30|title=Prehistoric and Present Commerce among the Arctic Coast Eskimo|journal=Geological Survey Museum Bulletin|volume=6|page=14|url=https://archive.org/stream/prehistoricprese00stefiala/prehistoricprese00stefiala_djvu.txt}}

According to Arctic explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Ahiagmiut abandoned their sleds in the summer and proceeded to the Back River with back packs and pack dogs.{{cite book| last = Stefansson| first = Vilhjalmur| title = My Life with the Eskimo| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=AE_P_XngIi0C| date = 2004| publisher = Kessinger Publishing| isbn = 978-1-4179-2395-3| page = 285 }}

Their hunting area was south of another subgroup, the Ekalluktogmiut, on the mainland.{{cite web|url=http://www.svs.is/Vefsetur%20Vilhjalms%20Stefanssonar/ste/mai1911.htm |title=Stefansson-Anderson expedition 1908-1912 |publisher=svs.is |accessdate=2008-10-30 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720012633/http://www.svs.is/Vefsetur%20Vilhjalms%20Stefanssonar/ste/mai1911.htm |archivedate=2011-07-20 }}

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