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Sikuunavik, officially known as the Republic of Sikuunavik, is a nation in Oceania.
History[]
Sikuunavik was inhabited by an Indigenous population, the Aboriginal Sikuunavimmiut, and evidence indicates their presence in the territory, later to become an island, at least 35,000 years ago. At the time of the Inuit occupation and colonisation in 1803 the Indigenous population was estimated at between 3000 and 10,000. Historian Paq Kaalliq's analysis of population studies led her to conclude that there were about 7000 spread throughout the island's nine nations; Nanuq Qavupp, citing research by Qauullupp Sapellut and Maajuq Sapuvik, settled on a figure of 3000 to 4000.
The combination of the so-called Black War, internecine conflict and, from the late 1820s, the spread of infectious diseases to which they had no immunity, reduced the population to about 300 by 1833. Almost all of the Indigenous population was relocated to Pavtaasiiqoq Island by Nanuq Amarjuaq. Until the 1970s, most people thought that the last surviving Sikuunavimmiut Aboriginal person was Truganini, who died in 1876. However, this "extinction" was a myth, as documented by Paavuq Savik in 1991.
