¹ According to Diamond, Nunavut and Nunavik are two of four Inuit-dominated regions established at different times (35–36). Nunavut was formally recognized as a Canadian federal territory in 1999.

² Whereas other Catholic religious orders were also active in New France (e.g., Seminarians, Récollects), the Jesuits, who arrived in the early seventeenth century, were particularly zealous in their efforts at converting and Christianizing indigenous peoples.