When Nunavut split off, the Inuvialuit are western Canadian Inuit that remained in the Northwest Territories. They live mostly in the Mackenzie River delta, on Banks Island, and parts of Victoria Island in the Northwest Territories. They are officially represented by the Inuvialuit Regional Corporation and, in 1984, received a detailed land claims negotiation, the very first in Northern Canada, with the signing of the Inuvialuit Final Agreement.

The TFN helped ten years and, in September 1992, came to a last arrangement along with the Government of Canada. This contract required the separation of the Northwest Territories into an eastern area whose aboriginal population would be predominately Inuit, the future Nunavut, and a rump Northwest Territories in the west. It was the largest land cases agreement in Canadian past. In November 1992, the Nunavut Final Agreement was accepted by nearly 85 % of the Inuit of exactly what would certainly become Nunavut. As the last step in this lengthy process, the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement was joined May 25, 1993, in Iqaluit by Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and by Paul Quassa, the head of state of Nunavut Tunngavik Incorporated, which replaced the TFN with the approval of the Nunavut Final Agreement. The Canadian Parliament passed the sustaining legislation in June of the same year, enabling the 1999 structure of Nunavut as a territorial body.

With the establishment of Nunatsiavut in 2005, most the standard Inuit lands in Canada, with the exemption Nunatu Kavut in south and main Labrador, are now covered by some kind of land cases arrangement providing for local freedom.

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