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The inuksuk may historically have been used for navigation, as a point of reference, a marker for travel routes, fishing places, camps, hunting grounds, places of [[veneration]], [[drift fence]]s used in hunting,<ref name=ReferenceA>{{cite book |last=Gray |first=Charlotte |title=The Museum Called Canada, 25 Rooms of Wonder |date=2004 |publisher=Random House Canada |location=Toronto |isbn=978-0679312208 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/museumcalledcana00gray }}</ref> or to mark a [[Food storage|food cache]].<ref name=sfu_aboriginal>{{cite web |title=The Inuit Inukshuk |url=https://www.sfu.ca/aboriginalpeoples/inukshuk.html |publisher=Simon Fraser University |access-date=1 January 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121223083538/http://www.sfu.ca/aboriginalpeoples/inukshuk.html |archive-date=23 December 2012 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}</ref> The Iñupiat in northern Alaska used inuksuit to assist in the herding of [[Reindeer|caribou]] into contained areas for slaughter.<ref>[http://www.ethnobiology.org/conference/abstracts/pdfs/28th_abstracts.pdf 28 Ethnobiology Conference Abstracts] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080530011304/http://www.ethnobiology.org/conference/abstracts/pdfs/28th_abstracts.pdf |date=2008-05-30 }}</ref> Varying in shape and size, the inuksuit have ancient roots in [[Inuit culture]].<ref>[http://www.freespiritgallery.ca/inukshuk.htm The Inuit Inukshuk]</ref>
Historically, the most common types of inuksuit are built with stone placed upon stone. The simplest type is a single stone positioned in an upright manner.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |last=Hallendy |first=Norman |title=Inuksuk (Inukshuk) |work=[[The Canadian Encyclopedia]] |date=8 December 2020 |publisher=[[Historica Canada]] |url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/inuksuk-inukshuk}}</ref> There is some debate as to whether the appearance of human- or cross-shaped cairns developed in the [[Inuit culture]] before the arrival of European [[missionary|missionaries]] and explorers.{{citation needed|date=October 2015}} The size of some inuksuit
At [[Inuksuk Point]] (Enukso Point) on [[Baffin Island]], there are more than 100 inuksuit. The site was designated a [[National Historic Sites of Canada|National Historic Site of Canada]] in 1969.<ref name=DFHD>{{cite web|url=https://www.pc.gc.ca/apps/dfhd/page_nhs_eng.aspx?id=322 |title=Inuksuk National Historic Site of Canada|publisher=Directory of Federal Heritage Designations, [[Parks Canada]]|access-date=22 July 2021}}</ref><ref>{{CRHP|18947|Inuksuk National Historic Site of Canada}}</ref>
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