Canada’s 56,000 Inuit live in mostly small isolated communities of fewer than 1,000 people ranging from the Northwest Territories to the eastern coastal regions of northern Labrador. Iqaluit, the capital of Nunavut boasts a population of 7,000 to 8,000. And well over 4,000 Inuit now live in southern urban areas including St. John’s, Montreal, Ottawa, Winnipeg, and Edmonton.
One of the most pressing issues for the Inuit people today would be the deterioration of their land due to extreme climate change. Warmer climates mean melting ice caps, rising sea levels, and the changing of animal’s migration patterns. The rapid retreat of the sea ice that has defined the Arctic’s ecosystem for thousands of years is threatening the existence and movements
The Netsilik (the people of the seal) are Inuit’s that live in the Canadian Arctic north of Hudson Bay above the Arctic Circle. With the sea freezing in September and not thawing out till the end of July living is very difficult. In the mid-nineteenth century, they numbered about five hundred. As time progressed, their population grew up to 4,000. The Netsilik’s native dialect is that of the “Inuit-Inupiaq” (What when how) which is a branch of the “Eskaleut” (WWH) language family. In the past, they lived in small nomadic villages comprised of igloos that traveled in groups or extended families. However, due to contact with other cultures, they have started to utilize things such as snowmobiles, firearms and other technologies instead of their
They live on the land in question, and are considered to be a nation within a nation, which would mean that if the land was taken over by a country other than Canada they would not identify with the new beliefs being brought in, as Canada has let them freely practice their culture, integrating it into the Canadian identity. Another issue for the Inuit is modernization of the land, which is what Russia is trying to do by drilling for the oil resources. This goes against what the Inuit stand for, which is preserving the land and resources that lie within. If Canada pursues their interest in the Arctic, then the indigenous people will be able to stay where they are, preserve their culture, and care for their
The inuit have to understand the natural patterns of Arctic wildlife because of global warming. Global warming is causing problems because the number
During the summer seasons, Inuit would mainly hunt caribou. Traditionally, a caribou hunt occurred in the fall. In the southern-most parts of Inuit territory, salmon was hunted during that time. In the winter, when the ice was solid, kayaks were used for seal hunting.
myth that had been around for years on how the catlike panther used to be a beautiful native woman.
The inuit, haida and iroquois are all hunters. They hunt their food down. Their main food is bison or buffalo, they follow the bisons and when the bison stop to graze the indians sneak up and kill their meal. All of the tribes live in canada. They migrated from pangea, the giant continent that was all 7 continents combined into one big continent. They all started in Africa and they started migrating to where their food was going. Their food was leading them to canada. They followed animals like mammoths spreading all over the world and they started making tribes and finding different ways of life.
Soapstone is a soft material that is easy to be carved. However the stone breaks very easily due to this soft nature, This week we are learning how to carve soapstone pendants and jewelry, and we have already discovered several problems in the carving process. Thus it is so fascinating to see what the Inuit culture has done with this type of stone.
Even though both tribes are alike there are still many differences.In this chapter I will tell you about the Inuit tribe.One of these tipes differences is there myths.The reason this is different is because an example of one is it’s about a polar bear and why there are constellations. Another difference is were they live in Canada. The.The Inuit live closer to the north and arctic than the Dene people do. This proof that even though the two groups are alike the Inuit still have many differences.
The Inuit have a Bladder Feast, which is a act of respect for the seals they catch during the year (Institution and Smithsonian). Lots of the Inuit culture is about them giving respect to the animals they kill and they use every part of that animal. The Inuit would hunt animals like bison, whales, fish, and arctic bears. The Inuit people have mastered the skills of survival in the arctic region. They use many tools in order to hunt. They use spears for catching whales and they hunt in groups on land. Over the years they have improved their ways of hunting and building their
The Inuit are very spiritual people and they do not believe in a lot of the same things we do. They believe in something called Animism, all living and nonliving things have a spirit. When someone or something dies they believe that things spirit goes to the spiritual world. They only people powerful enough to talk or communicate with these spirits are religious leaders, Shamans or “Angakoks”. The way these religious leader speak with them is through dances or charms. They wear masks and clothes of an animal because they believe it helps them to communicate with them better. Not all spirits are good ones, when the weather was bad or there was an illness going around they believed it to be a displeased spirit, but the Inuit used guidelines to try to make the spirit happy. There was five rules that need to be followed in order to please the spirits, 1) women are not allowed to sew caribou skins on the inside of there igloo on sea ice in the winter. 2) Inuit can not eat sea mammal and land mammal at the same meal. 3) A knife used to kill whales had to wrapped in sealskin, not caribou skin. 4) After killing a seal melted snow had to dripped into its mouth to quench the spirit's thirst. 5) The Inuit saved the bladder of the hunted because they believed that’s where the spirit was found inside. One of the most important spirits was Sedna, The Goddess of the Sea. She provided them with food from the sea, which made the Inuit most happy.
The Canadian native aboriginals are the original indigenous settlers of North Canada. They are made up of the Inuit, Metis and the First nation. Through archeological evidence old crow flats seem to the earliest known settlement sites for the aboriginals. Other archeological evidence reveals the following characteristics of the Aboriginal culture: ceremonial architecture, permanent settlement, agriculture and complex social hierarchy. A number of treaties and laws have been enacted amongst the First nation and European immigrants throughout Canada. For instance the Aboriginal self-government right was a step to integrate them in Canadian society. This allows for a chance to manage cultural, historical, economic, political and healthcare of the indigenous people communities (Asch 21).
European explorers typically viewed Native Americans and Inuit (formerly called “Eskimo”) peoples as uncivilized savages who could be ignored, treated as curiosities, or manipulated to meet the goals of businessmen, clerics, scientists, or politicians. Civil interaction with native peoples was pursued only when it was critical to the success of European ventures such as procuring gold, silver, fur, and land. These exploitative or antagonistic relationships with native groups arose from ethnocentric attitudes which to some degree still persist in both public and private arenas. But today, we understand the importance of looking at primary sources, both written and archaeological, for a richer and more complete narrative about what such earlier encounters meant to the participants.
The Inuit developed a way of life well-suited to their Arctic environment, based on fishing; hunting seals, whales, and walruses in the ocean; and hunting caribou, polar bears, and other game on land. They lived in tents or travelled in skin-covered boats called kayaks and umiaks in summer, and stayed in
The Inuit people are also known as Eskimos. They have lived in the Artic area; the Tundra, where the climate is cold and too severe for trees to grow, for over a thousand years. Over the thousands of years living in the Artic environment, the Inuit people have adapted culturally and biologically. Among the biological adaptations, their bodies altered permitting them to adapt to the environment in five ways. In addition to biological adaptations, the Inuit people also adapted culturally, changing how they dressed, the type of home they lived in, and the number of individuals in their groups.
I have never heard of the claim the Inuit languages have more words than in the English language. With the issue of determining whether this statement is true or not, I believe consulting an expert in the Inuit language is the best approach. Also, for a word to be considered different from another it must have a slightly different meaning or be used in a different context.