Social Structure In The Film Eskimo Fight For Life

The book The Netsilik Eskimo was written by author Asen Balikci. Waveland Press Incorporated published the book in 1970 and later revised it in 1989. The publication date of this ethnography is important to note because of the history of the Netsilik tribe. When the Europeans reached North America and Canada in the late fifteenth century and early sixteenth century, the Netsilik group remained unaffected by settlers because of their harsh climate and isolate region in the northern part of Canada near Hudson Bay. Numerous expeditions during the nineteenth century did reach the Netsilik land, however, because considerable amounts of people were hoping to find a northwest passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific oceans in order to shorten the

Nanook of the North is an interesting film that documents the lifestyle of an Inuit family in Quebec, Canada. Robert J. Flaherty, the writer, producer and director of the film makes sure to film every aspect of the family’s daily struggles and duties. With nearly everything but cold weather in limited supply, it becomes very obvious that every aspect in their lives serves a specific role aimed towards survival; they have no space extraneous luxuries.

To touch on how the Eskimos thought that the white culture was superior and many had already assimilated is shown in a subtle touch provided by the first chapter that showed how accepting the Eskimos were to the close proximity of the whites. In page 6, the author writes, "Nowadays they wore short dresses of flowered cotton, over which floated sweaters as shapeless as sacks", The effect of something as petty as clothing may not seem like much but it contains a larger effect than one would expect. These clothes originated from western culture, if the whites were not present the Eskimos would have been perfectly content with what they had "parkas and pretty sealskin boots of former times"(Pg 6). This can infer that the Eskimos already had a mindset of the western

Her parents were given the names Bradford and Frieda and used Elavgak as their last name. Lillian had four brothers and three sisters; she was one of the youngest of the family. She was telling me about how they lived at Qalluvik during the winter, and then spent the summer at their summer camp at Teshekpuk Lake. They travelled by dog teams and sailboats in the summer on the ocean and rivers. In the interview Lillian said, “We never used outboard motors, only sailboats to go up the rivers. Sometimes we used the dog teams to help pull the boat along the river. When were younger, we use to walk with the dog teams along the river to lighten the boat. I remember it use to be so tiresome walking.” They made do with what was available to them. She told me a story of how her father would make a summer camping stove out of a 55-gallon drum. She said, “He would flatten the 55-gallon drum, and hammer it down after he took the ends off. He would have big metal scissors to cut the drum and somehow made a summer camping stove. There would be a chamber for the wood and a chamber for the oven part. My mom use to make biscuits for us with this summer stove.” They used caribou skin sleeping

Living back in time with the inuits was very different. They had different jobs, different shelters, different food and many more different aspects of life. When looking at many different maps, I see that the geography affects the inuits and how they live. The first map I looked at was the vegetation zones map. Most of Canada is covered with the color green. Green means coniferous forest, or lots of pine trees. When we look at the tools inuits used, we can see that they are made of wood. The inuits used the trees around them to help make tools, and with those tools, the got their food.

When, talking about the challenges the Inuit and the Haida faced they are almost completely different. Since both tribes live in a survival area, their struggle to live is constant. One challenge that the Inuit that the Haida does not is the weather, which consist of below 0゜temperatures at almost every season. One challenge that the Haida have to face that the Inuit does not have to is hunting. Sure hunting is still dangerous for the Inuit, but what i’m trying to get at is when the Haida hunt whales. When they hunt it’s always a live or die scenario every time they whale hunt. It’s also even worse for the hunter’s family if

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 Inuits have a strong bond because they they spend time with each other and they do almost everything for each other such as hunting food, technology, and clothing. On the 4th minute the video states, “She is trying to collect enough seals to feed her sick dogs.” This proves that she will need to hunt more seals to feed her dogs. Her peers and/or elders made the technology and weapons for her to hunt for food. She is also hunting for food for her dogs, not all for herself. In conclusion, the Inuits have a strong bond because they spend time with each other and they do almost everything for each other.

There are many different ways the Eskimo children are raised to prepare them for their roles in the group for their adult lives. There are also many different factors of sociology that can be seen in their culture. Some of the more core traditions and cultural methods that can be seen with children is simply how they are raised, which is vastly different from Western life. Norms are rules and expectations by which society guides the behavior of its members. The most obvious example of these norms can be seen in this culture are that different members of every family or group are expected to have different roles and fulfill those duties. Men are usually the hunters,

Why would the Inuit have needed to understand the natural patterns of Arctic wildlife so they know when and how to hunt for food,The beginning of the video says “Hunting,fishing,waiting,always waiting for the animal that will feed them.” The text supports my answer because

The Inuits have a strong bond because they stay together. In the video it states “The radio act like a web that brings them together.” This text states that the radio helps bring the family together. In conclusion, the Inuits listen to the radio to create a greater bond. In part 34:37.

The bear plays a major role when it comes to Inuit art such as paintings, sculptures and drawings. The bear is a representation of spirit animal, for Inuits they mainly represent as a power animal for females or could be also represent safety and strength. As many cultures there’s many different meaning for symbolic figure, the bear is also represents an elder because the bear gives guidance just like how the elder helps to guide the family. The polar bear also represents the environment that they lived, the polar bear symbolizes the harsh cold weather that the Inuits lived in such as the arctic.The sculptures of the polar bears were made out of clay and rocks typically because it was easily found in the environment that they lived in. Another

The reason inuits have such a strong bond is because they rely on each other to provide food, water, clothes, but also because they care about one another and are family. An unbreakable force.The video says, “We the inuits, are part of one big family.”(28.35)They love and care about everyone and and just like us, their family is the strongest bond they have.The inuits rely on each other to provide and love each other.

In most traditional communities the holders of the stories and teachings are disappearing. The elders and older generation are slowly transitioning from this world, and with them they are bringing the lessons they have acquired over their lives (Porter, 2008). Though, many teach what they have been taught many elders face issues of mobility and not enough time to deliver these messages, which is something that The activism among Indigenous Elders is tremendous, but the issue lies with the hesitance of the younger generations to pick up and delivery this knowledge forward (King, 2003). Using the media, the words and thoughts of generations can be preserved, and this can be in the language or not, these words can be written in articles or kept for videos.

Storytelling is a form of education as it teaches the listener about skills that they would need during their lifespan in a sense it would leave a form of a finger print. Boydens Through Black Spruce and Three Day Road use examples of storytelling to portray the characters struggles so the reader learns about the journey that Aboriginal people had to make to maintain their identity. Telling a story may often leave a mark on the person you may have connected with, and when that connection is made it begins to show the struggles that people have endured for thousands of years, an example would be the indigenous people and more importantly the Cree. The Cree have resisted the influences of the white culture but have been set back by the horrendous ideas of “taking the Indian out of the child” by putting them into residential schools all across Canada. Boydens books are examples of stories that others have told, whether fictional or not, that hold crucial facts about the portrayed good and the hidden evil, it is up to the reader to see which one has had a more physical impact on them. Boyden uses both traditional and modern storytelling techniques to present the the struggle of the main characters as they try to hold onto their indigenous identity as they resist the influences of white culture.