The Cultural Niche: Why Social Learning Is Essential For Human Adaptation

In conclusion, the Cree and Inuit peoples appear to have many differences. But in actuality their way of life is very similar. They have both just adapted to their environment and learned how to best use what is available to them. They were both affected by the arrival of Europeans, in positive and negative ways, but they adapted. They both use their artwork to tell stories, and animals play a big part in their heritage and

The Inuit people, with their diets mostly consisting of protein and fat, suffered little from major dietary health problems that we are so used to seeing today. This might come as a bit of a shock to most of us growing up constantly seeing the food pyramid and being taught that that the only way to stay healthy is to consume a balanced diet of grains, vegetables, meat, eggs and dairy.

Many people, when they think of Native Americans, will think of dancing and strange rituals, which is not the case with the Inuit Tribe. The Inuit Tribe are located in the far Arctic North. Also known as the Eskimo, the Inuit people have adapted to live in the freezing temperatures. They live by some of the most common ways Native Americans do. They practice not to waste anything they kill and also practice making arts. The Inuit Tribe have many ways to survive in the wild even with the hardships and scarce resources around them (Sontella 5).

The people of Inuit, Yup’ik, Unangan, and other Native Americans Indians have lived in the harshest environment on Earth from Siberia, across Alaska and Canada, and to the East of Greenland along the coast of the Bering Sea and Arctic Ocean. From Labrador to the interior of Alaska the Athapaskan, Cree, Innu, and other Native’s people lived in the subarctic region of the land. These people had the ability to depend on their years of knowledge of the sky, ice, ocean, land, and animal behaviors in order to survive. Living in the area that was vast and dealing with seasonal dynamic extremes these Native people of the Artic and Subarctic had a honorable endurance for an millennia of exchanged goods, ceremonies, and shared feasts with neighboring goods that has help them throughout the years.

Culture is a way of deciding who we are, it is not something we are born with but something we learn as we grow older. Aboriginals take a lot of significance towards the topic of culture as it is their way of living, and a broad description of who they are, and how they

The Canadian Inuit were a domestic, tribal, egalitarian society in the 19th century. And some cultural changes occurred; making the Inuit adapt and become more aware of other resources they could get hold of, for gathering and hunting for food. In the 19th Century, the Europeans discovered the Inuit culture and this provided new resources for the Inuit to gain an easier way to gather and hunt for food. But because of the European influence, the Inuit’s culture changed to adapt with European Individuals living in their land, and European resources that had been made access to them. By this cultural change in the 19th century there was “an increased diversity in the social structure and material culture of the Labrador Inuit society” (Auger, 1993:27). The Labrador Inuit was a significant Inuit Society to have an ethnographical research made to understand a little bit more to; how the Inuit was affected and how the food process was changed. It will also be discussed the significant ideas and techniques that the Inuit used to gather and hunt for resources.

In the film “Eskimo Fight for Life” the Inuit winter camp has a defined social structure. From generation to generation the roles of men and women remain the same. The most important role for men is to hunt to feed the camp. They hunt seal which is a symbol within the camp because it conveys the meaning of survival. The women are responsible for supplying the camp with the necessary clothing such as fur coats and boots. The women also teach their daughters these skills so that they can make their own clothes and boots. The Inuit camp also has their own language which enables them to communicate with one another. With the use of language, the elders, especially the grandmothers, can tell the children stories. These stories are one way they pass

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 don’t normally use wood for carving. Instead, they use materials like whalebone, stone, soapstone, bone, and ivory. Also, the Inuit live in the northern part of Canada, Alaska, and Greenland. The Haida and Iroquois live in the southern part of Canada. Since the Inuit live in such a cold climate, they layer up and wear tons of clothing to protect them from the harsh environment and cold of the Arctic, but the Iroquois and Haida don’t layer up a ton. In fact, the Haida men wear no clothing during the summer months! See? The Inuit are different from the Haida and Iroquois in many ways.

The Canadian Arctic are known as the Inuit, which they are commonly known as Eskimos. The Inuit is a subculture of a Native American culture and they are losing their homelands due to weather changes. Even though the Inuit were the last Native American people to arrive they were one of the first people in Canada. They settled in Canada and they made their own customs. They have many different types of elements like of religion, art, clothings, and customs and traditions.

Not only did the Inuit people of the Artic adapt biologically, they did so culturally as well. They adapted culturally in three main ways via clothing, houses and living in small groups. The Inuit were clothing that would best suit their environment. The type of clothing worn was intended to keep in heat in addition to not expose any skin. They were clothes that weren’t loose and fit around the wrists as well as the ankles

The inspiring myths,fast skilled hunting,and bold hard crafting.There are many tribes that lived/live in canada other than the Inuit,Haida,and Iroquois.These tribes are all alike and different in all kinds of ways such as design,myths,food,and so forth.The Inuit,Haida,and Iroquois all have things alike such as housing,and differences to like food,myths,and tools.

Firstly, here is a little taste of the Inuit’s history. The people of the arctic are known to be called, “The Eskimo’s” back in the old times, The Inuit people speak and write their traditional Inuktitut language, and they are a group of First Nations people who live throughout the Arctic region in Canada. The Inuk culture seems to be well adapted to their homes in the Arctic. They know how to survive on their traditional land and rely their resources very well. The Inuk women typically spend their days looking after their children, making clothing, working on animal skins, and cooking. The Inuk women have a specific way to do things in their culture, for instance, they make their clothing in a unique way by making each outfit thick enough to survival the cold days, or they would make layers of each clothing so they can keep warm. All pieces of their clothing are essential based on seasons. The Anoraks and pants were likely knee

When the Europeans first came into contact with the Inuits, they spread diseases which killed many of their kind. As time went by, outsiders changed the Inuits way of life (Santella 35). Airbases and radio stations built in the Arctic changed the Inuit’s nomadic way of life by influencing the creation of permanent settlements near these areas. The creation of schools and health care facilities were also very influential in the change of the Inuit culture (“Inuit Culture, Traditions, and History”). People from other countries had a major impact on the Inuits

The human person was not exactly what I was expecting when walking into the class. To be honest, I really didn’t know what to expect all I knew is that we were going to talk about human development which we did and one of the books was Lives Across Cultures: Cross-Cultural Human Development, but I never thought that we were going to talk about The Future Is Mestizo: Life Where Cultures Meet and how they migrated to the U.S. from Mexico or the Resurrection Song: African-American Spirituality, where it talks about the African culture and life they had when they were taken into slavery. I have to say that these book were actually really good. I learned something each week when reading these books.