The Fast Runner film serves as a way to share the story of an Inuit legend, an evil spirit that has been passed down through generations for centuries. The intent of this film was to show viewers the balance of good and evil in the Inuit culture and the struggles of the people that follow. The Fast Runner, Atanarjuat, is fighting with the evil spirit and this film shows his encounters with the legendary spirit. The creation of this film can also be used as a way to enlighten people about the lives and culture of Native Americans in the Arctic. While watching this film I found the storyline to be very basic. I enjoyed this film because while I was watching I forgot it was a scripted film and not a documentary. At times during the film I thought …show more content…
The family resides in a permanent community with the nuclear family aside from elderly members and unmarried relatives. This occurs because the elderly and unmarried people cannot provide food and clothing for themselves. Arranged or promised marriages seemed to be formed to prevent the people from not being married and unable to provide. A male in each household seemed like the spokesperson for that family and would do the best to provide for that family. The roles for the men and women of the Inuit are similar to the gender roles of Americans today. The men did the hunting, built houses, and maintained the tools needed for survival, while the women of the Inuit did all the domestic chores, took care of the children, and made the clothing and other covers used to preserve their belongings. Aside from the headman, the elders had power and respect over the people. The elder’s power and respect is best represented by Panikpak telling Oki and Puja that they must leave Igloolik right away and never return because of their continuous pattern of unacceptable behavior. The social organization of …show more content…
In the film, Atanarjuat and Amaqjuaq went hunting for their household alone. When there was community gatherings multiple men would bring different food for everyone to share. Throughout the film, Atanarjuat and Amaqjuaq discuss the shortages of caribou in the area while the supply of seal and fish seemed steady. The textbook mentions food shortages and deaths by starvation but the film doesn't portray the food that way. Although they talk about not having certain animals to hunt in the area, they never discuss being excessively hungry or not having any food to eat. In the film, the people would eat their meat raw and then burn the fat of the animals for heat. The way they ate their food in the film seems accurate in relation with the textbook and other references. Although the film seems accurate in regards to the economics of the Inuit people, the film doesn't necessarily show how they hunted the animals that they ate. The people in the film would ride off in their dogsleds and return with seals or fish later on in the
Families assembled in spring to angle, in early winter to chase, and in the mid year they isolated to develop singular planting fields. Young men were educated in the method for the forested areas, where a man's aptitude at chasing and capacity to get by under all conditions were imperative to his family's prosperity. Ladies were prepared from their most punctual years to work perseveringly in the fields and around the family wetu, a round or oval house that was intended to be effortlessly disassembled and moved in only a couple of hours. They likewise figured out how to accumulate and handle normal foods grown from the ground, other create from the living space, and their harvests. The creation of sustenance among the Wampanoag was like that of numerous Native American social orders. Nourishment propensities were partitioned along gendered lines. Men and ladies had particular undertakings. Local ladies assumed a dynamic part in a hefty portion of the phases of nourishment creation. Since the Wampanoag depended fundamentally on products gathered from this sort of work, ladies had vital socio-political, financial, and profound parts in their groups. Wampanoag men were for the most part in charge of chasing and angling, while ladies dealt with cultivating and the social event of wild organic products, nuts, berries, shellfish, and so on. Ladies were in charge of up to seventy-five percent of all sustenance
The hunting, fishing, and trapping way of life is one of the main threads of continuity that has made the forest important to Cree life. How would they survive without there hunters? They wouldn’t, no food for the children or even clothing for their bodies couldn’t be possible without the job of the
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.
(Higgins, 2008) The Beothuk had mainly a marine diet consisting largely of harp seal as well as other various types of fish, their diet also included birds. (Pastore) The island was rich and abundant in marine food sources but had limited food sources inland. When the Europeans settled along the coastal shore the Beothuk were forced to move inland and so they adjusted their hunting practices and lifestyle to inland practices such as hunting caribou. (Higgins, 2008) Many Beothuk as a result were malnourished and starving. (Pastore) Due to resources being scarce and irregular provision sources the Beothuk would jerk meat such as fish, seal flesh, venison and birds to preserve it. (Howley, 1915) The Beothuk also made sausages with seal guts stuffed with seal flesh, seal fat, eggs and a variety of other ingredients. (Howley,
Women who live in a matriarch society are equal to men due to the respect they receive. Men in a matriarch sort of become `the other.' The respect and equality can be seen in Native Americans. By examining Native American women's roles will show their equality with men. Women have "knowledge of weaving, agriculture, and animal husbandry" (9). They also look after children and the household. Therefore, "Navajo women are central forces in their families and communities" (1). They are important with
Seal and Caribou skins were used to make clothing, and occasional feasts were held after hunts. Whales were hunted during the spring in umiaks. Because whale hunting was of such high importance, hunting gear was cleaned and Inuit women would make new clothing for for the men before a hunt.
As suggested earlier, small bodies of water that may have been present provided the tribe a source of drinking water. Since they have terms for cow, pig, calf, and sheep but no terms for beef, pork, veal, leather, or mutton, it is most likely that the tribe did not slaughter these animals for food or clothing. The tribe lived among these animals, and one might assume they valued them as living creatures. Based on the focus on grains, one might also assume that they are vegetarians based on the provided data; however, while they did not eat red meat, the possible presence of rivers and lakes suggests the availability of fresh water fish.
Due to the dependence upon naturally occurring sources of food, which are not always found in the same abundance as in agricultural cultivation, hunter-gatherers are usually found in bands of less than fifty people and in areas with low population density. This subsistence strategy
They hunted things like caribou, oxen, and polar bears on land. They also fished alot. Family was very important to the Inuit. They would live with 6-8 other families and hunt together too. They did not have a real “chief” or
Overall I found the movie to be quite interesting and exciting at times but a bit slow in others. The story itself was very clear to me and didn’t cause any confusion. It had a good flow also, just as you were on the verge of falling into boredom with a scene they switched it up on you to keep you
This documentary has a voice which is the most important part of any movie, furthermore, it has it own way of living and breathing and speaking to
This joint family, like any social organization, must face problems such as acceptable division of work, relationships and specific family roles. These familial relationships are managed on the basis of a secular hierarchical principle. In fact, all Indians owe respect and obedience to the head of the family, who usually is the father or the oldest man of the family community. In The Gift of a Bride: A Tale of Anthropology, Matrimony and Murder by Nanda and Gregg, it is explained that, “females [are] placed under the perpetual guardianship of first their fathers and elder brothers, then their husbands.” (Nanda & Gregg 22) Thus, all the spending decisions, studies and profession, or marriage, are exclusively the responsibility of the father after the possible discussions with the other men of the family. Age and sex are the basic principles of this hierarchical system. The eldest sons enjoy greater unchallenged authority than their cadets. Of course men have more authority than women, but older married women have an important role within the family. In fact, the authority of a woman depends on the rank of her husband inside the group. Traditionally, the wife of the patriarch rules over domestic affairs and has considerable power over the other women in the community, especially her daughters- in-law.
The Native women were also responsible for raising the family. While being married to a trader, the wife was supposed to act as one of their wives from back home. Usually the wife/mother would wake up early in the morning and start the day such by making food or even preparing the furs for them to be sent back to Europe. Most women would also catch the food for the family, while their husbands were occupied with the trades. They were also responsible for raising their daughters and teaching them the general skills of a woman. The sons would also stay with their mothers at home. However, when they became men they would follow their fathers and learn the business.
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
Family is one of the hardest words to define. There are many definitions and thoughts of what a family consists of. When one accepts the definition of the census family given by Statistics Canada then a family becomes “a married couple and the children, if any… a couple living common law and the children, if any… a lone parent with at least one child living in the same dwelling… grandchild living with grandparents but no parents present… Census families can be opposite or same sex and children may be adopted, by birth, or marriage and all members must be living in the same dwelling” (Baker 2014). With family being such a difficult term to agree on, the creation of a complex study of family life emerges. The factors that influence family life are put into three theory categories; Social Structure, Interpersonal Factors, as well as Ideas, Global Culture, and Public Discourse.