The Inuit As A Subculture Of A Native American Culture

The Inuit Tribe has uses for everything they kill or harvest. Inuit women would use animal skins to make clothing and blankets. They would also use animal skins to make kayaks and boats ( Sontella 20). The Inuits would also make sculptures out of animal bone. In Figure 1 below, there is a sculpture made out of animal bone or a certain type of

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.

The Inuit peoples shown in the film live in the Artic, where temperatures average -30 degrees Celsius and the land is barren. This extreme weather greatly impacts both the material and non-material culture of their society to ensure survival. For instance, this barren landscape forces the Inuit to make igloos out of snow in order to insulate themselves from the harsh winds, resulting in a community effort

Chesterfield Inlet is another one of the main communities. Chesterfield Inlet is a smaller community with a population of about 400. The inuit woman are known for their arts and crafts. The craft vary from a wide range of things. Everything is handmade with jewels and wonderful designs. The inuit men are known for their seafaring skills. They fish and hunt for their food. There is a variety of activities such as hunting, bird watching and whale watching. The Inuit people like to surround themselves with the wildlife and culture. For tourism they have experts with you make sure you're safe.

Everything about the lives of the Inuit is influenced by the cold tundra climate in which they live. The kind of homes they lived in were igloos. The typical materials for making homes such as wood and mud are hard to find in the frozen tundra of the Arctic. The Inuit learned to make warm homes out of snow and ice for the winter. During the summer they would make homes from animal skin stretched over a

So first of all some of their artwork is because of how they build it and the supplies you need for it. For example their carvings are unique some how because they all use different materials that have different edges and points like the Inuit uses a knife is called a ulu. Another reason that these tribe are different are on how they dress for example the haida men wear shirts and leggings that are made from animal hide and skin. The next reason why they are different is because they have different celebrations that they celeberate like the sioux celebrate on when they have something special like a baby is going to be born. And finally that they are differents is because of their religion and if they have a religion like the inuit has a religion of catholic and crichin. Another example of how their religions they have is if they believe in their own gods and if they just believe in one god that might made or not made us. Is catholic. they can also be different because of their skin color and if they have a lot of things they do like if they play

2.The Inuit have needed to understand the natural patterns of Arctic wildlife. They have to know so they can be able to get food. 38:07 minutes in the video it say “It’s a great spot. Surely there are karabos around here because there's plenty of food for karabos over there.” The Inuit have to understand the natural patterns of Arctic because if they don’t then they can’t find food for their tribe.

Collectively, First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples constitute Aboriginal peoples in Canada, Indigenous peoples of the Americas, or first peoples. "First Nations"' came into common usage in the 1980s to replace the term "Indian band" in referring to groups of Indians with common government and

Inuit Identity is a complex and ultimately impossible to narrow into one specific idea. Inuit culture, like any culture, is varied and changes constantly. However, it is possible to observe some of the complexities of Inuit culture through the development of Inuit Art. Sculptures and carvings have been a major part of Inuit art, and have been intertwined with ideas of Inuit Identity. Therefore, Contemporary Inuit Sculpture is demonstrative of Inuit Culture. Sculpture developed from the Inuit’s first contact with Quallunaat artists, it feature scenes of everyday life, has a distinct style in each region and has evolved with time and influence.

Art and society are closely linked together. From the point of view of the social history of art, the artwork is a product of a kind of social relation. Inuit culture is an important part of Canadian culture, but there has a big difference between Arctic and other regions. According to Culler, “what is crucial is not any particular form or content, but differences, which enable it so signify” (Culler, 1997, p58). It unique geographical environment and humanity history background has formed unique traditional region characteristic. This essay will discuss how Inuit artist Pitaloosie Saila through art to makes a continuation of Inui culture, and how historical and personal experiences makes her unique highly personal style. Pitaloosie was

Would you ever want to live in a cold, harsh environment and still have to live for over a decade. Well that's what the people of the Cree and Inuit had to do. In this Essay you will learn special things that the Cree and Inuit have in common and different things about them. They are the differences in population and territory control, also the similarities in language.

The Inuit and Cree are different in numerous ways, but language is a massive one. Inuit speak different languages like Inuktitut, Inupiaq, Kalaallisut, and etc. They speak languages I can barely pronounce! Cree on the other hand, speak languages you might know like English, and French. They also speak the native Cree language. Cree and Inuit speak different languages, VERY different languages, that is.

The geography of the Inuits affected their culture by first, food. For example, the economic activity map affected how they got their food. Alaska and some of Canada is listed for using their land for hunting and gathering. Hunting and Gathering has two parts, the hunting which kills the animal or any other mammal; and the gathering which creates food for the people/person. The Inuits got their food, by hunting and gathering. The Inuits lived by an sea, Bering Sea which is on the Physical Features Map of Canada and Alaska, which was the main food source for Inuits. A lot of fish, whale, and different types of mammals were the things that the Inuits ate. The Geography and Physical Features of where the Inuits got their main food source. On

Nanook of the North (Robert J. Flaherty, 1922) is a silent docudrama that was released to demonstrate the way that the Inuit people live in day to day life. To a person in the western world in the 1920’s they would believe that this is how they live, dress and how they survive in day to day situations. In fact, what Flaherty filmed, was scripted and the Inuit family we follow were not actually family. Flaherty also decided to have the Inuit people dressed as they would previously in history, where as they were dressing like western world civilisation in the 1920’s. This could have been due to wanting to make the Inuit’s come across as a new and exotic civilisation, compared to the “ordinary” people.

The word Eskimo comes from an Algonquian language and means eater of raw meat. The Eskimo, now known as the Inuit, hunted sea mammals and land mammals. Among the animals they hunted were seal, whale, oxen, caribou, and polar bear. They also fished for arctic char. It was rare that they would have enough fuel to cook the meat, so sometimes they preserved the meat by drying it. “However, most of the meat was eaten raw.” (Findlay.) The Inuit like most Indigenous peoples believed that all living and nonliving things had a spirit, this belief is called animism. “The only people who had enough power to control the spirits were the powerful religious leaders called the Shamans or 'Angakoks'. Shamans used charms and dances as a means to communicate with the spirit world.”(Findlay.) One of the major spirits in Inuit culture is Sedna. Sedna is known as the Goddess of the Sea. “The belief was that if Inuit made her happy, she would continue to provide them with food.”(Findlay.) If they kept the spirits happy, the spirits would keep them happy. So,