The Netsilik's Native Dialect

The article “the inuit paradox” starts off with an Inupiat woman describing the most common foods that she consumed growing up in an Inuit community in which foraging is necessary for survival. She describes that the traditional Inuit diet focused primarily on meat that was foraged from the environment.

The Inuit people live at a unique location. They live in the far North and into Canada. “There is a Canadian village, named Grise Fjord, just 500 miles from the North Pole” (Sontella 7). The Inuit people

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.

The artwork is different and unique. They made artwork of arctic animals, people, spirits. Like, polar bears, the chief, and the gods they believe in. The housing is also different. They live in igloos, tents, and Inuvialuit houses. Igloos are made of ice. Tents are made of wood and animal hide. Also, Inuvialuit houses are made of wood, dirt, and hides. They also ate different foods. The Inuit ate Hooded Seal, Beluga Whale, Walrus, Narwhal, Caribou, Polar Bear, Musk Oxen, Arctic Fox, Arctic Hare, and the Arctic Bird. The Inuit are different.

One of the reasons is because their language is the Inuit-Aluet. The Inuit lived in mostly tipis because they were waterproof and weather-hardy. The Inuit’s art is much different than all of the others because it is made from different materials. This shows just how many ways the Inuit are different.

Tsimshian, which means “ People inside of the Skeena River”, is one of the coastal tribe in the Pacific Northwest Coast. This tribe distribute in two main areas, which are British Columbia, Canada and Alaska in the US. According to that, they have a different group name for each location. For example, Tsimshian indigenous who live surrounded the mouth of the Skeena River and nearly the sea; the Gitskan who live further up the indigenous people place; the Nishga who stay the basin of the Nass River. Overall, those locations bring a huge benefit to them like profuse food, natural resources. However, the climate is temperate with cold and in the winter, it’s rainy. The Tsimshian tribe speaks Penutian language, which is known

She refers to her walk as a meshkanu, it is a healing exploration, where she can take time to pay attention to all the gifts of nature (Black Kettle Films, 2013). In Nunatsiavut, Inuit people see walking on the sea ice as their medicine, because it gives them a sense of freedom (Durkalec, Furgal, Skinner & Sheldon, 2015). While both healing methods have strong ties to nature, they are still two unique acts strongly tied to the individuals’ community

The Netsilik are an indigenous community that are descendants of the Thule culture, they reside North of Hudson Bay, just above the Arctic circle. They call themselves the Netsilik or “people of the seal” because of their unusual diet (Young, 1970). In his video Young states that, “The winter months for the Netsilik people starts in September and last right up until June, during these months the temperatures can range anywhere from 30-50 degrees below 0” (1970). During the 2-3 months of warmer weather, “the summer tundra remains wet, since permafrost not far below the surface prevents drainage” (Netsilik, n.d). This causes the Netsilik to migrate frequently.

2The Inuits have to understand the natural patterns of the wild life so...so it is easier to hunt prey like seals,caribou, and walrus Because there is ice that can expose them. But global warming is disrupting these patterns.

For the Inuit, who have survived for thousands of years in one of the harshest climates on Earth, food is the connection between the past and today's culture, according to the report." (Los Angeles Times) This article discusses how climate change is impacting the environment and food supply of Alaska's Inuit. For those who don't know what Inuit means I’ll explain the definition of Inuit. Inuit- a member of an indigenous people of northern Canada and parts of Greenland and Alaska. In comparison, is that Lisa Rathke from Burlington free press says that “More women are taking up the sport of hunting to stock their freezers with local foods and as cultural influences, including movie heroines and marketers, make it more socially acceptable.” Therefore, what Lisa is telling us that not

To control territory, individuals need to control travel corridors. In northern Canada, this means controlling access to waterways (Speck 1931:577). If people can control a travel way, then they can monitor access to resources. The control of fisheries directly relates to the control of travel routes (Pike 1896:213-214; Pénard 1929:20-24). Social conflicts and their resolution can evidence territorial frontiers. Throughout the oral traditional, there are instances of tense to aggressive conflicts between Denesųłiné and Inuit that highlight cultural frontiers (Janes 1973:39-54; 1974:7-10). The oral traditions mark the expansion and contraction of territory (Pike 1917:186-203; Smith and Burch 1979:78-93). Instead of borders, frontiers are areas of social interaction at the meeting of two or more cultures (Barth 1969:15-37). Inuit encroached on the Denesųłiné because of a re-alignment of their seasonal rounds during the fur trade. To generalize, in

Throughout the novel Native Tongue by Suzette Haden Elgin the characters are living in a futurist world. In this world there is a strict hierarchy in which the linguist families rule the non-linguist and the men control the women. This hierarchy creates tensions between the men and women and causes disunity among the male characters, whereas it creates a sense of unity for the female characters throughout the novel.

The Journals of Knud Rasmussen documents the encounter between three Danish explorers, and an Inuit community in Igloolik during the 1920’s. It focuses

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,

Have you ever wondered about how it would feel to live in an igloo, and have to constantly travel and move with a nomadic tribe? If you're like me, than you probably have. Igloos have always been interesting to me, from their dome shape, to the people behind them, I've always wanted to learn more about igloos. While researching, I found may interesting facts. For example, the Inuit didn't have a formal marriage ceremony.