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    Inuit Research Paper

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    The Inuit is losing their way of life really fast and their home is vanishing before their eyes it is sad because this is their home and they have lived there for thousands of years.The Inuit also known as the Eskimos are a group that lives in the arctic and they have lived there for thousands of years.Because of many things their way of life is changing and they see what happens first then it will then happen us but their life is changing because of…pollution,unpredictability of the arctic,people

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    personalities can be or cannot be observed in a group of pre-teens from the Inuit children from northern Canada who will be fluent in the Inuktitut language. The questionnaire will be prepared based on the level of literacy and understanding of the Inuit children. The SPSS software will be used to assess the Big Five (Five Factor Model) Personality Factors (Costa & McCrae, 1995). The questionnaires will be translated in the Inuit language and will be consisting of 25-items with a 5 point Likert scale

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    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

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    Igloo History

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    Bruemmer]temporary winter home or hunting-ground dwelling of Canadian and Greenland Inuit (Eskimos). The term igloo, or iglu, from Eskimo igdlu (“house”), is related to Iglulik, a town, and Iglulirmiut, an Inuit people, both on an island of the same name. The igloo, usually made from blocks of snow and dome-shaped, is used only in the area between the Mackenzie River delta and Labrador where, in the summer, Inuit live in sealskin or, more recently, cloth tents. To build the igloo, the builder takes

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    Inuits are a community that originated 4000 years ago. The first inuit group is the Paleo-Eskimos. Inuits live in 53 different Arctic and Northern communities in Canada but also in several Southern cities. 22% live outside of the Inuits Nunagat (homeland) while the other part lives inside of the homeland. Pre-Dorset culture is said to begin when the Paleo-Eskimos settled on the islands of the Canadian archipelago and northern Greenland. They had winter very difficult because at that time, they had

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    ties, with a common culture and dialect, typically having a recognized leader.” (Tribe.) The Inuit formerly known as the Eskimo are still alive today whereas the Aztec were conquered in 1519. Both tribes have different foods, taboos, and religions. The two tribes also have many similarities. 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

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    What or who is considered an Indian is something that many people have asked. But is there one clear concise answer? No, there is not one answer that can define what an Indian is. This could range from person to person and how they define themselves or this could be a definition of what the acts define them as. The government prefers to go with the definitions of the acts. Not what people define them as. If you say your First Nations but according to the act your not defined as an Indian then you

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    may invoke thoughts of polar bears, penguins, and Eskimos, however this region has a history of exploitation. Since the 1940's, the Inuit people (Eskimo is considered a derogatory term by locals) have been forced to assimilate to Canadian laws and language. Prior to the arrival of the Canadian officials and their economic and law systems and infrastructures, the Inuit lived in small groups off the tundra. Their economic system was one of trade and they spoke Inuktitut, which was only an oral language

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    The inuits have a strong bond because the children learn from watching their parents , girls learned how to dry hides and make mittens from their mothers . Also the inuits were with each other from the beginning to the end and when they go hunting they have to get a lot depending on how big the family is . In the video it states “ Children learned from observing their parents . Girls also learn how to dry hides , mittens , and were the lining of boots were from their mothers . “ Also it states

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    properly defend the Arctic. They must defend the population of Inuit that currently reside in the Arctic must be protected because their way of life is changing due to their changing landscape. The gain

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