...The Inuit, or Eskimos, are very hearty people. Their climate and natural resources have shaped their lives. Inuit, in their language, Inuktitut, means ‘the people’. One member of the Inuit tribe is called Inuk which means ‘the person’. They live in northern Canada, Siberia, Alaska, and Greenland (Ducksters). These people have everyday issues that they solve very cleverly using their limited resources. The Inuit have to survive in the harsh cold of the Arctic Desert. In order to keep warm, they wear thick, caribou skin coats called parkas. They typically wear two or more parkas on top of one another. The outer parka had a large, fluffy hood made of ground squirrel fur. The Inuit wear 3 layers on their feet: a stocking, a sealskin boot called mukluk, and a fur slipper. Mothers wear parkas with large hoods for carrying babies and toddlers. This type of parka is called Amauti. Children’s clothing is made of the softer skin of younger animals. Once the children are 2-3 years old, they wear suits called atajuqs. These suits are a combination of mittens, pants, boots, parka and a hood (Canada's First Peoples)....
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...1. Why do Inuits have a strong bond? The Inuits have a strong bond because there is not a lot of people there and all of the them work together everyday. Another reason is because where they live is a very small place so everyone knows everyone. This is true because in the video at 50:00 it said, “ Even though it may seem like a big place it’s really not, it’s a every small place……” This means that even though people may think that not everyone would know everyone, they are wrong because everyone that lives in the Arctic knows everyone. This is why I know that the Inuits have a VERY strong bond. 2. Why would the Inuit have needed to understand the natural patterns of Arctic wildfire? The reason the Inuit need to understand the Arctic’s wildlife because when the hunters are going on the ice to go hunting for food for their families, then need to go at the right time so they can get the food/animals and they don’t miss them. This is true because in the video it said that some of them are scared to go hunt when it is starting to get warm because they don't know when all the ice that they walk on is going to melt. This means...
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...The Arctic Aboriginal Culture Group in Canada The Arctic Aboriginals are also known as the Inuit peoples. Originally they were referred to as the Eskimos, which is the Native American word for “eater of raw meat.” The Inuit were the last of the native peoples to arrive in North America. They were unable to settle in the south where the land was fertile, because it was inhabited by hostile peoples and were therefore forced to settle in the Arctic. The land in the Arctic was left inhabited because the climate there is extremely harsh and the winters are hard to survive in. Fortunately, the Inuit were able to adapt to the cold winters and harsh conditions. The Inuit have a unique culture from other First Nations peoples in Canada. The Canadian Inuit were split up into eight main groups: Labrador Inuit, Ungava, Baffin Island, Igloolik, Caribou, Netsilik, Copper and Western Arctic Inuit. The Inuits believed in animism, which is the belief that all living and non-living things have a spirit and a soul. They believed that when a spirit died it continued to live in a different world- the spirit world. The only people who had the power to control the spirits were powerful religious leaders called the Shamans. To communicate with those in the spirit world Shamans used charms and dances. Masks were thought to have powers that allowed the Shamans to communicate with the spirits and the Shamans wore them while performing rituals. To please the spirits the Shamans would offer gifts, and...
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...threat. (10) Some groups and communities view the melting of Greenland’s ice sheet as an opportunity rather than a threat because the melting ice creates some commercial advantages for the Arctic region; the Northern Sea Route, North of Canada, is the quickest way of travelling from Europe to the Pacific and Asia. This also increases the tourism opportunities because 30% of Inuit earn income from sculpture and printmaking for tourists, as the tourist ships are able to transport to the northern Canada. As the rapidly melting ice offers commercial opportunities in shipping, tourism and oil and gas extraction, the world’s largest economies are struggling but as well as trying to achieve and get hold of the region within the Arctic. A region in the Arctic thought to be contain 30% of the world’s undiscovered gas and 13%% of undiscovered oil. In addition, more oil can be used by groups of Inuit for essentials like the uses of fossil fuels. In Alaska, due to the new drilling activity, it creates new job opportunities and incomes for the local economy, which means more Inuit, get the job opportunities like this. Furthermore, there are currently four more mining operation being setting up and soon, it will provide jobs for natives in Greenland. In 2007, the Northwest Passage between Canada and Arctic melted enough to allow shipping for the first time and also allow more opportunities for activities like offshore oil exploration. Analysts think the economic impact could be important because...
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...The climate of the Earth is changing and drastically so. The average global rate for temperature is increasing each year, causing a variety of other issues to stem and grow off it including the invisible but growing issue of ocean acidity, a term first coined in only 2003 (Smithsonian, 2018, para. 5). In Canada, this is especially prominent in Nunavut and the surrounding Arctic Ocean in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Ocean acidification is the changing of the ocean surfaces chemistry when carbon dioxide is absorbed by the ocean (a natural sink for carbon) and forms carbonic acid (Cheek, 2014, para. 2). Oceans are naturally basic, having a pH of around 8.16 (Craig, 2012, para. 26) and have remained stable until now. The Industrial Revolution,...
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...Arctic Case Study Produce a case study file on Global Warming in the Arctic You should include: i. A map/definition of the Arctic ii. Evidence for the extent of warming iii. Key environmental, social and economic changes iv. Are there any advantages to global warming in the Arctic? v. Global concerns. Definition The Arctic is a polar region at the top of the world in the northernmost region of the Earth. The Arctic consists of the Arctic Ocean and parts of Canada, Russia, the United States, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Iceland. Evidence for the extent of global warming The average Artic temperatures have risen at 2 times compared to the of the world with the increase being 3-4°c in the last 50 years. In the next 100 years people predict that temperature of land will rise by 3-5°c and 7°c over the oceans. The ice withdrawal was at it smallest ever with its biggest ever retreat since records began, US scientists have confirmed that this is true. Also the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) said the extent of the retreat was 4.13 million sq km. which breaks all previous records breaking the previous record of 5.32 million sq km in 2005. This allowed the Northwest Passage to be declared open. There are concerns that Arctic will shrink, and with the melting glaciers and other ice in Greenland, could soon contribute to a substantial rise in sea levels worldwide. And sea levels have risen significantly with the sea levels rising...
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...The Inuit people (more commonly known as Eskimos) are a group of about 150,000 people who live in the Arctic tundra regions, mostly in Northern Canada, Siberia, Northern Alaska and Greenland. They are the indigenous people of the area. Their main language is Inuktitut and the word “Eskimo” meaning ‘eaters of raw meat’, originally quite offensive to inuits. They are also taught English, Danish, French or Russian at school. The Inuit’s descended from whale hunters who migrated to the Arctic regions but later turned to trapping animals when the European whale hunters arrived. They follow the Christian religion after being introduced it by missionaries. The Inuit people have changed their traditional ways to the more modern ways of life. The traditional...
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...conflict in her thoughts and feeling about hunting? The writer uses her personal experience to describe the feeling and thoughts in a harsh environment vividly. In the third paragraph, the writer writes a few sentences to show that ‘an essential contributor to the survival of the hunters in High Arctic’. It can be obviously seen that catching the narwhals to eat is necessary, as the people need to survive on them. The author uses some technical language such as ‘vitaminC’ and ‘scurvy’ to implie that this is the only source of food, energy, tools and money in the High Arctic, which shows her sympathy to the hunters as hunting for Narwale is the only job they can do. The area in the High Arctic is not suitable for growing other vegetables. Narwhals has a rich source of useful nutrition, so Inuit people catch the narwhal as a main source of food. Also, the Narwhal’s ivory can be used for many things such as ‘harpoon tips’, ‘hunting implements’ and ‘central beam for their small ancient dwellings’. These fully describe that Inuit people can’t live without the Narwale, as it can help the Inuit people to survive. The writer’ feelings are explicit in the sixth paragraph, the hyperbole, such as ‘my heart leapt’ is used when the hunter was about to harpoon the narwhal. It shows how narwhal’s intriguing action is. The hunter has much courage to catpure the Narwale, which it is not a easy job at all and should not be looked down. Even though...
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...Their transportation is a big sled pulled by a pack of huskies. The sled slides with great difficulty due to the dry-like-sand snow, but, at least, Nyla and the children do not have to travel on foot. Nanook seems to always have by his side the walrus knife which he uses virtually for everything, from hunting animals to cutting and creating ice blocks to build the igloo. From time to time, Nanook is seen with his proud harpoon which he uses to hunt walrus and fishes or his walking stick with one end sharpened to measure the thickness and hardness of the ice. Environmental resources are very scarce in the Arctic. Moss is the only plant that grows, and it is found in small patches here and there. The Inuit use moss for wicking, and sometimes for fuel. Walrus, seal, fox, polar bear, and salmon are the only animals available for hunting. They are the main source of food for the Inuit, and their skins are used to make clothing and boat’s coating. Seal’s oil is kept and used as a source of fuel....
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...Compare and Contrast Essay The Inuit Tribe and the Lakota Tribe both have similarities and differences. For example, The Inuit Tribe is cold and The Lakota Tribe is hot. A similarity means what the two things have in common or alike. A difference means what the two things do not have in common. Here are the differences of the Lakota and Inuit tribe. The climate of the Inuit is different from the lakota. Life in the Lakota Tribe very hot. So, the climate of the Lakota Tribe is hot and dry. On the other hand, the life in the Inuit Tribe is cold. So the climate of the Inuit is cold and wet. It is cold because the Inuit tribe mostly lives in the northern zones.(Some near the Arctic.) However, the Lakota tribe lives near the middle...
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...(Dick, p.7) Pivloktoq-like Behavior has less to do with the spirit or unconscious, but more connected with how human body interact with the demand of subsistence activity through seasonal climate change in the Arctic, such as intense work load and interrupted sleep pattern during summers, and in the winter, as Richard G. Condon concludes, “activity rhythms tend to take on free-running characteristics during the dark period as people stay up later in the night and sleep correspondingly later into the day (p.135)”. One of the characteristics of AH that commonly recognized by researchers is “slept for 15 hours after the attack” (Gussow, p.274). While sleep for 15 hours appears abnormal and symptomatic through western lens, the dark...
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...that can encourage innovation, and introduction of advance technologies from western nations that can improve life in developing areas of the world. There is also an increased global awareness of issues and greater access to foreign culture such as movies, music, food, and clothing. Negative implications of globalization include the outsourcing of jobs to countries where labor is cheaper, loss of cultural identities as different cultures mingle, and the spread of disease as people move around the world. Natural ecosystems are affected by globalization due to the introduction of invasive species of plants and animals (Steif, 2010). This paper will discuss the effects of globalization on two cultures, the South American Incas and the Inuit people of the north. The Inca people lived in Peru for over three hundred years. They were a rustic culture that had skills in animal breeding and agriculture (About Peru History, n.d.). They were an extremely religious culture, worshiping many gods, but considering the Sun God to be their main ruler. Incan kings were believed to be descended from the Sun God and were therefore seen as having absolute power. A society ruled by war, the Inca conquered and ruled most of South America for almost one hundred years. The Incas saw themselves...
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...Americas before the Europeans arrived. Of the several million, 10 million lived in the region that is called the USA now. In order to analyze these different culture groups, they had been arranged in different culture regions. The different culture regions were called Arctic, Subarctic, Northeast, Southeast, Plains, Southwest, Great Basin, Northwest Coast, and Plateau. The first culture region is called the Arctic, chilly, level, no trees region, close to a region that is called the Arctic Circle, which is now called Alaska. This region there are a group of people who live here that are called the Inuit, and the Aleut. These two types of people speak a language that is called Eskimo-Aleut language family. The populace of this cold region is very small. The Inuit hunted seals, bears, as they were going through the tundra. The population of this region was only 2,500 because of different diseases. The next culture region is called the Subarctic, this region is very marshy, and have several pine trees, and very wet. This regions populace has two groups that spoke Athabaskan, Algonquian. In this region it was hard for the people to travel, and the populace was even smaller than the Arctic region. The next culture region is called the Northeast, they were the first people to meet the Europeans. This region went from Canada's Atlantic coast to North Carolina. These group of people spoke two different languages called the...
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...The Importance of Children’s Literature Learning Team E ENG/290 December 5, 2013 Ron Tatum Ph. D Eskimo Children’s Literature A child’s education is the backbone of any society. From the richest country in the world, to the poorest, without an educated population following behind, that country will not grow. From poetry, to science fiction, educating a child’s mind produces what we as a society will be exposed to and learn from. Ancient myths were the first tools used to teach our children where we came from and how the world around them came to be. Then there were the Greeks, introducing writing and a way to record our thoughts more accurately. With each generation, new concepts were discovered to teach with. It wasn’t until the invention of the movable type printing press in the 1400’s, that more children had a better chance for an education. Cheaper production meant less expenses, and more opportunities for widespread publication of books and reading material. The Bible was still the main teaching format used, but the printing press allowed more people to own their own bible. Most writing was still directed toward the adult population, but slowly, adults started realizing there was a need for information directed toward the child, more easily understood. By the mid-eighteenth century a man named John Newberry came along with the idea of creating books specifically for the child, publishing “A Little Pretty Pocket...
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...Aboriginal Rights What are Aboriginal rights? Aboriginal rights are collective rights which flow from Aboriginal peoples’ continued use and occupation of certain areas. They are inherent rights which Aboriginal peoples have practiced and enjoyed since before European contact. Because each First Nation has historically functioned as a distinct society, there is no one official overarching Indigenous definition of what these rights are. Although these specific rights may vary between Aboriginal groups, in general they include rights to the land, rights to subsistence resources and activities, the right to self-determination and self-government, and the right to practice one’s own culture and customs including language and religion. Aboriginal rights have not been granted from external sources but are a result of Aboriginal peoples’ own occupation of their home territories as well as their ongoing social structures and political and legal systems. As such, Aboriginal rights are separate from rights afforded to non-Aboriginal Canadian citizens under Canadian common law. European Settlement and Aboriginal struggles Aboriginal people have a long and proud history that includes rich cultural and spiritual traditions. Many of these traditions, however, were altered or even taken away upon the arrival of European settlers. The forced introduction of European culture and values to Aboriginal societies, the dispossession of Aboriginal lands, and the imposition of alien modes of governance...
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