1. THE INUIT “The People” Danika: Hello! Welcome to the arctic!
Erin: Today we will be telling you a little about the Inuit

2. Food and Agriculture Inuit living in Nunangat harvested country food.
Seals were most common to hunt for their bones, oil and skin.
The Inuits ate lots of meat due to lack of vegetation.
Hunters followed the caribou migration.
Hunting was most important way of finding food.
Kaitlyn: The Inuit ate a lot of raw meats as cooking was very hard and vegetation was scarce
Alice: Hunting and fishing was very important to them
Kaitlyn: Seals were very important as they helped provide bones, oil, skin and food
Alice: The oceans and rivers were frozen for 9 months of the year
Kaitlyn: So the Inuit had to go ice fishing in order to get food. The Inuit also followed the caribou migration so they could hunt the caribou

3. Kaitlyn: This is a picture of the Inuit people fishing
Alice: Without fishing the life of the Inuits would be much harder
Kaitlyn: Caribou is another very important animal, they use every part of the animal for lots of different purposes
Alice: This is a picture of the Inuit hunting seal

4. Clothing Clothing made out of animal skin and fur.
Caribou skin was most common because of its good insulation.
Wore many layers during winter.
Snow goggles made from caribou antlers to protect from snow blindness.
Women wore large hooded parkas to carry their children.
Decorated clothes with quills, feathers and dyes.
Hana: Because of the harsh winters the Inuit had to wear many layers
Lauren: They’re clothing was generally made of seal and caribou skin
Hana: They also had other winter wear.
Lauren: Like snow googles
Hana: Snow goggles are used to protect the Inuit's eyes
Lauren: The sun reflects off of the snow causing snow blindness but snow goggles prevent that
Hana: The women wore big parkas to protect infants from the snow

5. Describe pictures

6. Shelter
During warmer weather they lived in tents made from animal hide.
In the winter they made dome-like houses from ice and snow called igloos.
Inuit in richer locations had access to trees and other recourses to make temporary houses called wigwams.
They used seal oil to light lamps inside their houses.
Coastal inuit made large houses that were partly in the ground.
Erin: Although its usually cold in the warmer weather the Inuit live in Tipis
Danika: But during the winter they made igloos
Erin: The southern regions of the arctic they had access to trees and other Woodley resources
Danika: Which made it easier to build shelters such as wigwams and tipis
Erin: In the colder months igloos weren't enough to warm there bodies
Danika: So they used oil from the seals as fuel for there soap stone lambs

8. Geography Inhabited most of northern Canada, Alaska and Greenland.
surrounded bye 3 oceans; Atlantic, Pacific, Arctic.
Summer only lasts a few moths each year.
Inuit had to adapt to freezing cold temperatures throughout many years
Many mountain ranges, tundras
Permafrost stayed frozen all year.
Alice: The Inuit lived in Northern Canada
Kaitlyn: This area of Canada is surrounded by oceans which made it easier for the Inuit to hunt
Alice: The summer lasted about 3 to 4 months
Kaitlyn: And during most of the winter it was dark throughout the day

10. Social Organization
Eight main Inuit groups (ie: Labrador, Ungava, Baffin island, Iquilik, Caribou, Netsilik, Copper& Western, Inuktitut
5 inuit dialects
5-6 in a family families lived together in a group.
Men hunted, fished and built houses. Women cooked, made clothes and watched children.
No leader or chief.
Hana: Although the Inuit didn’t communicate with other Canadian Aboriginals they did commune with other Inuit tribes
Lauren: There were many tribes that made up the Inuit civilization
Hana: A few being Baffin Island, Labrador and Iquilik
Lauren: The Inuit had 5 different dialects
Hana: The Inuit had families of about 6
Lauren: But had groups of about 6 to 10 families
Hana: The men were the hunters, they also fished and built houses and igloos for they’re families
Lauren: While the women stayed home. The women had the responsibilities of cooking, making clothes and looking after the children
Hana: The Inuit had no leader, they voted until for a mutual consensus on the topic

11. Hana and Lauren Describe Pictures

12. Other Information Inuit means “The People”
They used to be called “Eskimos” which meant “eater of raw meat.”
Popular Game called head pull
Inutuks were used to scare caribou towards the hunters.
Helping your fellow man was a very important rule
Practiced a religion called animism
The shallow is a one sided drum and was a popular instrument for ceremonies
Danika: A popular game for the winter games was called head pull
Erin: Some the clothing the Inuit had was made out of the intestines of marine animals
Danika: The Inuksuk was made by the Inuit to lure animals into a trap of hunters

14. Works Cited
"EcoKids Home." EcoKids Home. N.p., n.d. Web. 20 Oct <
"The Arctic People - Groups in this Region." The Arctic People - Groups in this Region. N.p., n.d. Web. 12 Oct <
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15. QUESTIONS