1. Native Americans Inuit
SS 4H1: The students will describe how early native American cultures developed in North America

2. Ancient Americans
About 40,000 years ago…….

3. Where Do the Inuit Live?
The Inuit are the native people who live in the Arctic.
In Canada, they live in the Northern part of Canada near the Arctic Ocean.

4. How did the Inuit obtain there food?
There are almost no trees in the Arctic, so there are very few plants.
It is cold most of the year. The Inuit could not become farmers.
Their main food year around was meat.

5. How did the Inuit obtain there food?
They were hunters and gatherers.
Seal
Whale
Caribou
In the short summer, they gathered berries, seaweed, and eggs.
Survival?

6. Caribou

7. Whale

8. Seal

9. How did the Inuit survive?

10. Inuit Hunt to Survive Land Animals Water Animals
Caribou-Most important
Musk Oxen
Snow Bunnies
Polar Bears
Water Animals
Fish
Seals
Walrus
Small White Whales
Narwhales

11. Inuit Homes-Shelter Winter
Cut blocks of hard-packed snow in houses called igloos.

12. Inuit Homes-Shelter Summer
Wood frames covered with animal skins like caribou and seal.

13. How Do the Inuit Travel? On Water
Kayaks (small boats)
Umiaks (large boats)

14. What is the Inuit Clothing Like?
Inuit clothes were made out of animal skins.
Caribou
Musk oxen
Women made the clothes.