1. Inuit of the Arctic

2. What do you know about the Inuit?
Let’s do a pair/share brainstorm:

3. The Inuit of the Arctic Territory:
Northern Canada (Yukon, Northwest Territories and Nunavut)
Alaska, Greenland
*Traditionally near or around the coast

4. The Climate of the Arctic
The land of “ice and snow” and tundra (no vegetation)
Little or no trees
Little rain or precipitation (some parts considered desert)
Temperature is cool, cold, and freezing cold!

5. Clothing – Keeping warm in the Arctic
Caribou skin
Seal skin

6. Food – Subsistence in the Arctic
Inuit that lived inland ate:
Caribou
Musk-ox
Bear
Fish
Inuit that lived on the coast ate:
Seal
Birds
Walrus
Whales

7. Transportation - Land
Winter – dog sled
Summer – walking

8. Transportation - Water
* Umiak (many people)
* Kayak (one person)

9. Skin Tents
Housing
Igloo

10. Inuit Society Based on hunting groups and trading partnerships.
Patrilineal organization (family traced through the father).
Elders directed behaviour and formed the governing council.
Belief that people should behave properly in order to exist with nature.
Illness or misfortune was a sign from nature that people were not acting properly. (Taboo)

11. Masks

12. Inukshuk The inukshuk is used as: a navigational aid
a marker for hunting grounds
a hidden supply of food or supplies
in hunting to attract geese and caribou
and as a way to mark sacred (holy – spiritually important) ground.