2. By. Lauren S. and Catherine K.

3. Location  Location is the Arctic region In North America.  Stretches 5000 miles Bering Strait to Greenland

4. Shelters  Permanent homes were made out of stone and earth.  Temporary homes were made out of igloos made of snow and ice.

5. Clothing  Clothing was made out of seal skin, caribou, musk, oxen, polar bears and birds.  Women skinned animals and used bones for needles and gut for thread.

6. Food  Walrus, seal, and other fur bearing sea animals.  In late summer they ambushed slow moving herds of caribou.

7. Customs and Religion  Connected to nature tradition and believe that every being has a spirit and must be respected.  Believed in magical beings

8. Arts  Artists created simple things such as animals and scenes of daily life.  They created stone sculptural of animals such as polar bear, reindeers, and walruses.  Scrimshaw-very famous technique, engraved carvings that told stories in ivory then rubbed carving with lampblack

9. Tools/Weapons  Umiaks- large open boats  Kayaks-light canoes  Harpoons- small and large spears

10. Fun Facts  Men and Women wore hooded tunics and trousers with large boots  The women's tunic were big enough to hold their babies inside  Inuksuk's-stacked rocks to make like a human figure  Inuksuk marked land marks when out hunting so they wouldn't get lost  They are also called Eskimos

11. Language  Language-Inuktitut English Inuktitut frost kaniq person inuk river kuuk outside silima

12. Citations  http://www.mce.k12tn.net/indians/reports 3/inuit2.htm http://www.mce.k12tn.net/indians/reports 3/inuit2.htm  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inuit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inuit