The Inuits

By: Evan & Elliot

Location

• The Inuits live in:• Canada• Greenland• Alaska, United States• Aleutian Islands• Siberia, Russia

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Food• Inuit's and their food:• Inuits are hunters• Fish • Sea mammals (seals, whale, walrus)• Few land mammals (caribou, polar

bear, birds, arctic hare)• Bannock (traditional bread)

Shelter

• Inuit housing:• Igloos (common winter houses)• Skin Tents (common in summer)• Stone Houses (common in

Greenland)• Driftwood and Earth houses

(common in Siberia)Seal-Skin TentsSeal-Skin Tents

Movement

• Types of transportation:• Sleds (frame, plank)• Boats (Kayaks, Umiaks)• Frame sleds used in Alaska and Siberia• Plank sleds used in Canada and

Greenland• Kayaks used for hunting• Umiaks used for long trips• Sleds were powered by dogs

Outer Clothing

• Outer Clothing Includes:• Hooded Jacket• Mittens• Trousers• Boots

Inuit’s outer clothing was mostly

made of Caribou skin

Inner Clothing

• Inner Clothing Includes:• Hooded Jacket• Trousers• Socks

Inuit’s inner clothing was made

mostly of seal skin.

Region

• The regions of the Inuit:• Arctic (harshest region in the world)• Sub arctic (very cold, below freezing)• Climate (long cold winters, short cool

summers)• Average temperature = -20 degrees

F, -30 degrees F• Snowfall (15-90inches a year)

Inuit Art

• Inuits carved every day objects• Inuits made mostly animals in their

art• Inuits designed some of their art with

clothing

Sports/Recreation

• Sports the intuits' played are:• Weightlifting & wrestling• Football & ice hockey• Entertainment (drumming, dancing,

dice game, throat singing)

The inuit’s also possessed their own games

Skills, Tools, and Products

• Skilled Carvers (Bow drills)• Knives (bone, wood, ivory)• Skilled Fishers (harpoons)• Stone tied on a branch for hammer• Making Jewelry (Inuit Bling)• Painters• Art

Social Customs

• Inuit social customs:• Language (Inupik and Yupik)• Marriage (individual choice)

Place

• What the place is like:• Cold• Normally Snow covered (tundra)• Near Water (i.e. Pacific Ocean)

The Frozen Tundra

Pacific Ocean

Human/Environment Interaction

• The Inuit’s interacted with their environment by:

• Igloos (homes made out of mounds of snow)

• Clothing (made from animals in the region)• Hunting tools (made from common

resources such as wood)• Food (came from animals and fish)• Transportation (dog sleds and kayaks)

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