While the term Inuit is preferred to Eskimo by many in Canada, the term is retained here because (a) it properly refers to any Eskimo group, not only the Inuit; and (b) its use is widespread in Native ...
While the term Inuit is preferred to Eskimo by many in Canada, the term is retained here because (a) it properly refers to any Eskimo group, not only the Inuit; and (b) its use is widespread in Native ...
But when you are surrounded by snow, what do you build? The answer is of course, an igloo! 'Igloo' is an Inuit word for 'snow house', and 'Inuit' is the word that describes the people who live in ...
The idea behind the camping trips is to ensure that inuit traditions will survive, even if the ice does not. Owen Willie, 18, hunts snow geese on his family’s remote camp in the Canadian Arctic.
Inuit men sing to the accompaniment of tambourine ... or the limitless expanse of snow, from which they constructed houses. Even their hunting tools came from the animals they killed -- fashioning ...
Inuit usually built their winter villages on ... provided some buffer against the freezing winds of the Arctic, such as snow ridges or cliffs. 2. (c) a layer of snow formed in a single drift ...