By : Azariah Knight, Anya Stewart, and Mackalyn Williams
KEEPING UP WITH THE INUITS
Keeping up with the Inuits
US History Core 2
Mrs. Venable By:
Azariah Knight, Anya Stewart, Mackalyn Williams
March
rd 3 ,
2016
Chapter 1: Location The Inuit lived mostly across northern Canada, Alaska, and the coast of the Arctic Ocean.
Chapter 1: Location They also lived in Greenland, the Aleutian Islands, and Siberia.
Siberia
Greenland
Aleutian Islands
Chapter 1: Location Most of the land there is a flat barren tundra. Snow and ice only melt in the summer months. Normally, the temperature is warm in June, July, August, and September ( the summer months). January, February, March, and December ( the winter months)have the lowest normal temperature. February is the coldest month where the Inuits lived. The lower temperatures are in April, May, October, and November but these were months where its cold but its warmer than the winter months.
Chapter 2: Diet The Inuit couldn’t cultivate plants for food in the artic so they would eat raw meat.
Distribution of frozen Walrus meat.
The also ate a lot of smoked salmon.
Grasses, seaweed, fire weed, roots, tubers, stems, and berries were also collected and pressured for food also.
The Inuit used spears, harpoons, knives, and bow and arrows to hunt.
Chapter 3: Shelter Depending on where the Inuits live and the time of the year is the kind of house you will live in. There are 3 types of house you can live in. The three types of houses are igloos, tents, and sods.
Igloo The igloos take 20 to 30 minutes to build depending on the size. The igloos were made in the artic tundra. The igloos are made out of packed ice and snow. If there was a hole that wasn’t the entrance the Intuits would fix the hole. The igloos were made during winter.
Tents The tents are made out of caribou or seal skin. The tents used drift wood or whale bones to keep the tent up. Of course, the tents were made in the summer landscape. The tents were made in the summer. When it was windy the tents didn’t fall over. A ring boulder was placed over the tents to keep the wind from blowing down the tent.
Sods Sods were made out drift wood and whale bones. The treeless landscape are were the sod homes were made. The sods were also made during the winter. Whale bones and wood were used as a outline for the sod. Some sod homes had a hole in the ground.
There are three biomes the artic tundra, summer landscape, treeless landscape. The treeless landscape are were the sod homes were made. Of cores the tents were made in the summer landscape. The igloos were made in the artic tundra. The artic tundra is were you can also find sods.
Treeless landscape
Sod
Artic tundra
Summer landscape
Tent Igloo
Chapter 4: Clothing Pants and shirts are usually made of caribou. In the summer months, they use the seal skin to keep themselves dry. Everything they make is made of sea whales, seals, and sea lions.
Chapter 4: Clothing In the winter, parkas are made from the intestines of sea whales, sea lion, and seals. During the winter months, they use parkas to black themselves from the harsh wind and cold. They use the animal skins to keep then selves dry and to protect themselves.
Chapter 4: Clothing In the summer, shirts are made of seal skin. Seal skin is also used to make pants, which are tucked into their boots.
Chapter 5: Art
The Inuit made carvings, mask, Inuksuk's, and basket weavings.
Art .
They used resources that were available to them, such as parts of animal, stone, and driftwood.
Art . Caving's were made out of stone, bone, and ivory (from walruses and whales). Most where of Artic animals, people, or spirits.
Art
Masks were used in ceremonial dances. The masks where made of Driftwood or whalebone.
Art Inuksuk's were large rock cairns made from balancing rocks.
Art
Basket weavings were weaved out of artic grasses.
Chapter 6 transportation On the water there are two Umiaks and Kayaks. On land they used dog sled. The Inuit had different methods of travel depending on the season. The Inuit people also attached spikes called 'crampons' to the bottom of their boots to get more grip when traveling on the ice. In the winter they traveled across the frozen Arctic either by foot or dog sled.
Umiaks were large, open boats mainly used for travel. Umiaks were open, wooden, skin-covered boats. They were larger than kayaks, 7-10 m long and 2.5 m wide, and could carry between 10 and 15 people. They were generally used to move from camp to camp, and to hunt larger sea mammals, like whales. Usually the women did the rowing, while the men steered the boat. They used Umiaks during the summer.
Umiak
Kayaks Kayaks were small, lightweight boats mainly used for hunting. Kayaks were one-person wood frame boats covered with sealskin. They were built to be lightweight, and easy to paddle and maneuver in the water. Sealskin skirts were wrapped around the occupant's waist to prevent water from entering the boat. During the summer they used Kayaks during the summer.
Dog sleds When the first Inuit arrived in North America, they brought dogs with them. The dogs helped with hunting. They were able to scare off bears and other threatening animals, and could also help locate seals' breathing holes. Dogs were also used as pack animals, like the Plains people used horses, and to pull sleds called 'unieks'. The dogs were used as transportation during the winter pulling sleds.
Interesting facts The Inuit lived in smaller family groups with no real leader or Chief, unlike other First Peoples groups in Canada. During the winter, families would live and hunt together in larger groups (several families), but during the summer they would split up to follow the hunt.
Interesting facts Family groups were the most important social unit in Inuit culture. They usually lived in family groups of around 5-6 people. Then each family would live and hunt together with 6-10 other families. Marriage was important for the Inuit people. Some marriages were arranged, but most were by choice.
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