Inuit First Nations
What do Inuit people live in?
In the winter Inuit people live in Igloos
Igloos are made by putting curved ice blocks around and around and they keep it going until it is closed from all sides(except the door.)
The Inuit use Igloos to store food and for shelter
Did you know?!
Inuit men can make an igloo in
just 30 minutes!Cool, right?!
What do Inuit people wear?
Inuit people used animal
hides to make their clothes
and they used
The Inuit made beautiful
clothing from animal hides,fur,
quills,feathers and even TREES!
How did they hunt?
They used bows and arrows.
The bows and arrows were
usually made with wood and string.
The bow and arrows are shot off to kill buffalo and many other animals that they hunted
What did they eat?
The Inuit ate all kind of stuff
Including fish, seals, whales and many other arctic animals.
Inuit people try as
much as they can to use up
as much of the food as possible.
The Inuit hunted seals,polar bears,and walruses during the winter while they were on the ice and in the summer they hunted buffalo herds and whales were hunted in open water.The Inuit also hunted caribou,musk oxen,arctic fox,polar bears,arctic hare and other arctic birds.
Where did Inuit
people live in
Canada?
Inuit people lived
in northern canada and
in Alaska(Which belongs to
the U.S.A.)but they also lived
in greenland,and in the North
Eastern tip of Siberia(Which
belongs to Russia.)
During the winter It was almost
always dark and during the summer it was almost always bright.
Some Inuit people live all the way in Qubec
What language did Inuit
cultures speak?
Inuit people spoke a
language called Inuktitut.
In Inuit cultures people
said "halu" (Ha-lu)to say:hello.
The inuit people said
"tungasugit"
(Toong-a-su-git)
to say:welcome
what tools they used
An Ulu is a multi purpose cutting tool with a semi circular blade and a handle it has been a major part of an Inuit women's life and coulter for at least the last 4500 years. The Ulu has great advantage over a conventional knife as a physicist or a kinesiologist would tell you.
Inuit belief's
Traditional Inuit religious practice includes animism
and shamanism in which spiritual healers meditate
with spirits. today many Inuit follow Christianity,
but traditional Inuit spiritual continues as part of a
living oral tradition and part of contemporary Inuit society.