The Inuit People

Page
3

Constructing an igloo

www.sliderbase.com

Slide 14

Family Life

Family ties have always been of great importance to the Inuit. Having a large family was always considered desirable.

Traditionally, women have often assumed a secondary role in Inuit society. At mealtime, an Inuit woman was required to serve her husband and any visitors before she herself was permitted to eat. But at the same time, a common Inuit saying extolled women in this way: "A hunter is what his wife makes him." The women were the ones who gathered firewood, butchered the animals, and erected tents in summer and igloos in winter.

www.sliderbase.com

Slide 15

Language

Inuktittut, the language used by the Inuit in the eastern Arctic, had no written form until one was developped by a missionary in the 1800's. The language is written in syllabic symbols corresponding to groups of sounds.

www.sliderbase.com

Slide 16

Map of geographic area

Greenland, Canada, United States, Russia

www.sliderbase.com

Slide 17

How they adapted the land in which they lived

The Inuit are the descendants of what anthropologists call the Thule culture, a nomadic people who emerged from western Alaska around 1000 and spread eastwards across the Arctic, displacing the related Dorset culture (in Inuktitut, the Tuniit). Inuit legends speak of the Tuniit as "giants", people who were taller and stronger than the Inuit, but who were easily scared off and retreated from the advancing Inuit. By 1300, the Inuit had settled west Greenland, and finally moved into east Greenland over the following century.

www.sliderbase.com

Slide 18

3 images

An Inuit man works on a traditional house

www.sliderbase.com

Slide 19

3 sources in Bibliography

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inuit

www.mce.k12tn.net/indians/reports3/inuit.htm

www.inuit.org/

http://www.mindfully.org/Air/US-Threatens-Inuit.jpg

http://images.google.com/images?q=inuit&ndsp=18&svnum=10&hl=ko&lr=&start=90&sa=N

upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/fr/thumb/9/9d

www.iti.gov.nt.ca

www.sliderbase.com