The Inuits

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The Inuits

• By Justin, Chelsea, Caitlan, and Michael

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Inuit Culture

• Inuit Games

Inuit children had a number of things to keep
them preoccupied, like a doll made of animal
skins. Boys played with small bow and arrows,
spears and kayaks. They also used small knifes
to draw pictures in the snow. The adult Inuits
played make believe, tried to get a stick into a
bone with holes in it and spinned a knife, if it
landed on a person, that person had to perform a
task. They also played tug of war and wrestled.
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Inuit Culture

• Inuit Festivals

The Inuit performed dances with drums. The
Inuits also went to a sweatloge instead of church
and they smoked the peace pipe to get incommen
with the spirts, then they poured grass over each
other for spirtual cleansing. Inuits also
respected there elders because they thought they
were wise. This is a peace pipe.

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The Inuits Food

• How The Inuits got their food

• The Inuits had special ways of catching their
  food . They used to distract musk-oxen with dogs
  then kill the musk-oxen. They also used the same
  technique on wolves.
• Inuits hunted seal by using a seal indicated
  which was a piece of bone, so that when the seal
  went up to breathe, the seal indicator shook and
  the hunter killed the seal with a spear, with a
  rope attach to it and pulled the seal up.
• Women also hunted . They built small igloos with
  a hole on the top so the woman could grab an
  unsecpecting bird.
• Hunters also used a speared shot(arrow) and
  caught their food.

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The Inuits Food

• What They Ate

They ate a number of different sea animals such
as seal, walrus, buluga and norwhale. They also
ate land animals such as caribou ,musk-oxen,
birds, foxes, mammoth,hares and wolves.
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Transportation

• Inuits walked short distances with snow shoes.
• The Inuits also used a sled pulled by dogs. The
  sled was made of whale bone
• Inuits also traveled by water with kayaks and a
  umaik which is a larger vertion of a kayak.
  Kayaks were made of seal skin and drift wood and
  carabou antlers were used as as a stearing column.

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The Inuits Housing

• In the summer tipis and tents are used for living
  in. They usually used seal skin to cover the
  tents and tipis.
• In the winter, Inuits used igloos to keep warm.
• They also used autumn houses which were old houes
  that are fixed up.
• They used ice houses which were houses with ice
  walls and a seal skin roof.

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The Inuits Relgion

• The Inuits believed that when died your soul
  splits in two. Half goes to an animal and the
  other goes to a new born child.
• The Inuits also believed that they had to do
  things like sacrafice food to keep the spirits
  happy. These things are Tabboos.
• They also built statues called tupilaks to keep
  enemys away.