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<p>Settlements</p>
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Canadian Inuit live primarily in
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nunavut">Nunavut</a>,
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a territory in Canada.
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There have been Inuit settlements in
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yukon">Yukon</a>, especially
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at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herschel_Island">Herschel
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Island</a>, but there are none at present.
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Crossed the Bering Land Bridge during the Ice Age 35,000 to 22,000 BCE.
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Inuit also lived in temporary shelters made from show in winter (the
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famous <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igloo">Igloo</a>), and
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during the few months of the year when temperatures were above freezing,
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they lived in tents made of animal skins and bones.
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<p>Language Terms of the Region</p>
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In <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inuktitut">Inuktitut</a>,
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the language of the Inuit people, "Inuit" means "the people".
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The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Language">English</a>
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word "Eskimo" is a Native American word which is widely believed to
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mean "eater of raw meat," although this meaning is disputed.
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Many Inuit consider the word <em>Eskimo</em> offensive, but it is
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still in general usage to refer to all Eskimo peoples.
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<p>Travel</p>
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Sea animals were hunted from single-passenger, covered seal-skin
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boats called <em>qajait</em> which were extraordinarily buoyant,
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and could easily be righted by a seated person, even if completely
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overturned. Because of this property, the Inuit design was copied
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- along with the Inuit word - by Europeans who still make and use
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them under the name kayak. Inuit also made umiaq - larger, open
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boats made out of skins and bones for transporting people, goods and
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dogs.
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On land, the Inuit used <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_sled">
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dog sleds</a> (in Inuktitut, <em>qamutiit</em>, singular <em>qamutiq</em>
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) for transportation. The
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comes from Inuit breeding of dogs for transportation.
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They used landmarks to navigate, and possessed a comprehensive
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native system of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toponymy">
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toponymy</a>. Where natural landmarks were insufficient, the Inuit
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would erect an <em>inukshuk</em> (a stone landmark used as a
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milestone or directional marker, sometimes created in the appearance
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of a man) to compensate.
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<p>Clothing</p>
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The hoods of Inuit women's parkas - <em>amautiit</em> (singular
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<em>amauti</em>, <em>amaut</em> or <em>amautik</em>) in Inuktitut -
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were traditionally made extra large; to protect the baby from the
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harsh wind when snuggled against the mother's back.
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Boots (Inuktitut: <em>kamik</em> or <em>
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mukluk">mukluk</a></em>)
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could be made of caribou or sealskin, and designs varied for men
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and women.
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<p>Oral Tradition Facts and Myths</p>
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Nearly all Inuit cultures have oral traditions of raids by Indians
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and fellow Inuit, and of taking vengeance on them in return.
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Although these tales are generally regarded not as accurate
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historical accounts but as self-serving myths - violence against
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outsiders as justified revenge - it does make clear that there was a
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history of hostile contact between Inuit and other cultures.
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Even within an Inuit band, breaching traditional justice and wronging
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another Inuit was routinely punished by murderous vengeance, as the
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story of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atanarjuat">Atanarjuat</a>
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shows. Within a community, punishments were meted out by community
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decision, or by the elders, and a breach meant that the victim and his
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or her relatives could seek out restitution or revenge.
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Martin Frobisher, attempted to find the Northwest Passage. He
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encountered Inuit on Resolution Island. Five sailors jumped ship and
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became part of Inuit mythology. The homesick sailors tired of their
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adventure attempted to leave in a small vessel and vanished.
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Frobisher brought an unwilling Inuk to England, doubtless the first
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Inuk ever to visit Europe. The Inuit oral tradition, in contrast,
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recounts the natives helping Frobisher's crewmen, who believed they
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had been abandoned.
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The Moravian missionaries could easily provide the Inuit with the iron
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and basic materials they had been stealing from whaling outposts -
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materials whose real cost to Europeans was almost nothing, but whose
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value to the Inuit was enormous - and from then on contacts in
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Labrador were far more peaceful.
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<li><p>
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Inuit Throat Singing – This cultural form of artistic
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expressive came along with the Inuit across the Bering
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Ice Bridge. Originally decreed illegal by priests, throat
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singing has came back into the mainstream.
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Inuit throat-singing is done the following way: two women
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face each other; they may be standing or crouching down; one
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is leading, while the other responds; the leader produces a
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short rhythmic motif, that she repeats with a short silent gap
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in-between, while the other is rhythmically filling in the
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gaps. The game is such that both singers try to show their
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vocal abilities in competition, by exchanging these vocal
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motives. The first to run out of breath or be unable to
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maintain the pace of the other singer will start to laugh or
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simply stop and will thus loose the game. It generally last
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between one and three minutes. The winner is the singer who
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beats the largest number of people.
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Words and meaningless syllables are used in the songs. When
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words are used, no particular poetical meaning or regular
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meaning are assigned to them. These words can simply be
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names of ancestors, a word or name meaningful at the time the
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games are taking place, or other common words. The meaningless
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syllables generally portray sounds of nature or cries of
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animals or birds, or sounds of everyday life.
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The information on these communities courtesy of the NWT Data Book 1990, compiled by
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the Government of the Northwest Territories (published by Outcrop Ltd. Yellowknife,
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© April 1991).
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