Tuesday, September 11, 2007

the inuit

The Eskimos live in the artic regions of America, Greenland and Siberia. They prefer to be called the Inuit, because Eskimo is a derogatory term that mean «devourer of meat». This people have their origins in the northeast of Asia. Do some thousands of years they crossed the Berlin’s strait for to stay in the north of America too. The Inuit live in the north’s tundra of Canada, Alaska and Greenland. In this zone of the Earth live near of 100.000 persons. The Inuit have a nomad life, they follow the migrations of the animals that they hunt, like the caribous, the bears, the whales and the seals. Of that ones and of others animals they use all the possible parts for to eat, to wrap up and to construct igloos and tools for to hunt, like for example, the whales’ teeth (the Inuit take a whale’s beard and he coils it inside of a fat’s ball, this ball is eaten for a polar bear and when the fat is dissolved in its stomach, the beard stretches and hurt inside, then the Inuit hunter only have to follow the bear until it collapses). Actually, for the strong process of civilization, there is a big chance in their form of life. The Inuit are organized in familiar groups and every member has a specific work. The Inuit are hunter and worker people. In the family, the first-born has always to be a man, for that in the future he looks after and feed to his parents and to the rest of his family (his smaller sisters). And if the first-born is a women, the Inuit abandons the baby in the snow.

3 comments:

vera said...

no, I'd never make it through without you around.


:) love you aaaa a a a

Anonymous said...

Hello, I have not read your blog from some time ago.

I have found very interesting your article about the Inuits.

Just a comment, the strait between Asia and Alaska, that becomes frozen in winter, is called Bering Strait.

Kisses
Jesús

Canadian_Inuk said...

Hello. I am of Inuit heritage and live in the arctic. I speak the native Inuktitut language and even teach Inuit history and culture. I just wanted to say that we would never (ever) abandon babies in the snow; male or female. Thanks.