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	AncientWeb.org: Ancient Canada - The Art, Culture, and History of the Ancient Far North
		Evidence of cooking and small pieces of slate ulu knives (commonly used by Inuit women) were recovered from the eastern side of the house which led the archaeologists to suggest that this was the women's side of the house.
		Inuit traditional cosmology is not religion in the usual theological sense, and is similar to what most people think of as mythology only in that it is a narrative about the world and the place of people in it.
		Malina is a solar deity in Inuit mythology.
	www.ancientweb.org /Canada (0 words)

	Inuit - MSN Encarta
		Inuit homes are of two kinds: walrus or sealskin tents for summer and huts or houses for winter.
		Such snow houses, rare in Greenland and unknown in Alaska, were once permanent winter houses of the Inuit of central and eastern Canada.
		Inuit rituals and myths reflect preoccupation with survival in a hostile environment.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761561130_2/Inuit.html (1171 words)

	Snow
		Snow is commonly formed when water vapor undergoes deposition high in the atmosphere at a temperature of less than 0°C, and then falls to the ground.
		Permanent snow covering is affected by factors such as the degree of slope on the land, amount of snowfall and the force and nature of the winds.
		Snow is used as a thermal insulator conserving the heat of the Earth and protecting crops from the freezing weather.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/s/sn/snow.html (1726 words)

	Snow - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Snow is precipitation in the form of crystalline water ice, consisting of a multitude of snowflakes.
		Snow is commonly formed when water vapor undergoes deposition high in the atmosphere at a temperature of less that 0°C (32°F), and then falls to the ground.
		Tightly packed snow may be used as a construction material in, for example, Inuit snow houses.
	www.gogog.com /project/wikipedia/index.php/Snow (928 words)

	Aboriginal Peoples: The Inuit: Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage
		Inuit living along the northern coast of Labrador are the direct descendants of a prehistoric hunting society that spread across Canada from Alaska and centered on capturing massive bowhead whales.
		Inuit valued anything made of iron because the material was more durable than stone, bone or ivory that was customarily used in making hunting weapons and tools.
		The Inuit population to the north suffered from frequent epidemic diseases during the 19th century causing high death rates and severe reduction in the size of the mission stations.
	www.heritage.nf.ca /aboriginal/inuit.html (1136 words)

	Caribou Inuit
		They differed greatly from other INUIT in their dependence on inland resources, making only occasional visits to the coast to obtain sea mammal products either through hunting or by trading with coastal Inuit.
		A few decades later, the Inuit of the west coast of Hudson Bay began to receive firearms, which allowed them to hunt caribou more efficiently, and involvement in the FUR TRADE gave them an incentive to move to the interior.
		The traditional social organization of the Caribou Inuit was based on family relationships and partnerships, and families frequently moved from one regional group to another.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0001403 (412 words)

	Snow - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		Snow is commonly formed when water vapor undergoes deposition high in the atmosphere at a temperature of less than 0°C (32°F), and then falls to the ground.
		Snow can be also manufactured using snow cannons, which actually create tiny granules more like soft hail.
		Although density of fresh snow varies widely, a guide is that the depth of snowfall is 10 times that of a rainfall containing the same mass of water.
	www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/s/n/o/Snow.html (925 words)

	IGLOOS: North American Native Pre-Contact Housing
		In Thule, the northeastern shore of Greenland, where the Inuit small community was isolated from everyone, and believed themselves the only people in the world until the beginning of the 19th century, large snow domes were built as singing, dancing, and wrestling competition halls for the community during the long night of winter.
		You pass with bowed head along a narrow, roofed passage of snow blocks until you arrive at the doorway, a hole at your feet, which you traverse on hands and knees.
		The Inuit ate about half their meat raw, because for both light and heat in the winter months there were only stone lamps filled with rendered sea mammal fats, no fuel for much cooking.
	www.kstrom.net /isk/maps/houses/igloo.html (1221 words)

	Nunavut 99 - Inuit and The Land As One
		Inuit lived as nomads, moving from place to place in order to follow the migration routes of caribou, seals, fish and birds.
		In the west Kitikmeot Region, the Inuit depended on the migration of the caribou.
		In coastal areas of the Kivalliq, Inuit relied mainly on seal, caribou and arctic char, whereas Inuit on the mainland hunted caribou, geese and ptarmigan, and fished lake trout.
	www.nunavut.com /nunavut99/english/inuit_land.html (1474 words)

	Inuit Homes
		The Inuit used the igloo in the winter.
		The Inuit lived in igloos in the winter.
		Inside the summer tent the Inuit family had berries and eggs that the mother and children had collected while the father was hunting.
	projects.cbe.ab.ca /ict/2learn/jwfech/linksfirstnations/clarke/inuithomes.htm (521 words)

	Climate Justice: Inuit to launch human rights case against the Bush Administration
		Among the problems the Inuit face is permafrost melting, which has destroyed the foundations of houses, eroded the seashore and forced people to move inland.
		Inuit means "the people" and is the generic name given to indigenous people of the Arctic.
		Inuit rely heavily on subsistence fishing and hunting whales, walruses and seals.
	www.climatelaw.org /media/inuit (838 words)

	Inuit art on Cape Dorset, Nunavit, Canada - The Boston Globe
		In the last century, the Inuit, once known as Eskimos and formerly a nomadic people, were resettled by the government to this forbidding region.
		The scene evokes an image of traditional life when Inuit people lived either in snow houses or winter tents, and conducted many of their daily activities on raised platforms.
		Cape Dorset, though, is considered the epicenter of Inuit art in Canada, in part because it has the longest history of printmaking (it was introduced by a Canadian artist in the late 1950s), and a highly evolved infrastructure for marketing the art around the world.
	www.boston.com /travel/articles/2006/08/27/the_art_of_isolation?p1=MEWell_Pos5 (1810 words)

	Polar Quest North and South Pole Expedition 2006
		For heating their houses the Inuit (please notice that there is no “s" on that word because Inuit is a plural word meaning "the people".) use diesel fuel which comes to Resolute by tanker ship once each year, usually at the end of August or early in September.
		The Inuit used small heaters that burn kerosene or iosol (also called white gas) for heating their tents for camping when they are out hunting or fishing.
		Thankfully the Inuit realise that the wildlife is part of their heritage and part of their children's future so they are actively part of conservation programs in conjunction with the Northwest Territories government.
	polarquest.info /faq.php (0 words)

	Montshire Museum: Inuit Culture
		Inuit people not only managed to survive harsh Arctic climates for centuries, they did it in style, using what nature gave them for food, clothing, and shelter.
		Inuit hunters had to be able to escape from bad weather by whipping up an igloo to stay a night or two.
		The Inuit slept in the igloo under soft fur blankets by the flickering lamp that burned whale or walrus blubber.
	www.montshire.net /minute/mm021103.html (766 words)

	Learn more about Snow in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Snow, a form of precipitation, is a crystalline form of water ice, consisting of a multitude of snowflakes.
		Some mountains, even at or near the equator, have permanent snow cover on their top, including Mauna Kea in Hawaii.
		The concept that no two snowflakes are alike is incorrect: in a volume of snow two feet square by ten inches deep there are roughly one million flakes, and so statistically many snowflakes must be visually identical.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /s/sn/snow.html (497 words)

	INUIT SNOW HOUSES
		The snow used to build an igloo must have sufficient structural strength to be cut and stacked in the appropriate manner.
		The best snow to use for this purpose is snow which has been blown by wind, which can serve to compact and interlock the ice crystals.
		The hole left in the snow where the blocks are cut from is usually used as the lower half of the shelter.
	www.websters-online-dictionary.org /definition/english/in/INUIT+SNOW+HOUSES.html (200 words)

	Qitsualik: What the Inuit 'want' : ICT [2004/11/19]
		The reason, I think, that Inuit have preserved their culture so well is that their minds have evolved to feel that life owes them nothing, facing hardship with a kind of stoicism bred into them by their environment.
		The concern of the deepest Inuit mind is to maintain the things that give one joy, while trying to adapt to that which does not.
		She has worked in Inuit sociopolitical issues for the last 25 years, and witnessed the full transition of her culture into the modern world.
	www.indiancountry.com /content.cfm?id=1096409886 (1521 words)

	Aboriginal Peoples: The Thule: Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage
		In the spring, when the ground began to thaw and water accumulated in the pit houses, the people moved into skin tents which would be their homes until the next winter.
		Using special snow knives made of bone or horn, Thule igloo-builders carved blocks of snow and piled them one upon another to create the familiar domed structure so often associated with the Inuit of the Canadian Arctic.
		knives (commonly used by Inuit women) were recovered from the eastern side of the house which led the archaeologists to suggest that this was the women's side of the house.
	www.heritage.nf.ca /aboriginal/thule.html (1642 words)

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		Two keys to remember as we look at the Inuit people are the harshness of the environment and the dependence on the sea and land.
		Considering the limits of the land, it is understandable that the Inuit people have exploited the abundant resources of the arctic seas.
		To generalize, it can be said that the Inuit were an "edge" people who looked to the land and sea, the winter and summer, the appropriate hunting and domestic technologies for living.
	www.mc.maricopa.edu /dept/d10/asb/anthro2003/lifeways/inuit/intro.html (296 words)

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		Inuit men, women, and children wore special clothing to keep them warm.
		Inuit men used their harpoons and kayaks to hunt seal, walrus, whale, and fish.
		Inuit children, parents, and other relatives lived in one shelter.
	www.wou.edu /~kcarlis/Web/inuit.htm (203 words)

	Life in Holman - Clothing and Shelter
		Snowhouses were the primary winter residences for the Copper Inuit, constructed from large snowblocks placed in an "inward-leaning spiral" (Condon p.
		Snowhouses could be quite elaborate, housing several families in domes radiating from a central gathering place which could be used for games, drum dances and stories.
		Skin roofs could be used over snowhouse foundations as the snow began to melt, eventually being replaced by skin tents as the seasons progressed from winter to spring.
	www.virtualmuseum.ca /Exhibitions/Holman/english/life/clothing.php3 (584 words)

	Civilization.ca - Oracle - Canadian Inuit History
		The Inuit are the aboriginal inhabitants of the North American Arctic, from Bering Strait to East Greenland, a distance of over 6000 kilometers.
		They lived in houses made of driftwood and sod, and almost certainly spoke an early version of the Inuit language, Inuktitut.
		This Inuit migration was not a single mass event, but probably involved dozens of small parties of perhaps 20 or 30 people moving east in search of a better life.
	www.civilization.ca /educat/oracle/modules/dmorrison/page01_e.html (720 words)

	ITK: Our 5000 Year Heritage: Our Ancestors
		The most important distinction between what preceded and followed the period in our history that is referred to as "classic Thule culture" is that the Thule people developed the hunting weapons, boats and harvesting skills required to harvest the very large whales of the northern seas.
		Across the back of the Thule winter house was a sleeping platform exactly like the ones used in our camps until around the mid 1960's and what we still use today when we build snow houses while traveling in the winter.
		If someone were to ask the Inuit of today "where did your culture come from?" we would have to say it came from both the Sivullirmiut and the Thule.
	www.itk.ca /5000-year-heritage/our-ancestors.php (0 words)

	humanity.org - voices - inuit
		She awoke wrapped in furs in her own house by a fire.
		When they saw she was a skeleton, they were disgusted and turned and ran away.
		They left the house and went to his two sons.
	www.humanity.org /voices/folklore/inuit (464 words)

	Language/eskimo words for snow derby
		Inuit (also called Inupik) is the best candidate from a folkloric point of view, being spoken most widely, from Greenland to northeastern Alaska, having been written earlier (1742), having about twice as many speakers, and having had longer and greater contact with "Western Civilization".
		Thus "my snow", "your snow", etc., would each be one word in Inuit, a stem form with a possessive affix.
		While English "igloo" meaning 'snow house' comes from Inuit, "iglo" (or "illu") more generally means 'house' or home' in most dialects.
	tafkac.org /language/eskimo_words_for_snow_derby.html (792 words)

	Inuit Art at the Dennos Museum Center
		It is a visual narrative which serves as a vehicle for keeping alive the old ways; the old life of skin tents and snow houses, the nomadic life when seasonal hunting dictated life style and, in essence, survival.
		Many of the artists represented are one of the last generations of Inuit to reach maturity "on the land," before stepping into a modern world.
		Later Houston taught the Inuit to make unique stone cut and seal skin stencil prints and in 1959 the first collection of Inuit prints was released at Cape Dorset.
	www.dennosmuseum.org /exhibitions/inuit (528 words)

	National Gallery of Canada - National Gallery of Canada
		Her art is a reflection on the significance of the land and the family in Inuit life, the joys and hardships of nature and the realities of change.
		When the threat of starvation in the 1960s compelled them to leave the land and move into the settlement of Baker Lake, Tuu'luq acknowledged that she was relieved to have escaped the extremities of her life on the land.
		The exhibition is accompanied by a richly illustrated catalogue, produced by the NGC, with a foreword by Pierre Théberge, Director of the NGC; essays by guest curator Marie Bouchard and Marie Routledge, the NGC's curator of Inuit art, and an afterword by Phoebe Anne Kudja'aq, the artist's granddaughter.
	national.gallery.ca /english/default_179.htm (550 words)

	Exhibition of Inuit Art Opens Jan. 31 / 2004-2005 / Archive / Press Releases / Hope - Hope College
		Twentieth-century Inuit art from the Canadian Arctic reveals the evolution of a dynamic culture still in process.
		It is a visual narrative which serves as a vehicle for keeping alive the old ways; the old life of skin tents and snow houses, the nomadic life when seasonal hunting dictated lifestyle and, in essence, survival.
		Many of the artists represented are among the last generation of Inuit to reach maturity on the land.
	www.hope.edu /pr/pressreleases/content/view/full/3063 (467 words)

	The Yukon, the Northwest Territories and Nunavut : Introduction \| Frommers.com
		The Yukon, the Northwest Territories, Nunavut, and the far north of British Columbia are home to the Inuit, Inuvialuit, and northern First Nations peoples like the Dene, vast herds of wildlife, and thousands of square miles of tundra and stunted subarctic forest.
		And though the Inuit no longer live in igloos, these snow houses are still built as temporary shelters when the occasion arises.
		His written account of meeting the Inuit, over 400 years old, is the earliest on record.
	www.frommers.com /destinations/theyukonthenorthwestterritoriesandnunavut/3048010001.html (949 words)

	The City of Kaktovik Alaska
		We lived in sod houses and the harsh winters were not at all forgiving, making it hard for us to hunt and survive off the land.
		Now we are fortunate enough to have access to certain life sustaining amenities, including modern housing, plumbing, firearms, motorboats and snow machines, all which allow us much more freedom to live and prosper here.
		We are also able to teach our children in our own schools about life in the world, as well as the history and knowledge of their own culture as Kaktovikmuit.
	www.kaktovik.com /ourland.html (0 words)

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