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My name is Arrluk, which means "Killer Whale", and I represent the Inuit people (Eskimos). We live in Northern Canada, Alaska, Greenland, and some parts of Siberia. As you know, culture consists of various things, those things being: beliefs behavior, values, and language. I would like to inform you about these things within my culture.

The Inuit people have two main belief systems: Animism and Christianity. Animism is the idea that everything single object (living and non-living) has a spirit. This comes into play when the men go hunting. When they kill an animal, they must undergo a series of rituals to "forgive" the spirit and how they killed it out of necessity.
 * Beliefs**

As a bunch of tribe, secluded in very hostile parts of the world, we must rely on our peers, whether they be family or just another guy in the village. This is shown by what some call "gender relations", or how both male and female work together to thrive. The men could not hunt without the warm clothes that the women make, and vice versa. We also like to avoid as much conflict as possible. However, if conflict must arise, it should be resolved soon after starting.
 * Values**

The way our tribe acts is very reliant on both the values and beliefs we have. Our belief is Animism causes us to conduct rituals, and our values tell us it is like to work as a whole unit, as a team. The peacefulness we love causes us to be exactly that; peaceful. However, that be put aside in times of danger. We also need to live off the land, considering that we are not the most technologically advance society, so we live a simple life of hunter-gatherers.
 * Behavior**

The Inuit have two main sections of out language: the Eskimo side, and the Aleut side. Both sides have an immense amount of languages, each having modifications. But overall, its pretty much the same language.
 * Language**

However, some setbacks to our culture would be that it is very cold where we reside, all the way up near the Arctic Ocean/Circle. We are also reliant on the land. Not the land itself, because there are not that many plants to suffice for an entire tribe. The cold tundra does not have many plants, but it does have animals, which is where out diet is mainly focused. This is bad because if the climate changes, it could displace the food supply, therefore displacing us, making us struggle to survive.

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