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// Adam Lewis // // Honors Global // // January 26, 2011 // // The Inuit //

// Language- // // Aleut-Eskimo is the larger language family that the Inuit people speak. Aleut-Eskimo is made up of Aleut, Yupik, and Inuit-Inupiaq. Different dialects are spoken in different parts of the tundra. Each dialect is more similar to the others closest to it. Therefore, villages close to each other sound similar while languages spoken in villages that are far away do not even sound alike. //

// Beliefs- // // The old religion of the Inuit people used to be based on the souls of animals that they hunted. These were mostly seals, polar bears, walrus, and whales. When missionaries //came they brought with them Christianity, Catholicism, and Lutheranism. Many Inuit people changes to these religions but others still keep their old religion. Like the Inuits of western Alaska, who have annual ceremonies honoring seals and whales. // Values- // // The Inuit tribes encountered modern civilization in the mid 20th century. Since then they still maintain their ancient ways. Their houses are called igloos, which are made out of snow. The materials they use to build it depend on what season it is. In the summer, it is walrus or sealskin and stone, whalebone, and moss in the winter. Motorboats and snowmobiles have become popular but they still use kayak and dog sleds, probably to keep their culture alive and not forget how their ancestors worked. //

// Behaviors- // // Inuit people are a very conservative people. From a wrecked boat called the Victory, they salvaged enough wood and metal to last them for // numerous years. The story of the how the boat came to them also shows their behavior. When the boat was stuck the captain and his crew abandoned it the Inuit people helped them. They never saw Europeans before but they were still kind enough to help total strangers.

The culture if the Inuit people have changed. Travel for the Inuit people has changed a lot. They now use snowmobiles and motor boats in addition to their odd forms of transportation. Tourism has not changed the Inuit people because they live in cold areas and no tourists would want to go there. Commercialization changed the Inuit people through trade. Now Inuit people have goods that would be impossible to make at where they are. With technology the Inuit people have changed in ways their ancestors would never have imagined. As I said before, they now have faster ways of transportation. It probably also changed their way of thinking because the Inuit people never could have imagined that sort of communication. Works Cited

Alexander, Bryan and Cherry. //BA.0548-13: Inuit congregation leaves the Anglican church after Sunday Service in Igloolik. Nunavut. Canada.//. N.d. Artic Photo, Nunavut. Canada.. //Artic Photo//. Web. 27 Jan. 2011. This picture shows how technology has affected the Inuit people. I used this picture in how the Inuit culture has changed.

Alexander, Bryan and Cherry. //BA.9918-29: An Inuit hunter using an Iridium satellite phone on the Melville Peninsula. Nunavut, Canada.//. N.d. Artic Photo, Nunavut, Canada. //Artic Photo//. Web. 27 Jan. 1011. As a primary source, this photo has helped me see how much technology the Inuit people use. You can see that they have forms a communication like cellphones.

Eber, Dorothy Harley. "Frozen treasures." //Natural History// May 2009: 64. //Student Resource Center - Gold//. Web. 27 Jan. 2011. This journal was important to my research because it told me a lot about the behavior of the Inuit people. From this journal I learned that the Inuit people are very conservative.

"Inuit." //Worldmark Encyclopedia of Cultures and Daily Life//. Ed. Jeneen Hobby and Timothy Gall. 2nd ed. Vol. 2. Detroit: Gale, 2009. 296-299. //Gale Virtual Reference Library//. Web. 25 Jan. 2011. // This source is important because it gives a go over view if the Inuit culture. It has information about almost every topic. //

//Lands and peoples//. Danbury, Conn.: Scholastic Library Pub., 2005. Print. This is a book I found in the library, this is an important document because it says how the Inuit people are becoming more modernized. They did not forget their heritage however; they still travel by kayak and dog sled sometimes.