Inuit
by Claudia
The Inuit are indigenous people who live in the tundra of Alaska, Russia, Canada and Greenland. In the summer the Inuit’s homes are tents or sod houses. In the winter their homes are igloos. It takes them twenty to thirty minutes to make an igloo depending on the snow.
The Inuit eat raw meat like bow head, whales, seal, fish, walrus, deer called
caribou, musk oxen, polar bears, wolves, foxes, hares, and white whales. The
Inuit hunt in small packs for fish and other animals. That is what they do for a
living. It is hard to find and catch the food.
They craft tools and weapons from the animal's bones, antlers, horns and teeth.
They do not waste any part of the animal. They use everything!
They make their clothes from the skins of animals like seals, foxes, fish and bird skin. They wear jackets called parkas, socks, boots that are waterproof and mittens. To protect their eyes, they wear goggles that are made out of wood. The Inuit tattoo their bodies. When the Inuit drum dance, they wear cloth like clothes.
Where the Inuit live there is a lot of pollution. The government is working to give them new territory. They can govern themselves and keep their culture. The Inuit are not going extinct because there are 100,000 of them left. They are losing their way of life.