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The Inupiat people inhabit the Northern Slope Borough. This is the Northwestern most part of Alaska. It contains the Northern most American city Barrow, known as Utqiaġvik in Inupiaq, the Inupiat’s native language. There are four main types of Inupiat, the Bering Strait Inupiat, the Kotzebue Sound Inupiat, the Northern Alaska Coast Inupiat also known as Tareumiat and the Interior North Inupiat also known as Nunamiut however each clan has its own traditions and customs and within each town there can be 1 or more clans. (cite) There are roughly 13,500 Inupiat in Alaska. The Inupiat are a part of a group called Inuit which includes tribes in Greenland and Canada. They prefer the term Inuit or Inupiat to Eskimo so for the sake of this paper the term Inuit will be used when discussing the people as a whole. All Inuit speak a form of the language
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They eat different foods and have different customs all based on where they live. As mentioned before even their dialects are different depending on which community they live in. Interestingly, inter-marriage also helps to further differentiate Inupiat clans. Explorers and hunters travelled to different parts of Alaska depending on what they were looking for. An example of how non-natives have impacted subculture is by looking at Point Hope which has a large Portuguese lineage due to the Portuguese whalers that use to travel there. This Portuguese lineage is not found as strongly or at all in other Inupiat clans. Another way that the Inupiat differ is how far they would travel away from home during the changing of seasons. Depending on the terrain that they live in some did not have to go as far in the spring and summer for hunting and foraging. This has changed somewhat due to the requirement that children go to school, this will be discussed further later in the
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In www.firstpeopleofcanada.com it states that the the Inuit lived in the Arctic, the Haida lived in Haida Gwaii and Iroquois lived in Manitoulin Island.
Human settlement has been a part of Katmai National Park for a long time. Tribes have been living in Katmai since before the last ice age, before the time of written record. On the Pacific slope lived the Koniag people, and the Peninsular Eskimos lived west of the Aleutian Range. In the Bristol Bay area lived the Aglegmiuts. The Russians invaded soon after, displacing the Peninsular Eskimos and Aglegmiuts. These last native people of Katmai hunted, fished, and gathered,...
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This paper addresses the results of interviews, observations, and research of life in the Ottawa tribe, how they see themselves and others in society and in the tribe. I mainly focused on The Little River Band of Ottawa Indian tribe. I researched their languages, pecking order, and interviewed to discover the rituals, and traditions that they believe in. In this essay I revealed how they see themselves in society. How they see other people, how they see each other, what their values were, what a typical day was etc. I initially suspected that I would have got different responses from these questions but in reality the results in the questions were almost completely the same. I studied this topic because mostly all the people that are close to me are associated in the Ottawa tribe. I additionally love the Native American culture, I feel it is beautiful and has a free concept.
The terms Aboriginal peoples, American Indian, Indian, Indigenous Peoples, First Nations and Native American are used to describe the original habitants in North America and South America. These people have a proud history and heritage and it seems that most of the professors, collegiate and scientists try their best to use terminology that best represents their heritage, “The National Aboriginal Health Organization Terminology Guidelines
Achiote is a spice that consists of ground annatto seeds, which can be in the form of a paste or a powder.
In the eastern Subarctic there was a Native American group called the Cree’s who colonized there. The term Cree came from the French which was a name of one of the bands. The history of the Cree people had a culture with the Ojibwa, or known as the Chippewa. Later on in the nineteenth century they would out that these two groups had different cultural bodies. The case study of the Western Woods Cree happened around the 1750s. At about this time there were 20,000 Western Woods Cree people.
"American Indian & Alaska Native Populations." Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, n.d. Web. 19 Sept. 2012. .
When you mention Alaska and the Arctic Circle, one envisions igloos, dog sleds, and invariably, Eskimos. However, little do most know, that what most refer to as Eskimos is actually a generalization representing three distinct groups. In order to understand the societies that live in this region and acknowledge their cultural differences we must explore the different groups that inhabit this region of which there are two: the Inuit, and the Yupik.
Across Canada and the United States there are many First Nations languages which are a part of the Algonquian language family, all of which with varying states of health. Although these languages share many characteristics of the Algonquian language family, the cultures, systems of beliefs, and geographic location of their respective Nations differentiate them. In being shaped by the landscape, cultures, and spirituality of the First Nations, the language brings the speakers closer to their land and traditions while reaffirming their identity as First Peoples. Using the Blackfoot Nation to further explore this concept, this paper will show that while language threads together First Nations culture, spirituality, traditions and land, as well as their identity, each of these essential components also maintain and revitalize the language.
As the modern world continues to grow, we tend to forget that not everyone moves with its advances and sticks with the old ways of living, preserving their history and roots. One example can be the Inuit, inhabitants of regions in Greenland, Siberia, and Quebec (Jones). Many people have known them as “Eskimos”, however, they deem the term unacceptable and prefer to be called Inuit as it means “the people” (Inuit Culture).
The Eskimo are the indigenous people leaving in the North Pole. They inhabit the area from Siberia (Russia), Alaska (US) to Greenland. There are two sub groups of Eskimo, the Inuit and the Yupik. The Inuit inhabit Canada, Northern Alaska, and Greenland whereas the Yupik live in Siberia and Alaska.
There are salmon fisherman reindeer herders and caribou hunters who hunt and fish around the arctic tundra. The women spend their time sewing fur birch bark baskets and clothes to keep everyone warm, also to prevent frostbite Alaska s in upiat Eskimos have small villages that their ancestors lived in for hundreds of years. They also lived in larger towns built on top of ancient trading sites. More than 12600 inupiat people today live on traditional lands along the northern slope. Also about 6000 live in anchorage In the Eskimo family, everyone has a job to do. Eskimo men ...
Indigenous Knowledge (IK) can be broadly defined as the knowledge and skills that an indigenous (local) community accumulates over generations of living in a particular environment. IK is unique to given cultures, localities and societies and is acquired through daily experience. It is embedded in community practices, institutions, relationships and rituals. Because IK is based on, and is deeply embedded in local experience and historic reality, it is therefore unique to that specific culture; it also plays an important role in defining the identity of the community. Similarly, since IK has developed over the centuries of experimentation on how to adapt to local conditions. That is Indigenous ways of knowing informs their ways of being. Accordingly IK is integrated and driven from multiple sources; traditional teachings, empirical observations and revelations handed down generations. Under IK, language, gestures and cultural codes are in harmony. Similarly, language, symbols and family structure are interrelated. For example, First Nation had a