Our unit on American culture

Dustin Baker

I learned a lot about the Inuit culture. I learned about their food, location, weather, and so on. Since they lived in the north the weather they lived in was snow and ice most of the year, and this is what came out of it. They didn’t have guns, but they had harpoons. At the time it didn’t matter that they didn’t have guns because we were in Washington and below while they where in northeast Canada in an area that is called Wager Bay. Inuit hunted seals at the time they had no contacts to white people, so they were never at war with us. They didn’t use fires because there was almost no wood, however they did use candles, and because of that they almost always ate meat raw (They ate seals in the winter and small game and plants in the summer). They started having guns and hunting whales when the whites, I’m not sure which country they were from, started coming from their country’s to trade with them. They traded things like seal skin for things like guns and boats. At that time they almost hunted their food to extinction and also started hunting whales. That’s the last of the information that I gathered other than this, the Inuit are still alive I don’t know how many or where but I know that they’re alive. I know this because I saw a web page about them