Eskimos

1. Eskimos In this presentation you will learn everything to do about Eskimos

2. All About Eskimos This is a good source of information for Eskimo ways of living and how they fed there families and how they lived Alaskan Eskimos are the most numerous and most diverse of all Eskimo populations. Occupying the entire coast of Alaska with the exception of the Aleutian Islands and Southeast Alaska, Eskimos inhabit a wide variety of environments ranging from the North Slope arctic tundras and coasts to the Bering Sea lowlands and the mountainous, forested coasts of South Alaska. Eskimos are known today under a variety of names, "Eskimo" or "Inuit" in Alaska, "Inuit" in Canada, and "Kalaadlit" in Greenland. The geographic extent of their Alaskan territory covers thousands of miles of coastline. To the east, peoples closely related to Alaskan Eskimos occupy the vast expanse of the Canadian Arctic and Greenland, and to the west, across Bering Strait, they inhabited coastal regions of Chukotka.

3. All About Eskimos This distribution, more than 6,000 miles (as the raven flies) across the top of the North American continent, made Eskimos the most widespread aboriginal population in the New World. Throughout this huge region the unity of Eskimo culture is enhanced by their possession of similar languages, similar physical and genetic characteristics, and to a lesser extent, possession of a common cultural base, the core of which is adaptation to arctic and subarctic maritime environments. Technological, social, and ritual practices surrounding the hunting of arctic marine animals are the foundation on which most Eskimo cultures rest. For those reasons Eskimo peoples on opposite sides of the North American arctic find more in common with each other than they do with immediately adjacent Indian groups who are their closest inland neighbors.

4. The Life Of An Eskimo This is a good resource of Eskimo languages and maps of where bouts they live] Eskimo-Aleut is a language family native to Greenland, the Canadian Arctic, Alaska, and parts of Siberia. Also called Eskaleut (Eskaleutian, Eskaleutic), Eskimoan or Macro-Eskimo, it consists of the Eskimo languages (known as Inuit in the north of Alaska, Canada and Greenland, and as Yupik/Yup'ik in western and southwestern Alaska and in Siberia), and the single Aleut language of the Aleutian and Pribilof Islands.

5. A Life Of An Eskimo Eskimo is an exonym of Algonquian origin and is a deprecated name, but is retained to speak of the Yuit-Yup'ik-Inuit as a whole. Within Canada, Inuit is preferred. In Alaska, Yup'ik, Inupiaq, or Inuit is preferred, depending on who is being referred to.

6. Eskimo tribes Traditionally, the Eskimo languages family was divided into Inuit and Yup'ik (or Yup'ik-Yuit). However, recent research suggests that Yup'ik by itself is not a valid node, or, equivalently, that the Inuit dialect continuum is but one of several languages of the Yup'ik group. However, although it may be technically correct to replace the term Eskimo with Yup'ik in this classification, this would not be acceptable to most Inuit. Also, the Alaskan-Siberian dichotomy appears to have been geographical rather than linguistic.

7. Eskimo food FOOD: The cold waters of the Arctic provided the Eskimos witha great deal of their food. They lived on seals (the single mostimportant part of their diet), salmon, cod, whales, and other sealife. On land were caribou and geese in the summer. (You had togo inland to find caribou.) During the winter they hunted polarbears, foxes, and hares. Their favorite foods were seal and cariboumeat, walrus liver, and the skin of whales. SHELTER: In order to find those animals, it was necessary forthe Eskimos to live a wandering life, following their migrations. Generally, they would have a summer home and a winter home. Tents made of skin (seal or caribou) provided shelter during the summer months. In winter, most of them builtsod houses. A dome-shaped snow house was built by somegroups as temporary shelter when traveling or hunting. Thiswould consist of blocks cut from the snow and built upward in aspiral shape. Outsiders would call this an "igloo," although to theEskimo any place for living can be called by that name.

8. Eskimo Tribal Paint CLOTHING: Animal skins provided clothing for the Eskimos;their favorite was caribou because it was warm and lightweight. Lacking caribou they would settle for seal, polar bear, or even Arctic fox. Styles varied from area to area, but inall regions everyone wore the same combination: a hoodedjacket, trousers or leggings, socks, boots, and mittens. Sometimes goggles made from wood or bone were worn. Inwinter two sets of clothes were used. The inner layer would havefur next to the skin. The second layer would have fur on theoutside. Air between the two layers helped keep body heat inand allowed perspiration to evaporate. A single layer wasenough during summers.

9. What Eskimos Ate Its good for different Eskimos and how they live Eskimo (es'kumō) [key], a general term used to refer to a number of groups inhabiting the coastline from the Bering Sea to Greenland and the Chukchi Peninsula in NE Siberia. A number of distinct groups, based on differences in patterns of resource exploitation, are commonly identified, including Siberian, St. Lawrence Island, Nunivak, Chugach, Nunamiut, North Alaskan, Mackenzie, Copper, Caribou, Netsilik, Iglulik, Baffinland, Labrador, Coastal Labrador, Polar, and East and West Greenland. Since the 1970s Eskimo groups in Canada and

10. What Eskimos Ate Greenland have adopted the name Inuit, although the term has not taken hold in Alaska or Siberia. In spite of regional differences, Eskimo groups are surprisingly uniform in language, physical type, and culture, and, as a group, are distinct in these traits from all neighbors. They speak dialects of the same language, Eskimo, which is a major branch of the Eskimo-Aleut family of languages. Their antiquity is unknown, but it is generally agreed that they were relatively recent migrants to the Americas from NE Asia, spreading from west to east over the course of the past 5,000 years

11. Warm In Antartica? This is good for different ways of Eskimos work and live for food Eskimo" is an American Indian word which translates to "eaters ofraw meat." Ironically, scientists put the Indians in a separateanthropological category while the Eskimos are considered moreclosely related to the natives of northern Asia. People we call Eskimos originally came from Asia across a landbridge (which no longer exists) into northern North America (nowcalled Alaska). They gradually spread across the Arctic regions ofthe continent. Eventually they came to live in four countries: (1)the Soviet Union; (2) the United States (Alaska); (3) Canada; and (4)Greenland. They do not use the word "Eskimos lived in some of the world's coldest areas near the Arctic Circle.

12. Eskiom Songs This is a good source of Eskimo songs and what they used to make music and how Much of what we know about the life and culture of the Eskimo people of North America in the early part of the Twentieth Century comes from the Fifth Thule Expedition led by Professor Knud Rasmussen, a Danish anthropologist. The songs and stories given here are extracts from the reports of this expedition, which crossed North America from east of Baffin Land to Alaska. Rasmussen continued across the Bering Straight to Siberia to talk with the Chukchi, who also follow the Eskimo way of life.

13. Eskiom Songs Rasmussenwrote that there is scarcely any country on earth that present conditions more severe and inclement for man than the most easterly parts of the Northwest Passage. Yet there the Netsilik Eskimos for generations knew how to wage the struggle for existence, in such a manner that strangers coming among them would involuntarily receive the impression that here was a people who desired no better hunting grounds than these, the very ones where their ancestors developed that special culture which they have faithfully handed down from father to son. But as some of the extracts show, life could be extremely grim.

14. Where Are Eskimos Now this is good for how Eskimos lived on and how they made there homes. A general term used to refer to a number of groups inhabiting the coastline from the Bering Sea to Greenland and the Chukchi Peninsula in NE Siberia. A number of distinct groups, based on differences in patterns of resource exploitation, are commonly identified, including Siberian, St. Lawrence Island, Nunivak, Chugach, Nunamiut, North Alaskan, Mackenzie, Copper, Caribou, Netsilik, Iglulik, Baffinland,

15. Where Are Eskimos Now Labrador, Coastal Labrador, Polar, and East and West Greenland. Since the 1970s Eskimo groups in Canada and Greenland have adopted the name Inuit, although the term has not taken hold in Alaska or Siberia. In spite of regional differences, Eskimo groups are surprisingly uniform in language, physical type, and culture, and, as a group, are distinct in these traits from all neighbors. They speak dialects of the same language, Eskimo, which is a major branch of the Eskimo-Aleut family of languages. Their antiquity is unknown, but it is generally agreed that they were relatively recent migrants to the Americas from NE Asia, spreading from west to east over the course of the past 5,000 years.

16. Awsome Sites http://www.nativeamericans.com/Eskimo.htm http://www.humanistictexts.org/eskimo.htm http://www.workersforjesus.com/esk.htm http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/society/A0817691.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eskimo-Aleut_languages http://www.mnh.si.edu/arctic/features/croads/eskimo.html

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