The Arctic Native Americans

1. The Arctic Native Americans By Joe, Matt, Areilla, Hailey, and Max, .

2. Geographical Features • The Inuit and Aleut live in cold climate with a lot of glaciers and ice. • They live in garland ,Canada ,Alaska ,Siberia. • It did not get wormer than 40 degrees Fahrenheit in the summer and a average of -25 degrees Fahrenheit. • Mostly flat no trees and mostly animals as resources.

3. Tribes in the artic • The Inuit have lived in the arctic for 5000 years. • The Aleutian islands were named after the Aleut.

4. The Arctic Cultural Activities Tools and Supplies • Oil was made from seal rubber or fat. It was to light and heat houses. • They made kayaks. • They also made harpoons. • They also made tools from the animals that they hunted. • Sharpened bone tools were used to remove the skins from fish. • They made clothes and tents out of seals. • The skeletons of animals were also used for carving tools from the bones and tusks.

5. Arctic (Housing) • The arctic houses were made entirely of ice. • The houses were called igloos. • The people in the arctic could not have any spaces between the ice because the wind would come through. • They had mini chimneys so the smoke could escape. • During the summer they lived in tents made of animal skin. • Rarely did people live in sod houses. • To get into the igloo they had a little tunnel. • The big igloos sometimes had 2-3 rooms. • The windows in the igloos were made of ice.

6. FOOD The Eskimos hunted arctic foxes, musk ox, snowshoe hares, caribou, and polar bears. The Eskimos also hunted water animals such as polar bears, seals, walruses, and whales. The Eskimos fished through holes in the ice. The Eskimos hunted the land animals with clubs and the sea animals with harpoons. The Eskimos also used the bones and tusks of the animals for bows and arrows. They used the blubber of seals for oil and the skins of the animals for kayaks and clothes.