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All About Igloos

All About Igloos. An igloo or snowhouse is a type of shelter built of snow, originally built by the Inuit. Although igloos are usually associated with all Inuit, they were predominantly constructed by people of Canada’s Central Arctic and Greenland’s Thule area. All About Igloos.

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All About Igloos

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  1. All About Igloos • An igloo or snowhouse is a type of shelter built of snow, originally built by the Inuit. • Although igloos are usually associated with all Inuit, they were predominantly constructed by people of Canada’s Central Arctic and Greenland’s Thule area.

  2. All About Igloos • Other Inuit people tended to use snow to insulate their houses, which were constructed from whalebone and hides. • Snow is used because the air pockets trapped in it make it an insulator. On the outside, temperatures may be as low as −45 °C (−49 °F), but on the inside the temperature may range from −7 °C (19 °F) to 16 °C (61 °F) when warmed by body heat alone.

  3. Igloo construction http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aSL9La5ivo How to Make a Perfect Igloo - Ray Mears World of Survival - BBC

  4. More snow! • Puvirnituq Snow Festival in Nunavik, Quebec • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tc-Rj81PAiY • Food sources in the Arctic • http://www.johntyman.com/arctic/inuit102.html

  5. Inukshuk The inukshuk are stone structures put up by Inuit. In the Inuit language Inuktitut, inukshuk means"likeness of a person" or "in the image of man".

  6. Inukshuk • The inuksuk may have been used for navigation, as a point of reference, a marker for travel routes, fishing places, camps, hunting grounds, places of veneration, drift fences used in hunting or as a food cache. • The Inupiat in northern Alaska used inuksuit to assist in the herding of caribou into contained areas for slaughter

  7. Marion Tuu’luq (1910-2004) http://www.herstorycalendar.ca/sample-pages/marion-tuuluq-herstory.html « Marion Tuu’lukq.» Herstory: The Canadian Women’s Calendar.

  8. Marion Tuu’luq

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