Inuit Netslick Fight For Life 
Raquel Fernandez
February 25th 2015
ANT 101-01
Professor Anne Buddenhagen
Eskimo: Fight for Life
I will be discussing the people of the Canadian Artic known as the Inuit. They once use to be called Eskimos, which means people who eat raw meat; from my observations in the video I believe this name stands true because of their diet, which consists of meat and fat. The particular group of Inuit people I am going to be focusing on is the Netsilk; their name means “people of the place where there is seal. The video I saw in class is called “Eskimo: Fight for Life” which focuses on how the Inuit people have adapted to their harsh environment that they live upon. It also focuses on how family plays a major role upon their survival. The Inuit people were nomadic hunters who lived in small shifting family groups with simple nonhierarchical social organization. They had no formal government and no institutionalized group relationships during this period. The Inuit people lived in homes made out of ice and snow; which is called an igloo. The Inuit people were all related by blood and ties of marriage, they were seen a one big family that worked together. Each member of the family would play a role upon their survival. As seen in the video families slept all together on a caribou skins on a platform made from snow. I think that sleeping together can be seem as odd if you live in the USA, but I believe that this was a clever ideas because it created body heat when snoozing. Since they have no furniture they use their environment, which consist of snow and ice to construct objects. I also think since they are nomadic people they don’t hold much value to objects because they are always moving around. I also believe the only objects they valued were the weapons in which they used for hunting and the clothing of their backs because these were key elements for their survival. Most of the tools handcrafted by the Inuit were made out of stone, or parts of animals, like bone,
February 25th 2015
ANT 101-01
Professor Anne Buddenhagen
Eskimo: Fight for Life
I will be discussing the people of the Canadian Artic known as the Inuit. They once use to be called Eskimos, which means people who eat raw meat; from my observations in the video I believe this name stands true because of their diet, which consists of meat and fat. The particular group of Inuit people I am going to be focusing on is the Netsilk; their name means “people of the place where there is seal. The video I saw in class is called “Eskimo: Fight for Life” which focuses on how the Inuit people have adapted to their harsh environment that they live upon. It also focuses on how family plays a major role upon their survival. The Inuit people were nomadic hunters who lived in small shifting family groups with simple nonhierarchical social organization. They had no formal government and no institutionalized group relationships during this period. The Inuit people lived in homes made out of ice and snow; which is called an igloo. The Inuit people were all related by blood and ties of marriage, they were seen a one big family that worked together. Each member of the family would play a role upon their survival. As seen in the video families slept all together on a caribou skins on a platform made from snow. I think that sleeping together can be seem as odd if you live in the USA, but I believe that this was a clever ideas because it created body heat when snoozing. Since they have no furniture they use their environment, which consist of snow and ice to construct objects. I also think since they are nomadic people they don’t hold much value to objects because they are always moving around. I also believe the only objects they valued were the weapons in which they used for hunting and the clothing of their backs because these were key elements for their survival. Most of the tools handcrafted by the Inuit were made out of stone, or parts of animals, like bone,