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    Sioux Tribe and Inuit Tribe It may seen that the Sioux and Inuit tribe have many differences‚ but they also have many similarities. They might live in a whole different area or have completely different climates. They might have almost everything in differences‚ but these two tribes at least have a few thing in common. The Sioux people might eat different food. They might have different ways of transportation. The Inuit people might also have different entertainment activities or hobbies.

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    The Northwest tribes (specifically the Haida tribe) and the Arctic tribes (specifically the Inuit tribe) are very different from each other. To start of thy live in very different climate zones and weather. In the northwest it is usually warm and humid. In the arctic it is usually cold and freezing.In the arctic they have to be very quick and swift to catch whales‚ seals‚ and walruses. In the northwest they also have to be very quick and swift to catch prey. They both have it hard but they manage

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    Have you ever want to know what is under the ocean? Well in the Arctic region it contains some of the world’s largest reserves iron‚ copper‚ lead‚ and uranium. It is more beneficial for the United States to explore oceans because oceans can give us lots of resources such as copper and uranium‚ it has lots of land for us to colonize under the surface. Also it can inspire young people to get careers in important things like science and engineering. This paragraph will talk about how the ocean can

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    Soil and Natural Vegetation Essay When traveling to the high arctic in the Canadian Tundra you can compare the sight of vegetation to traveling to the peaks of the highest mountain range in Canada‚ The Rockies. There are multiple factors you can use to answer why this is natural phenomenon occurs. The soil’s active layer‚ glaciers and snow-caps‚ and the soil in each area not having the four components to become “True Soil”. The cold climatic conditions is one way you could compare the soil and

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    Arctic Mining Case Study Tom Parker‚ 43‚ is now a field technician and coordinator for Arctic Mining Consultants. In the past he’s held various positions in non-technical aspects of mineral exploration. His past experiences include claim staking‚ line cutting‚ grid installation‚ soil sampling‚ prospecting‚ and trenching. For this project Parker will be acting as project manger though this is not his normal role. His responsibilities include hiring‚ training‚ and supervising a team of field assistants

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    Kinship – a social institution The Ju’hoansi people are from Botswana Africa. Their kinship system is definitely a social institution in the eyes of Canadian anthropologist‚ Richard Lee. Lee wrote his ethnography The Dobe Ju/’hoansi based on his fieldwork from the 1960s all the way up to the present day. Lee’s anthropological perspective is a materialistic view and his theory is cultural ecology. Cultural ecology is a theory in which the environment determines the culture. The Ju/’hoansi live in

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    Steckley‚ J. (2008). White Lies about the Inuit (p. 168). Toronto: University of Toronto Press. In White Lies about the Inuit‚ John Steckley attempts to dismantle many popular “lies” about the Inuit by examining their sources in both academia and in pop culture (Steckley‚ 2008). Why is he qualified to write this book? Steckley‚ who holds a PhD in education from the University of Toronto‚ is also the last known speaker of the Huron language (Goddard‚ 2010). He is clearly an eminent scholar who has

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    The Arctic: Environment‚ Economic Development and Security Although many definitions are available‚ the “Arctic” is everything North of the 60th parallel of northern latitude. Canada has three territories and several tips of other provinces which total 40% of Canadian landmass that fits the definition of the Arctic. In this landmass‚ an estimated population of more than 100‚000 Canadians call it home. (The Canadian Arctic‚ 2013) This land and these people have needs and desires that are up to the

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    for the afterlife. Whether it is the Bagisu leaving corpses for wild animals to eat (Beierle 2003)‚ the death taboos of Copper Inuits‚ or Italian Americans carrying a body out of a dwelling feet first so that it cannot see the door and return (Cowell 1986)‚ all cultures must develop methods to deal with the inevitable end of life. The Copper Inuit live in the Canadian Arctic‚ a harsh climate. According to David Damas (1996:1)‚ “Gulfs and straits are ice free for only about 3 months of the year and

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    The indigenous people of the Arctic had a culture that was in many ways very different from that of the people of the Great Plains. Their living styles were also very different to the rest of Indigenous people of the Americas. The Arctic people where known as Inuits and Aleuts. They had to adapt to the harsh Arctic environment‚ and they obtained most of their food by hunting‚ trapping‚ and also fishing. Living in icy tundras‚ the Inuit people were unable to use agriculture for sustaining food. Therefore

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