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    Linda Alchin’s article Inuit tribe‚ explains the culture‚ geography‚ and resources of the Inuit tribe and also the Inuit tribe’s traditions and history. Infoplease‚ on the other hand‚ has all information needed for both the Inuit and the Bedouins. Both tribes had a very big difference in their location‚ which caused different weathers. Both the Inuit tribe and the Bedouin tribe had a quite different geography‚ which caused different weathers. According to Inuit tribe‚ the Inuit tribe lived in a very

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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 Adaptation of the Inuit (Eskimo) People: Cultural and Biological The Inuit people are also known as Eskimos. They have lived in the Artic area; the Tundra‚ where the climate is cold and too severe for trees to grow‚ for over a thousand years. Over the thousands of years living in the Artic environment‚ the Inuit people have adapted culturally and biologically. Among the biological adaptations‚ their bodies altered permitting them to adapt to the environment in five ways. In addition to biological

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    preparation 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

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    HOMEWORK 1: Beholding Eye & Arctic Inuit Irah Boncaros Geog 2: Online Cultural Geography January 22‚ 2017 Ancestral Diet Gone Wrong 1. After reading Marla Cone’s article‚ Ancestral Diet Gone Wrong‚ I knew other countries that have been affected by their environmental surroundings such as Asia or Africa‚ but I did not know that people from the Arctic were affected by their physical and environmental surroundings. 2. The climate changes in Arctic affects the people living in Arctic

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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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    Assignment title: Love and Culture; A study of relationships among the Tamil‚ Fulbe‚ Inuit and Fiji Communities Module/course: ANTH150 - Identity and Difference: Introduction to Anthropolo It is said that people will forget what you do and say but they never forget how you make them feel. Love describes an emotion‚ act or thought. Love means different things to different people. Love becomes even more complex when studied in the cultural setting. Most cultures have their unique way of not

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    I chose to do my research paper on land claims. In this paper I will give an assessment of the James Bay and Northern Quebec land claim final settlement as well as compare it with the Labrador Inuit land claim. I will talk about the participants in the negotiations‚ as well as compensation recieved. I will also describe some of the implementation procedures as well as land regimes. Finally I will discuss some of the third parties involved as well as resource revenues allocation.

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    common‚ but have a lot of differences too. These are some of my differences and similarities on the Inuits and Iroquois people. There will be a lot of information on in here about the Inuits and the Iroquois people like their clothes‚ food‚ and housing. The Inuits and Iroquois houses are very different from each other. In the Inuits tribe they have Igloo’s made out of big ice blocks. The Inuits Igloo’s are a lot different than the Iroquois. These Iroquois have a house made out of wood and tree

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    Ilagiit and Tuq ∏ uraqtuq Inuit understandings of kinship and social : relatedness Paper prepared for First Nations‚ First Thoughts‚ Centre of Canadian Studies‚ University of Edinburgh Christopher G. Trott Native Studies Department‚ University of Manitoba ©2005 Anthropological understandings of Inuit kinship have focused on the Inuktitut concept of ilagiit‚ which has generally been understood as equivalent to the English concept of “kindred” (both in extended and more limited forms). This has

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