Inuit+People

=//Inuit People //= ===Inuit people live in the arctic regions of the world including Alaska, Greenland, the Northwest Territories, Nunatsiavut, Nunavut, Nunatukavut and Siberia. They speak the Inuktitut language. Inuit means 'the people' and an Inuk is a person who is an Inuit. Most of the ways that the Inuits have adapted to their environment are behavioral adaptations. This means they have adapted to survive with the resources they have got by utilising them. Prior to Westernisation, the Inuit people made the most of their situation like this.....===

= Housing =

= **Food** = ===Seeing that the Inuits lived in such cold climates, not alot of vegetation grew around the areas they lived in. They were big hunters and fishers so they lived mostly on a high fat and protein meat diet which was about 75% of their dietary total. They hunted whales, especially bowhead whales, walruses, caribou, seals, polar bear, muskoxen, birds, and they would rarely eat the arctic fox. They hunted sea animals through something called an aglu, a breathing hole in the ice. When they did eat plants they were things like, grasses, tubers, roots, stems, berries and seaweed.===

= **Transport** =

They built boats out of seal skin and wood. This was known as a kayak. They had sleds pulled by dogs. They used huskys to pull the sleds.
= Clothing = ===The Inuit people relied heavily on animal skin and pelts. They made animal bones into needles which they used to sew things with using, for example, sinew as their thread. Because the Inuits lived in such a cold climate their clothing had to be warm and also water proof. They wore animal fur and skins to keep warm and dry. Womens Parkas were made extra large so that they could carry their babies on their backs to sheild them from the tough weather conditions. Boots were usually made from caribou or seal skin. They increased waterproofing by working animal fats into the outside of the garments they made.===

﻿Modern Inuits
===﻿Inuit people still exist today, and the ways they live have changed hugely. They have turned towards a more western way of living especially with housing, clothing and even food although they still hang on to many of their traditions, such as music, dance and mythology for example. Many areas around the arctic still speak the Inuit langage. ===