BAFFIN ISLAND INUIT

FOOD

• The Baffin Island Inuit and the other Inuit all ate raw food
• They hunt for their food all year round even in the cold harsh winter
• They are very skilled hunters
• Some of the things they ate are:
• Seals, walruses, beluga whales, narwhals, caribou, musk oxen and lots more

CLOTHING

• The Inuit invented parkas
• They make clothing from animals
• Each tribe has different kinds of clothing designs
• They use things like polar bear fur to seal skin
• Needles used to sew are made by ivory, bones

SHELTER

• The shelter they use are called igloos
• Warm homes are made from snow and ice in the winter
• Igloos don't have to be all made from ice and snow
• In summer igloos are made from animal skin stretched over a frame
• The frame can be made from drift wood or whale bones

TRADITIONS/CULTURAL BELIEFS

• They believed... In animals having spirits
• They also believed when a spirit dies it goes to another world, spirit world
• They blamed bad weather, bad hunts and illnesses on displeased spirits
• There are certain guidelines they follow to keep spirits pleased

GROWING UP AS INUIT

• The children were very creative
• The lower jaw of a rabbit can be a sled
• Caribou bones can become toy airplanes
• They played soccer with balls stuffed with dry grass from the tundra

GROWING UP AS INUIT

• They usually lived without electricity and running water
• Marbles can be rocks from a coastline
• Imagine us building our own toys!

ANIMALS

• The leopard seals/spotted seals that are an important source of clothing and food
• Birds such as puffins
• Narwhals and such that are hunted with harpoons
• Watch out! Polar bears can be anywhere blending in the snow and ice

ANIMALS

• The orcas that hunts in the frozen water
• Caribou that are a source of food
• Wolves with snowy white fur
• Arctic foxes that looks like the Arctic wolves

TRADING

• The Inuit traded at Hudson Bay
• The Inuit would use sleds with huskies to carry their load

LANGUAGE

• The Inuit learned everything in English when school was introduced to them
• Some Inuit speaks Inuktitut and some speaks Yupik and a few speaks English
• These 2 languages are now the main language for 80 per cent of Inuit house holds

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