BAFFIN ISLAND INUIT

Food

CLOTHING

LANGUAGE

SHELTER

• Igloos in winter
• A sod house in the summer
• Pile rocks for shelter or mini-house

LOCATION

• They usually live at the south of Baffin Island
• They mostly live on a rocky terrain
• Some times they live on the north part of Baffin Island

ART

• They sometimes use soapstone to carve statues
• Carvings can be made out of animal bones
• Paintings of animals/human/places/imagination and still life

GROWING UP INUIT

• They go on boating/fishing trips
• Marbles made of rocks
• They play with snow/ice
• They sometimes build snowmen
• Their parents tells them legends of gods or just stories

TOOLS

• They use/makehammers nails and other things
• Spears for weapons

TRADING

• They trade wood because wood is very rare in the arctic
• Fur for warmth
• Animal skin for clothes
• Food for eating
• Weapons ammunition

ARCTIC ANIMALS PART 1

• Seals (leopard seal,spotted seal) for seal oil
• Walrus (for ivory/teeth)
• Dogs(husky dogs) they are used for pulling sleds
• Polar bears(are a hazard for inuit)

ARCTIC ANIMALS PART 2

• Foxes
• Wolves (hazard to inuit)
• Water buffalo
• Birds(puffins,seagulls,arctic tern,snow geese) target practice for kids
• Caribou (for antlers meat and bones for carving)

ARCTIC ANIMALS P.3

• Whales(narwhales,belugas,killer whales)
• Snow hares
• Mountain goats
• Snowy owls

ARCTIC TRADITIONS

• Believes all animals have spirits
• Blames bad luck on displeased spirits

INUIT GOVERNMENT

EXTRA

• The inuit were the last natives to settle on North America