Dene Vs Inuit Tribe Essay

If you lived in a tribe back then, for a feast, would you rather be served the head of a caribou, or the tongue? That’s just a taste of life back then and is just a bit of what the Dene and the Inuit tribes had did back then, only there is more to it. It is to my belief that these tribes aren’t too much similar, but, at the same time, I think they did things that are linked together to what they still do today, and, I think that we may even have started to use one of their old techniques.
Since the Inuit tribes lived in different places throughout the coasts of Alaska compared to the Dene people who lived in the North-Western parts of Canada, that means a different climate, but not always a different kind of home. Both tribes used natural materials, that were around them, to build their homes that kept and gave …show more content…
First off, the different language that both tribes spoke. The Dene people, mostly spoke Tlingit, while the Inuit tribes, mostly spoke Inuit, their own language named after them. The tribes were called a different name because it was a different person with a different, and possible more diverse, mindset who created the tribe. Different languages and names came with that too. Next up, the elevation. They both lived in disparate parts of North America, one in Canada, whilst one living in Alaska. That also means different elevation. The Dene people tribes had the average elevation of 4,750 feet, and the Inuit tribes, due to living in the coastal parts of Alaska, have the average elevation of 675 feet above sea level. Different elevation can change things such as the kind of available minerals, building materials and even types of game(food). Those were just some of the differences of the Dene people from the Inuit, but there are some more