The Haida And The Inuit Tribe

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The Haida and the Inuit do have a couple of things in common, but not always be the same. They both do things differently to survive.

The Inuit tribe went through harsh weather, they lived in the arctic circle. The arctic circle includes Alaska, Canada, Greenland and Siberia. They lived in igloos that they had made by themselves. It was almost always snowing where the Inuit tribe was. The Haida tribe lived in damp climate. It was a challenge to get cedar bark from trees to make baskets and other things that they needed.

The resources that they both used were a bit similar. They both used canoes for fishing, but the Haida’s canoe looked a bit different from the Inuit’s. The Inuit used animal bone or walrus skin and the Haida only used

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