The Inuit tribe also was known as “Artic People” or “Eskimos” were the first settlers in the northern hemisphere of the earth, they settled in extremely cold climates located in Canada, Alaska, Siberia, and Greenland. They were some of the first native people of North America and were forced to settled in these cold climates due to hostile Indians and the south having no good land available. Being able to adapt easily the Inuit people have been able to sustain life for their tribe for thousands of years and more to come. Their religion is strongly based on animism along with shamanism animism is the belief that all living and nonliving things have spirits such as people, animals, inanimate objects, and forces of nature shamanism consist of
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The Inuit people celebrate a ritual called the “bladder dance” or “bladder ceremony” and was usually held in a large hut. “The Inuit believed that the soul of the animal was found inside the bladder, so if the bladder was honored and returned to the sea, then the animal's spirit would find a new body.” (firstpeopleofcanada) The annual bladder festival held every winter and marked the opening of the ceremonial season. When the sun sat down on the horizon during the winter solstice families would take and inflate the bladders of seals from the previous hunting year and bring them to the qasgiq (ceremonial house) women, in general, were not allowed into the qasgiq except during special periods. After several days of celebration festivities that consist of singing and dancing it was time to return the bladders to the sea, they did this to honor and appease the souls of the seals from the past hunting season. When the bladders were returned to the sea goddess Sedna “the Goddess of the sea” and one of the most important spirits in the Inuit culture. She is said to be the creator of sea life and to thank her for their creation they turned her into a goddess and she then had control over them. She continues to live at the bottom of the ocean and if the Inuit’s continue to make her happy she would continue to provide the tribe with food. This was extremely important to the Inuit’s as the sea was their main source of food and without a good hunting season, they would not be able to
The Inuit people celebrate a ritual called the “bladder dance” or “bladder ceremony” and was usually held in a large hut. “The Inuit believed that the soul of the animal was found inside the bladder, so if the bladder was honored and returned to the sea, then the animal's spirit would find a new body.” (firstpeopleofcanada) The annual bladder festival held every winter and marked the opening of the ceremonial season. When the sun sat down on the horizon during the winter solstice families would take and inflate the bladders of seals from the previous hunting year and bring them to the qasgiq (ceremonial house) women, in general, were not allowed into the qasgiq except during special periods. After several days of celebration festivities that consist of singing and dancing it was time to return the bladders to the sea, they did this to honor and appease the souls of the seals from the past hunting season. When the bladders were returned to the sea goddess Sedna “the Goddess of the sea” and one of the most important spirits in the Inuit culture. She is said to be the creator of sea life and to thank her for their creation they turned her into a goddess and she then had control over them. She continues to live at the bottom of the ocean and if the Inuit’s continue to make her happy she would continue to provide the tribe with food. This was extremely important to the Inuit’s as the sea was their main source of food and without a good hunting season, they would not be able to