Inuit

Emerging from the importance of looking at childhood in a global perspective, this essay will reflect and compare similarities and differences between two different cultures Spain and Inuit Canada childrearing practices. In western society, childhood and child rights are understood as a socially constructed, whereas the Inuit indigenous people in Canada acknowledge children’s rights, their participation and entitlement of respect from birth. Baumrind’s parenting styles as well as the ecological…

differences. One of the many tribes is the Inuit. The Inuit {meaning The People} live in Alaska and Northern Canada, and in Arctic areas, where the temperature is below freezing most of the time. They live in igloos composed out of snow, ice, or animal skins. They additionally live in yurts and tents, but they mostly live in igloos. The Inuit were unable to farm because of the cold tundra climate, so they mostly lived on meat and hunting animals. The Inuit were…

as a transnational retail store. A recent HBC commercial portraying Dr. John Rae, a Scottish surgeon who explored Arctic Canada with the help of the Inuit peoples, was released with narration by Les Stroud, a famous Canadian survivor-man. Viewer’s reactions to the commercial have been mixed, with some comments on the YouTube video praising the “Inuit being accurately portrayed” while some believe it is a celebration of colonialism, questioning “how can one group of people claim to have…

et al.). Food insecurity has been a long-standing issue among Aboriginal communities in Canada— specifically in Inuit communities. The factors that have driven food insecurity in these communities differ from those that have driven food insecurity in other countries or other regions in Canada. It is important to determine the root causes of the issue within the specific context of Inuit communities, in order…

There are many different canadian groups there is three Native groups like in Canada. This will be about how the Inuit, Haida, and Souix their similarities and differences. Even though the Native groups are different they have some things in common. The transportation is either they walk or they have dog sleds. They have similar houses, They have man made houses like a tipi, igloos, and wigwams. They all live in Canada. The three live in the Rocky Mountains, North Canada, and the West coast of…

North is a silent ethnographic documentary following a family of Inuits living in the Arctic Circle. Regarded by some as a turning point for documentaries, it serves as a ground for debate around representation and ethics of documentary film. In 1922 Flaherty set out to record the previously unseen lives of the Inuit in snowy Alaska as they struggle to survive in such a harsh environment. Flaherty spent 16 months living with Inuit where he staged sequences of them hunting and building a life in…

against the project. The Muskrat Falls Project is taking place at Lake Melville in Newfoundland and Labrador, which is an ecologically and culturally significant subarctic estuary. The Lake is mostly situated in Labrador within Inuit Territory. Lake Melville is essential to the Inuit community and has provided subsistence and well-being for centuries. It will possibly be contaminated with methyl mercury due to the Muskrat Falls hydro dam if Nalcor Energy goes through with the development.…

make it difficult for anything but the toughest plants, and people, to survive. Partly as a result, Alaska imports about 95 percent of its food, state officials say. The Inuits are facing a lot of problems like global warming, polar bears, and the fact that has to alaska import food . Globing warming is a big problem for the inuits Over the past 60 years, the average temperature across Alaska has increased by approximately 3°F.[3] This increase is more than twice the warming seen in the rest…

difficulties and hostility, especially the case with the Greenlanders Norse. This hostility that the Greenlanders Norse were facing with their neighbors, the Inuit had also influenced the ending of the Viking Age. Unfortunately, to understand the interaction with the Greenlanders Norse and the Inuit, scholars can only turn to archaeological finds and research, again due to the nature of the way both cultures recorded information, or more accurately the…

The Nisga’a agreement was formed when the canadian government and the Nisga’a Nation agreed that Nisga’a had rights to control 2000km of land and to govern themselves. This group of First NAtions were lucky to gain land as well as independence. The Nisga'a national unity grew tremendously because of the agreement, they were finally able to express their culture and religion. This nation gained self determination, and because of this their unity grew. This helped Canada's national unity grow…