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Question 4: The Importance of Analogy Analogy is a key aspect of archaeology because it is an important method to gaining a wide range of information about the past that is not always present in the archaeological or written record and it informs us on the nature of the archaeological record (Johnson 2010:50). Archaeologists use analogy for even the most basic of interpretation such as the identification of types of artifacts. For example, how do we know an arrowhead is an arrowhead? Or a bowl…

He wanted this story to be portrayed in a way that was true to the inuit people to grasp their culture and to not be offensive about it at the same time. During filming he had many makeshift items in which Flaherty and his team had to carry it across the brutal temperatures including the snow and ice. To make the footage…

and interests are a true universal concept that all humans accept, especially when it comes to killing the animal for food, and assumes that nearly all animal produce comes from an abusive factory or farm. However, some cultures, like the Canadian Inuit community at Clyde River in Nunavut, have a different approach to the issue of eating animals. For example, the Clyde community contends that hunting animals is part of a cooperative spiritual and physical balance of between humans and animals…

The Greenland Vikings disappeared because of gradual climate change. Albeit, inhabiting Greenland along with the Inuits and the Eskimos, the Vikings died sooner than the other two tribes due to the frigid weather. The Greenland Vikings couldn’t adapt to the colder climate and due to an unhealthy relationship with the Inuits and the Eskimos, the Vikings were declined of any help from their neighboring tribes. A more modern example of climate change is the rapidly increasing…

Suicide is an increasingly pressing issue in Aboriginal communities in Canada. Along with self-harm, they a are the leading causes of death for Aboriginal people up to 44 years of age (Source, 9999). From 1999 to 2003, the suicide rate in Inuit regions across Canada averaged 135/100,000, over 10 times the national rate (Government of Canada, 2006). According to a 2008-2010 survey, 22% of First Nations adults report suicide ideation at some point in their lifetime compared to 9% of adults in the…

During this era where the residential school happened, more than 130 churches was found in the country. Where it was meant for the First Nations, Métis, and Inuit children to be forced to be sent to school where they had to forget about their identities, language, and traditions and in return to learn a new language and traditions. Disobey can lead to their deaths. Which is why many children that went to the residential school, almost 85% of the children died while the rest who managed to…

2. The extend of the spread of democracy, rights, and other western ideals have had positive effects on the world because of; the blooming of technologies, the spread of cultures, the equality and protection of minority groups, easy access to goods and services, the progression of human rights, an abundance of job opportunities, and helping the world to become a better safer place. “The blooming of technologies” has had a positive effect on the world because; it has given us the privilege to…

Attawapiskat and Canada’s Aboriginal true crisis by Joseph Boyden Canada’s Aboriginal struggles with lack of education, resources, racism and heritage of residential schools. Boyden start with introduction of Attawapiskat, a compact youth Aboriginal Cree society in northern Ontario which recently suffer from an overwhelming massive suicides tragedy . As Boyden describes it is an alcohol banned reserve which he visited for the first time 21 years ago as professor of Aboriginal programs, that he…

Throughout the New York Times Bestseller, Survival of the Sickest, the author Dr. Sharon Moalem makes many claims in regards to disease and their connections to historical events or causes. Although some of his claims appear to logically connect, others don’t. For example, Dr. Moalem discusses the links between the presence of sickle cell anemia in individuals living near the Mediterranean Sea and their ability to protect themselves from malaria due to this trait. He also speaks of the…

A survey done by Kral, Idlout, Minore, Dyck and Kirmayer (2014) in two Inuit communities uncovered what the communities identified as reasons for the high suicide rates. Although the Inuit are a specific group of Indigenous people, Kahn (1982) identified cultural loss being a community-level risk factor for suicide in all Indigenous groups. Common themes which emerged in Kral et al. (2014)’s discussions with Inuit respondents were the lack of having someone to talk to and being lonely, moreover…