Inuit

To start off, these activities create physical and mental challenges that a traditional sport would not present. For an example, the Inuit people have a game called the toe walk. The objective of this game is for the person to walk as far as they can with their toes curled under. This activity was created to keep blood circulation through the toes in order to prevent frost bite. At first…

Southwestern Indians make baskets from tightly coiled sumac or willow wood, and Northwest Coast Indians typically weave with cedar bark, swamp grass, and spruce root. Northern Indian tribes like the Ojibwe and Dene craft birch bark baskets, and the Inuit even make whale baleen baskets. As native people were displaced from their traditional lands and lifestyles, their traditional tribal basket weaving styles started…

180,000 Aboriginal Peoples in Canada, who were impacted by the Indian Residential School System. This June 21st will mark the 20th anniversary of National Aboriginal Day which celebrates culture, tradition, heritage and achievement of First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples in Canada. This year UFCW Canada has worked diligently to create a public awareness campaign focused on reconciliation in the workplace and in the community. To further the Final report released by the Truth and Reconciliation…

created out of the imagination of the writer and other recorded document of real life event. Audiences who knew nothing about Native Americans tribes of the north learned about lives of the Inuit. It shows a way of life that was slowly disappearing according to Flaherty as he began to document the daily life of an Inuit family. Reel Injun takes a closer at Hollywood’s influences on Native American people through film. Exploring the stereotypes of the savage Indian and spiritual wisemen who is…

rare type of head and neck cancer. It starts in the upper part of your throat, behind the nose. This area is called the nasopharynx. The nasopharynx is precariously placed at the base of your skull, above the roof of your mouth. Your nostrils open into the nasopharynx. When you breathe, air flows through your nose into your throat and nasopharynx, and eventually into your lungs. Nasopharyngeal cancer is also called nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC). Scientists are not sure what exactly causes…

Indigenous or Aboriginal they both formally apply to the same groups of people which is defined as “Descendants of the original inhabitants of North America. The Canadian Constitution recognizes three groups of Aboriginal people Indians, Métis and Inuit. These are three separate peoples with unique heritages, languages, cultural practices and spiritual beliefs” (Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada 2012). Seeing the many different Aboriginal cultures that are in known in Canada, they may share…

Finding Our Way: The Importance of Culture One influential writer of the 20th century, Octavio Paz, once stated, “Every view of the world that becomes extinct, every culture that disappears, diminishes a possibility of life” (162). All cultures around the world teach us that different ways of understanding and interacting with our environment exist and that no one way is superior than the other. Cultural diversity in society exposes people to different ways of thinking and makes the world a…

to midterms and stress, we all fell apart and took out our frustrations on one another. As discussed in class, and covered by Andrew Solomon, in “Pupations,” I feel like my roommates and I were living just like the Inuit (Eskimo) peoples of Greenland. Andrew describes the lives of Inuit as hard, and in order for them to survive they have to out and hunt. They are usually big families that share the same space, during the months of no sun; they do nothing but watch the walls melt (209). Andrews…

Poverty is an issues that is widespread across the world, the learning centre 28, with a short video and article from Paul Solman, countries with smaller wealth gap touches on the poverty gab where is shows that poverty is found worldwide (2011). However it constantly seems to be an issue that is hidden under the rug. This makes spending the last few classes on poverty a different and sometimes difficult topic to approach. This class is approaching a subject that most classes would avoid, nor…

Accommodation and health have a direct linear relationship. Poor and overcrowded housing both directly and indirectly associated with communicable diseases, accident and injuries, psychological trauma as well as social dysfunction. This overcrowding and poor housing quality may cause various diseases through exposure to secondhand tobacco smoke or to exposure to the ill family member in close confine, such as cancer, hepatitis, rheumatic fever, asthma and most importantly tuberculosis (TB),…