Inuit Culture : Now and Then
Kidd
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The
traditional Inuit culture introduced
adaptability to very extreme environmental conditions. The skills essential for
the Inuit people were the survival skills mainly hunting and trapping. There
was no chance of agriculture the area from Siberia to northern part of America
to Greenland being icy coasts and tundra. Hunting was the core of the Inuit
culture and history. Today’s life of the Inuit is still the reflection of five
thousand year of traditional culture which had allowed the people to accomplish
the remarkable: the Arctic population.
Inuit Culture Then
The
environment where the Inuit culture
developed had been the inspiration of a mythology full of adventure tales of
the hunting of whale and walrus. Fantastic creatures and ghosts in the Inuit
culture were born from the long time spent waiting for the sights of caribous
and sitting for seals to hunt. The northern lights or aurora borealis gives the
Inuit culture two possibilities; either as a way to see the deceased family
members or friends dancing in the afterlife or as the sinister being which
would come to you and cut your head off if they were whistled to. Many of the
tales are still told to kids and being a way of instilling Inuit culture for
kids today. There were giants that are invisible, animals which souls wanderer,
guide for hunting, and spirit to help the angakkuq
(shaman) heal the sick. The Inuit culture acknowledged spiritual interpretation
by the angakkuq. Sedna, the Old
Woman, was the thing closest to central deity, lived in the sea. The great gods
were living in the waters, which were the main source of food.Inuit Culture Now
Today,
not only the Inuit have moved to more permanent, if not permanent, settlements,
they have lived as part of bigger union and enriched the cultural heritage of
the nation. Some of traditional Inuit culture are adopted in Canada and used as
national symbols. In Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics, the inukshuk icon of the Inuit culture was used as the symbol. Another
large part of it, which is Inuit art such as Inuit carvings, block printing,
textiles, and throat singing have become very popular worldwide as well as
their artists.
Inuit culture, as one of the most genuine cultures, has been
and will always be strongly enriching the world’s cultural heritage.
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