INUIT 2 Task Inuit + Inuit Children and Marriage

Task:In pairs

Choose 2 aspects

Illustrate different aspects of Inuit life, write about it and illustrate it with pictures.

we will use glogster .

You must make 3 pages about the topic you choose. The pictures must be different from the ones you see on the links. You must choose information from both links.

1)http://firstpeoplesofcanada.com/fp_groups/fp_inuit6.html

2) http://www.saskschools.ca/~qvss/grassroots02/antifaiff/research.htm
3) http://library.thinkquest.org/3877/Generalinfo.html



WORDS FOR SNOWThe Inuit, Aivilik and Igloolik languages have over 30 words for snow - and here they are!





Traditionally, Inuit parents treated their children with patience. They did not hit them.


Ilitsijaqturvik(A place to go and learn)
Tusarvik(A place to listen or hear)

The men were traditionally hunters and fishermen. The women took care of the children, cleaned huts, sewed and cooked.

The Inuit were not strictly monogamous: many Inuit relationships were implicitly or explicitly sexually open marriages; polygamy, divorce and remarriage were common. elders. Marriages were often arranged, sometimes in infancy Family structure was flexible: a household could consist of a man and his wife or wives and children; it could include his parents or his wife's parents as well as adopted children; .