Culture
★Social Organization★
The Society was not that important to Inuits.
The Inuits did not have a strong societies because there are very few Inuits. The inuits does not have any laws or anything. Everybody was equel to another because they believed everybody deserved to be equel. However there might bebe a one man or two in each band who is somewhat leader who decides when to move and when to hunt. But group can decide if they want to follow the rule or not.
★Marriage/Children★
Marriage was very important to the inuits.
The Inuits got married very often and the marriage helped to restore the generations.
The men got marriedwhen he knows how to hunt food for a family and women got married when they reached puberty. Man had to go to bride's house disscuss the marriage before actually forming a family. The man could have more than one wife, but it will be difficult to provide all the foods for the families. Moreover, husband borrowed friend's wife when his own wife was sick because he needed wife to tend his clothes and foods.
The children of the inuits were very important to the parents. the children continued their generations and they halped you hunt, gather, make clothes, and others. The children were taken good care of and parents seldomly scolded. children learn skills when they reach eight years old. Girls learned how to set traps and to make and care of clothes. Boyslearned to build snowhouse, identify animal tracks, imitate hunting calls, and use of weapons. Further more, they both learned to handle a sledge and dog team.
The men got marriedwhen he knows how to hunt food for a family and women got married when they reached puberty. Man had to go to bride's house disscuss the marriage before actually forming a family. The man could have more than one wife, but it will be difficult to provide all the foods for the families. Moreover, husband borrowed friend's wife when his own wife was sick because he needed wife to tend his clothes and foods.
The children of the inuits were very important to the parents. the children continued their generations and they halped you hunt, gather, make clothes, and others. The children were taken good care of and parents seldomly scolded. children learn skills when they reach eight years old. Girls learned how to set traps and to make and care of clothes. Boyslearned to build snowhouse, identify animal tracks, imitate hunting calls, and use of weapons. Further more, they both learned to handle a sledge and dog team.
★Games/Hobbies★
When there was nothing to do, inuits played games.
The games were very popular to the inuits because in the winter the families stayed in the house almost the rest of the winter. Moreover, they told eachother, stories of their past legends and stories. when the spring came to Arctic and norther part of canada, inuits went out to play outside.
★Beliefs/Customs★
Beliefs had major impacts on the inuit Society.
The inuits had very strong beliefs and customs which had great impact on the socities.
Inuits believed the spirits helped them or tricked them in to danger. So inuits believed that everything around them had souls, for example seals, caribous, grass, and themselves. they believed that the spirit went to another creature when they died. After killing animals for food and resources, inuits honored them for a minute. Then after they arrived at home, they cleaned the tools they used for hunting and ate the same meat on that day. they were not to mix their food with other food.
As safeguard against evil, the inuits wore a variety of amulets, forexample, the owl's claw represented the strong arms and fish's scale was for good luck charm to catch fish. Shaman were people who could talk to the spirits and they were respected by the group and as well as scared. The women and the sick were taken out of the families and were putted in to the different house. No one was allowed to visit and to talk to. They stayed in there for more than a month than came out.
When a person died, the grave was made with stones and in the grave inuits out whatever he or she used before he or she died. After graving, inuits cleaned everything around them. The names of a child was given by the old ancestors' names who passed away.
Tattooing was seen on women and with unproper tattoo, the women were believed to go to unhappy place after death called 'CrestFallen'. Some men wore labrets, the piece of ivory inserted in the skin at the corners of the mouth or under the lower tip.
Inuits believed the spirits helped them or tricked them in to danger. So inuits believed that everything around them had souls, for example seals, caribous, grass, and themselves. they believed that the spirit went to another creature when they died. After killing animals for food and resources, inuits honored them for a minute. Then after they arrived at home, they cleaned the tools they used for hunting and ate the same meat on that day. they were not to mix their food with other food.
As safeguard against evil, the inuits wore a variety of amulets, forexample, the owl's claw represented the strong arms and fish's scale was for good luck charm to catch fish. Shaman were people who could talk to the spirits and they were respected by the group and as well as scared. The women and the sick were taken out of the families and were putted in to the different house. No one was allowed to visit and to talk to. They stayed in there for more than a month than came out.
When a person died, the grave was made with stones and in the grave inuits out whatever he or she used before he or she died. After graving, inuits cleaned everything around them. The names of a child was given by the old ancestors' names who passed away.
Tattooing was seen on women and with unproper tattoo, the women were believed to go to unhappy place after death called 'CrestFallen'. Some men wore labrets, the piece of ivory inserted in the skin at the corners of the mouth or under the lower tip.
