Beyond Our Borders: The Inuit

Beyond Our Borders

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• Beyond
• Our
• Borders
• Inuit

[ghostwriter511]

Awesome series, very informative, and obviously well researched.

BTW, I love the chalkboard, it makes a great background for this type of vid.

[AdamHintz]

The chalkboard is a great back drop. I bought it for twenty bucks for homeschooling the kids.

[hippiending]

great series! more!

:)

[AdamHintz]

I hoping to have something up by the end of the weekend. :)

[themajikat]

In one of my anthro classes we did an analysis of who the ideal Native hero would be, according to the statistics of the ones that appear in the offical canadian book of heroes: male, diplomatic/war-chief, from great lakes and st.lawrence valley region, from the 18th or 19th centuries.

Also, did you know that it was the Unuit who brought the bow and arrow to the Americas when they came over?

[kessest]

this one is particulary interesting to me cause i'm part inupiaq and whats funny about this is that my mom (eskimo side of family) had paranoid schzophrenia and like you said someone with a mental disablity might be a shaman

but i'm lucky i did'nt inherit that

oh around 2:02 another reason why they could eat almost olny meat is that eskimos have a adapted digestive system cause i heard white explorers tried thier type of diet and had probelems with it, i'm not sure what they were though

[bflanger]

The movie Atarnajuat - The fast runner gives further insight in the Inuit culture.

[SubtUtiles]

very interesting, thanks! I guess the problem of sustainability and balance becomes trcker as the size of the groups (or the frequency of intercation between groups) increases. best, a.

[cemtex1]

ha ha ha i was gunna say that i wonder if they would backspin using a kyack but they a great set of people.

[ItsFilthy]

Also they have stories that seem to reference another group of people being there and eventually leaving...or something like that. Really interesting stuff.