People in umiaks

Usage examples of inuit.

In a series of airborne sweeps , into Baffin Island, up to Resolute and around the great arcs ofJames and Hudson bays, I interviewed many of these Bay men and their aboriginal clients, the Injians and Inuit who people this volume.

Inuit technology can be recognized in the transition from the American Paleoarctic tradition use of microblades as projectile point insets to the subsequent manufacture and use of bifacially flaked and ground side blades.

The whalers hired the aboriginals to help man the harpoon boats and to trap for furs that could be taken back and sold at highly profitable rates, while the Inuit were, for the first time, exposed to the iron-and-steam-age goods of their employers.

Because market prices and fox populations were both cyclical, on many occasions Inuit came into the HBC posts with no furs to trade or not enough pelts to obtain significant store credits.

The mode was mostly either a rhyme scheme to some ancient Irish air or a free-verse poem chanted Inuit style to the accompaniment of a drum.

Sun Woman, like Amaterasu Omikami of Japan (see story), Allat of ancient Arabia, and Sun Goddesses of Argentinians, Inuit (Eskimo) peoples, and ancient Anatolians, defies the stereotype that Sun deities are always male.