Understanding the Inuit: Culture, History, and Modern Challenges
512 Words / ~1½ pages Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt
The Inuit Inuit is a general term for a group of indigenous inhabitants of the Arctic regions of Canada, Greenland, Russia and Alaska. Scientists have found evidence that the ancestors of the Inuit originated in the area of the Bering Strait a channel of sea which separates Asia and North America. The first Eskimo groups crossed the Strait in 3000 BC on winter ice. In the following centuries remarkable technological…[show more]