Inuit

Inuit: Encyclopedia II - Inuit - Early history of the Inuit

The Inuit are the descendents of what anthropologists call the Thule culture, a nomadic people who emerged from western Alaska around 1000 AD and spread eastwards across the Arctic, displacing the related Dorset culture (in Inuktitut, the Tuniit). Inuit legends speak of the Tuniit as "giants", people who were taller and stronger than the Inuit, but who were easily scared off and retreated from the advancing Inuit. Researchers believe that the Dorset culture lacked dogs, boats and other technologies that gave the expanding Inuit society a large advantage over them. By 1300, the Inuit had settled west Greenland, and finally m ...

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Inuit: Encyclopedia - Amaguq

In Inuit mythology Amaguq is a trickster and wolf god. Other related archivesInuit mythology, trickster, wolf

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Inuit: Encyclopedia - Cape York meteorite

The Cape York meteorite, which collided with Earth nearly 10,000 years ago, is named for Cape York, the location of its discovery in Greenland, and is one of the largest meteorites in the world. It was primarily made up of Iron and Nickel metals and weighs over 50,000kg, and was believed to have broken up into three major pieces, known to the Inuit as Ahnighito (the Tent), weighing 31 tons, the Woman (2½ tons), and the Dog (½ ton). For centuries, Inuit living ne ...

Inuit: Encyclopedia - Underworld

Underworld - Aboriginal mythology. Beralku Underworld - Akkadian mythology. Ereshkigal Nergal Underworld - Babylonian mythology. Kurnugia Underworld - Buddhist mythology. Naraka (also Neraka) Underworld - Celtic mythology. Annwn Mag Mell ...

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Inuit: Encyclopedia - Tribal

Tribal can refer to someone (for example, a Tribal chief), a culture (i.e. the Cherokee culture) or a society (for example, the Inuit tribal government) based upon or relating to, tribes or clans. Tribalist as an attitude emphasizes ethnic identity or pride in a cultural sense, as opposed to folkish ideologies focused on race. In popular culture, tribal refers to a type of design or image that is loosely influenced by artwork of indigenous peoples ...

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Inuit: Encyclopedia - An Instinct for Dragons

An Instinct for Dragons is a book by University of Central Florida anthropologist David E. Jones, which seeks to explain the apparent universality of dragon images in the folklore of human societies. In the introduction, Jones conducts a survey of dragon myths from cultures around the world, and demonstrates that certain aspects of dragons or dragon-like mythical creatures are found very widely. Remarkably, even the Inuit have a reptilian dragon-lik ...

Inuit: Encyclopedia - Malina

Malina is a solar deity in Inuit mythology. She is found most commonly in the legends of Greenland. Legends about Malina link her closely with the lunar deity Anningan, her brother. Malina is constantly fleeing from Anningan as the result of strife between the two (legends vary as to the cause). Their constant chase is the traditional explanation for the movement of the sun and moon through the sky. Malina - Story. According to Inuit mythology, Malina and her brother Anningan or Aningaaq lived toget ...

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Inuit: Encyclopedia - Alaska Natives

Alaska Natives are indigenous peoples who live in what is now the U.S. state of Alaska. They include Inuit (specifically Inupiat) and Yupik Eskimos, Aleuts, and several Native American peoples. Alaska Natives - History. In 1918 the Alaska Native Brotherhood was founded. In 1971 Congress passed the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act which settled land and financial claims and provided for the establishment of 13 Alaska Native Regional Corporations to administer those claims. Similar to the status of the Can ...

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Inuit: Encyclopedia - Anik satellite

The Anik satellites are geostationary communications satellites launched by Telesat Canada for television in Canada. In Inuit Anik means "little brother". Anik satellite - The Satellites. Anik satellite - Anik A. The Anik A satellites were the world's first national domestic satellites. They gave the CBC the ability to reach the Canadian North for the first time. Each of the satellites was equipped with 12 C-band transponders, and thus had the capacity for 12 colour telev ...

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Inuit: Encyclopedia - Ulu

An ulu (Inuktitut syllabics: ᐅᓗ) is an Inuit woman's all-purpose knife. It can be used for applications as diverse as skinning and cleaning animals, cutting a child's hair, cutting food and if necessary trimming the blocks of snow and ice used to build igloo's. Traditionally the ulu was made with a caribou antler handle and slate cutting surface, due to the lack of metal in the Arctic. The handle could also be carved from bone, and wood was sometimes used when it was available. In certain areas, such as Ulukhaktok (Holman, Northwest Territories) ...

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Inuit: Encyclopedia - Adlivun

In Inuit mythology, Adlivun (those beneath us; also known as Idliragijenget) refers to both the spirits of the departed who reside in the underworld, and that underworld itself, located beneath the land and the sea. The souls are purified there, in preparation for the travel to the Land of the Moon (Quidlivun), where they find eternal rest and peace. Sedna, Tornarsuk and the tornat (spirits of animals and natural formations) and tupilak (souls of dead people) live in Adlivun, which is usually described as a frozen wastel ...

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Inuit: Encyclopedia - Yupik

The Yupik or, in the Central Alaskan language, Yup'ik, are indigenous or aboriginal peoples who live along the coast of western Alaska, especially on the Yukon-Kuskokwim delta and along the Kuskokwim River (Central Alaskan Yupik), in southern Alaska (the Alutiiq) and in the Russian Far East and St. Lawrence Island in western Alaska (the Siberian Yupik). They are Eskimo and are related to the Inuit. The Central Alaska Yup'ik are by far the most numerous group of Yupik. The Central Alaska Yup'ik who live on Nunivak Island ...

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Inuit: Encyclopedia II - Inuit mythology - Anirniit

The Inuit believed that all things had a form of spirit or soul (in Inuktitut: anirniq - breath; plural anirniit), just like humans. These spirits were held to persist after death - a common belief present in practically all human societies. However, the belief in the pervasiveness of spirits - the root of Inuit myth structure - has consequences. According to a customary Inuit saying "The great peril of our existence lies in the fact that our diet consists entirely of souls." By believing that all things - includi ...

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