GEO 605 Lecture 8: GEO 605 Week 8
15 Mar 2017
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Traditional inuit lives: based on your lives, culture is derived from that. Inuit are primarily a coast people: cannot hunt caribou in the winter. The seasonal cycle: shift in how they are living, copper inuit west, netsilik center. Iglulik east: winter time (jan-apr, primary food supply for all three groups in the winter (jan-apr) is seal, some walrus hunting in eastern (iglulik) regions. 100 people in the communities: spring, difficult time for survival because of undetermined changes (ice and snow melting, seal and caribou mainly and some fish still, fall, breakup of populations. If you hunt caribou in summer, there are holes in its fur because of the bot flies in its skin: that"s wh(cid:455) (cid:272)ari(cid:271)ou (cid:271)e(cid:272)o(cid:373)e e(cid:454)tere(cid:373)l(cid:455) popular duri(cid:374)g fall (cid:373)o(cid:374)ths. Dene: migrating into alaska much earlier than the thule people, dene populations on the pacific, same generic markers, genetically, southwestern and northwestern dene are very similar but culturally different.
