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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TigerPaw who wrote (10103)	3/1/2007 11:47:09 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36917

Why didn't the Inuit leave? They were hunter/gatherers, not farmers. Stone-age people. They never built ocean-going boats. Anthropological analysis WIKIPEDIA. The Inuit were traditionally hunters and fishermen, living off the Arctic animal life. They hunted, and still hunt, whales, walruses, caribou, seals, polar bears, musk oxen, birds, and in lean years any other less commonly eaten animals such as foxes. The Arctic has very little edible vegetation, although some Inuit did supplement their diet with seaweed and other plants. Sea animals were hunted from single-passenger, covered seal-skin boats called qajait (singular qajaq) which were extraordinarily buoyant, and could easily be righted by a seated person, even if completely overturned. Because of this property, the Inuit design was copied—along with the Inuit word—by Europeans who still make and use them under the name kayak. Inuit also made umiaq—larger, open boats made out of skins and bones for transporting people, goods and dogs. In the winter, Inuit would also hunt sea mammals by finding, or sometimes making, the aglu (a breathing hole) in the ice and waiting for the air-breathing seals and walruses to use them when they needed air. According to Inuit tradition, they learned to do this by observing the polar bear, who hunts by seeking out holes in the ice and waiting nearby. en.wikipedia.org