Adamie, Inookie 27
Alaska Native Claims Settle-
ment Act 36
and the Trans-Alaska Pipeline
36
Amagoalik, John 39
animal skins 10, 12, 13–14, 18,
21, 31, 40, 43
Arctic homeland 6, 9, 10, 12, 13,
14, 17–18, 25, 35, 36, 39, 40
landscape 6, 10, 13, 39, 40
bands 9, 10, 13, 14, 17, 18, 21, 22,
25, 32
Bering, Vitus 30
Bigjim, Fred 43
boats 12–13, 18, 27, 43
kayaks 12, 18, 43
umiaks 12–13, 18
ceremonies 10, 25, 43
and angakoks (shamans) 25
Bladder Dance 25
climate change 40
Cook, James 31
cultural groups 6, 9, 10, 12, 13, 27,
29, 31–32, 35, 36, 39, 40, 44
Alaska Inuit 6, 9, 13, 31, 35, 36,
39, 40
Central Inuit 6, 9, 10, 27, 31,
35, 36, 39, 44
and forced relocation 36, 39
Greenland Inuit 6, 9, 27, 29,
31–32, 39
education 35–36, 43
encounters with Europeans
27–28, 30, 31–32, 43
Erik the Red 27
family relationships 10, 14, 17,
19, 21–22
childrearing 21–22
and formal partnerships 19
roles of women 21, 22
fishing 13, 21, 43
methods 21
Frobisher, Martin 27, 28
and the Northwest Passage
27, 28
Hearne, Samuel 31
homes and shelters 10, 12, 17,
29, 30, 31, 39, 43
and construction of 10, 12, 30
igloos 10, 12, 29, 30, 31
karigi (kashims) 10
karmats 10
tents 10, 39
hunting 10, 13, 14, 17–18, 19,
21, 22, 25, 31, 32, 36, 39, 40,
43
and the International Whal-
ing Commission 39
methods 13, 18, 21
overhunting 25, 32
rituals 13, 22, 25
Inuit Circumpolar Council 39,
40
Inuit villages 10, 14, 17, 25, 35,
36, 43
Ito-Adler, James 43
language 9–10, 29, 35, 39, 43
Lyon, George Francis 30
names for the Inuit 6, 31
neighboring peoples 6, 9, 14,
31, 35
American Indians 14
First Nations 14
Tuniit 9
Nungaq, Anna 39
Parry, William Edward 30
Peary, Robert 29
Pelly, David 17
population figures 32, 39
Pungowiyi, Caleb 39
religion 19, 21, 22, 25
rituals 19, 22
Sedna 22
spirits (inua) 22, 25
Ross, John 31–32
Simon, Mary 40
sleds 12, 13, 22, 29, 30, 43
Smith, Duane 40
storytelling 10, 44–45
Tagoona, Armand 21
Tokienna, Jonah 13
tools 12, 13, 14, 18, 22, 28, 32, 44
trading 14, 27–28, 31, 32
Tungilik, Marius 35–36
Watt-Cloutier, Sheila 40
weapons 13, 18, 21, 22, 28, 31,
32, 43
bows and arrows 21, 28, 43
harpoons 13, 18, 43
spears 13, 18, 21
whalers 32, 35
World Eskimo-Indian Olympics
37
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