The Inuit

[15goddess15]

What are you views on the Inuit people? Are the changes to their traditional due to modern technology for the better?

[15goddess15]

traditional lives*

[wiggal]

I dont know anything about the people, but i do know that the Northern Inuit dog they have is absolutely stunning!
Saw one at my training last week and have been looking them up and reading about them since!

[ruby27]

I am not particularly familiar with the Inuit, apart from tv programmes. Like all cultures it seems a shame that the technology eradicates some of the traditional ways of being, due to the loss of hunting grounds etc . But, who wouldn't want the choice of improved medical care.
It always seems as if these people don't have the power to make the choices, to choose with technological advancement they would like and which ones they don't want ie Big Mac, and to maked decisions about which ways of traditional life they want to keep.
There was a discussion recently about the tv programme the Tribe and one poster pointed out that the country where this particular culture lived, probably viewed them in the same light as we do new age travellers. I thought this was a very good albeit depressing point.

[Theland]

I always would refer to them as Eskimos, but apparently this is an insult to them. Is this correct?
(Quin The Eskimo? Manfreds?)

[15goddess15]

Yes i believe it is. The name Inuit means "the people." When the first Europeans met the Inuit, they called them Eskimo. This was because the Europeans had heard that name from another Aboriginal (Australian) group called the Cree. In the Cree language, "Eskimo" means "eaters of raw meat." The Inuit people don't like to be called Eskimos. They prefer to be referred to as Inuits or, for one person, Inuk.

[WaldoMcFroog]

Is it true that there's a lottery for the eskimos, and you have to be Inuit to win it?

[15goddess15]

not too sure - sounds interesting though! however in such vast and non industrial surroundings what would they use money for?

[Theland]

"Nanook Of The North," was definitely an Eskimo in my comic!