Algonquians mostly lived along the river where they could go fishing and hunting. The authors said, “The hunting parties were traversing a well-watered and heavily forested landscape which white men would one day call Maine” (pg 5). They used to be called as “Penobscot” or “people of the white rocks country”. Their land marked the northern limits of Indian farming because late thaws and early frosts let them make only a little corn, squash, and beans (pg 6). In addition, the time-honored habits of fishing and hunting on which their survival depended were the main aspect for the annual change between seasonal camps up and down the Penobscot River valley (pg 6).
The first people of the Arctic, hunted walrus and eat dogs when they went hungry, they also hunter caribou and fish in small groups. The Inuit followed the wales, seals and caribou. The technology was a great difference between the native groups. The people of Atlantic Canada for example constructed fish traps, made bows and arrows, they also made spears, clubs and long stemmed pipes. They made birchbark canoes, show shoes and the unique technology of the toggle head spear.
Its name comes from Mahlemuts, an Alaskan tribe that would raise and cared for them. (terrificpets) 2000 to 3000 years ago the Eskimos of Alaska highly valued the dogs as they were their only form of transportation. They pulled not only light traveling sleds, but they also hauled heavy loads of food and supplies for the Arctic people. The Alaskan malamute has a thick, coarse guard coat. The undercoat is dense, from one to two inches in depth, oily and woolly which protects them from cold weather.
Traditionally, bragging was believed to tempt the animals to avoid that hunter and anyone who hunts with him and will potentially deprive the family and community in which they live from food. The men of the Inuit people were the hunters for their meat supply which was their main source of food. The Inuit men did most of the work like hunting and building. The women cooked, sewed, made fishing nets, and took care of the children. The women also made roofs for the houses by tanning hides and harvested food and preserved it.
While banded together in the winter months, Inuit’s practice healing rituals and ceremonies as a significant part of their social life. During the summer months, the Inuit’s disperse out of the groups and collect berries and roots while small groups of men go out fishing. Having minimal people in a group is a key to having a successful hunt. Two practices that people of different cultures may not agree with that the Inuit culture practices are Infanticide and Geronticide. Infanticide is the practice of killing babies if they are deformed, or if the mother is
The Eager Beaver In the United States, the beaver is one of the largest members of the rodent family. This animal can manipulate the environment to suit its own needs and can even construct its own home. Beavers are vulnerable to predators when they are on dry land, so they need deep water for safety. If nearby water is not deep enough, a beaver will build a dam to make the water deeper. A beaver dam can be very large and can contain thousands of pieces of wood cut by the beaver.
When we hear the word “inuit” we inevitably think of people living in igloos, fishing in a hole made in the ice and wearing fur coats. Though it’s true that the Inuit have long been living such a traditional life, essentially nomadic, in strong relation to nature, the last decades provided huge changes in the way these peoples’ lives were ruled and especially through the last major change, occurred less than ten years ago, the creation of Nunavut territory. Nunavut has become the largest and newest territory of Canada when it was separated officially from the Northwest Territories on April 1, 1999 via the Nunavut Act and the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement Act. It resulted in the first major change to Canada's map since the incorporation of the new province of Newfoundland and Labrador in 1949. Nunavut means 'our land' in Inuktitut, the language of the Inuit.
Habitat: Range: They spend their entire life associated with pack ice. Females may prefer ice along the shoreline while others prefer moving sea ice at the floe edge -usually within 180 miles of shore. Diet: Eats mostly ringed and bearded seals. They will occasionally eat other mammals, eggs, vegetation and beach-cast carrion. Polar bears don't drink water.
Today Greenland’s population is around 55,000, 85 percent of whom are Inuit (Caulfield: 1997, 1). the national language is Greenlandic, which is a branch of Inupik, or Eskimo language. There are three dialects according to the region in which they are spoken, such as West Greenlandic, East Greenlandic and Polar-Eskimo. Hunting, along with fishing is fundamental to their livelihood. Today, the Inuits are highly dependent on traditional methods of obtaining food through hunting and fishing.
Logistic growth rate decreases when the population number is at carrying capacity. The carrying capacity is defined as the maximum population size a certain environment can withstand. Many things can change this like their habitat resources, weather, and environment itself. A great example in our book is the fur seals. For a time their population remained low but after hunting was controlled their population increased.