Culture

The Inuit culture has many parts.

 * The Inuit tell lots of stories and legends using songs,dances, and drums.
 * Girl use "storyknives' and carve into the ground drawings as the story goes along.
 * Drum dancing is very important for a gathering.
 * Shamans are important to the culture because they can communicate with spirits, they serve as doctors and advisers.
 * Inuit sculptures exist, but only because the Inuit first made tools for their everyday lives. Europeans changed that when they arrived and traded. Today seals are popular for artists. They make their sculptures of stone.
 * They also paint on canvas.
 * Inuit people used to live in igloos, which now provide shelter to hunters and travelers.
 * Throat singing is a traditional form of Inuit music.
 * Arctic animals, land, sea, and weather are part of the culture.
 * Europeans and other cultures started changing the Inuit culture, but a Canadian territory and schools are dedicated to keeping it alive.
 * "Storyknives" are also used to create stories.
 * Inuit people use hand moccasins to tell stories.
 * How Inuit artists sign their work...
 * Artists sign their name on a stone sculpture by carving it into the bottom.
 * For a bone carving you can add ink, shoe polish, or paint to the lines of your carved signature to darken it.
 * On paper sign the front in pencil, and with ink in the back. Make sure the back and front are signed.
 * Sign the back and front on canvas.
 * Groups of hunting families lived and worked together to increase of finding and sharing food.
 * The men fished, hunted, and built houses.
 * Boys help at home until they could hunt. Girls would help their mothers.
 * Inuit groups moved from place to place throughout the year.