Eskimo+Village




 * The Eskimo Village was a big attraction at the World's Fair in Chicago 1893. Traveling down from the Artic Circle, Inuits and Esquimaux came to entertain and educate the people of America at the fair while living there.**

 ** Our clothing and food  **   ** We hunt and fish for all of our food. **** Whales, walruses, caribou, seals, polar bears, muskoxen, birds, and at times other less commonly eaten animals such as foxes. Our diet is high in protein and very high in fat. We consume 75% of our energy from fat. There arent a lot of plants in the arctic, but when they’re availiable we gather: grasses, tubers, roots, stems, berries, and seaweed ** ** We make clothes and footwear from animal skins, sewn together by needles made from animal bones and threads made from other animal products such as sinew. Our anorak s (parkas) are similar to the winter coats worn by you americans. Womens parkas are usually bigger to protect their babies from harsh winds. Our boots ( kamik or mukluk ) are made of caribou or sealskin, and designs are different for men and women.

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  ** <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Our religion   ** ** ** <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Our Society  ** <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> Our religion is based on the belief that spirits and souls exist in animals and plants. This is called Animism. Also some of the people in our community believe in Shamanism. This is the belief that you can communicate with the spirit world. As you can see, our religions were bases heavily on mythology and spirits.

<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">**Our society has a strong gender component. The men are either hunters or fishermen. The women take care of the children, clean huts, sew, process food, and cook. However, some women hunt out of necessity or as a personal choice. At the same time, men that are away from camp for several days would be expected to know how to sew and cook. <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">a household usually consists of a man, his wife, and their children. But some households could have a bigger extended family.**

<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">  <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">**<span style="font-size: 28pt; color: black; font-family: 'Bradley Hand ITC'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Famous Inuits   **<span style="font-size: 28pt; color: black; font-family: 'Bradley Hand ITC'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">** <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Some Inuits, after visiting the world's fair became famous, such as  **** <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Columbia  ** ** <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Eneutseak daughter of Esther Eneutseak. Columbia was born at the Chicago World's Fair in 1893 and was also the first Inuit actress to ever be in a movie, which allowed more Inuits to be in books and in Hollywood films. Her and other Inuits attended at least 8 more World's Fairs after that and entertained at a variety of places such as: museums, fairs, circuses, amusement parks, etc. Besides providing us with cultural diffusion, the Eskimos also showed that they should all be treated the same and that they were just 'items on display'.

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