FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY ORIGINS OF EARLY PEOPLE IN THE AMERICAS
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Inuit
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Lakota
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Kwakiutl
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Pueblo
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Detailed explanation-1: -Some early North American settlers made their home in the far frozen north of North America. These people are called the Inuit (sometimes known in the past as Eskimos). From early times, the Inuit adapted their way of life to the frozen land and sea of the Arctic.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Inuit have traditionally been fishermen and hunters. They still hunt whales (esp. bowhead whale), seal, (esp. ringed seal, harp seal, common seal, bearded seal), polar bears, muskoxen, birds, and fish and at times other less commonly eaten animals such as the Arctic fox.
Detailed explanation-3: -Inuit are Indigenous people of the Arctic. The word Inuit means “the people” in the Inuit language of Inuktut.
Detailed explanation-4: -An igloo, also known as an iglu, comes from the Inuit word for ‘house’ or ‘shelter’. It was traditionally associated with Inuit’s when they went on their hunting trips and they built a temporary house to protect them from the cold.
Detailed explanation-5: -Inuit inhabited present-day Alaska and northern Canada. They lived in Arctic areas where the temperature is below freezing much of the year.