USA HISTORY

FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE

NATIVE AMERICANS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which Native American tribe inhabited an area that is below freezing much of the year?
A
Iroquois
B
Lakota
C
Inuit
D
Kwakiutl
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Inuit inhabited present-day Alaska and northern Canada. They lived in Arctic areas where the temperature is below freezing much of the year.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Inuit Indians lived in what is now northern Canada and Alaska. Temperatures in these Arctic areas are below freezing much of the year. The Inuit Indians used the natural resources from this frozen environment to meet their basic needs. In the past, their lives depended on the animals that lived in this region.

Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -Igloo (iglu in Inuktitut, meaning “house”), is a winter dwelling made of snow. Historically, Inuit across the Arctic lived in igloos before the introduction of modern, European-style homes.

Detailed explanation-5: -Being that the Inuit live in Alaska, Denmark, Greenland, and northern Canada, the climate is best described as arctic.

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