Download or read book The History and Culture of the Inuit written by Charles River Charles River Editors and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-02-22 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Includes pictures. *Explains the origins, religion, and social structure of the Inuit. *Includes a Bibliography for further reading. "We are told today that Inuit never had laws or 'maligait'. Why? They say because they are not written on paper. When I think of paper, I think you can tear it up, and the laws are gone. The laws of the Inuit are not on paper." - Mariano Aupilaarjuk From the "Trail of Tears" to Wounded Knee and Little Bighorn, the narrative of American history is incomplete without the inclusion of the Native Americans that lived on the continent before European settlers arrived in the 16th and 17th centuries. Since the first contact between natives and settlers, tribes like the Sioux, Cherokee, and Navajo have both fascinated and perplexed outsiders with their history, language, and culture. In Charles River Editors' Native American Tribes series, readers can get caught up to speed on the history and culture of North America's most famous native tribes in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. North Americans have long been fascinated by the Inuit, but this level of interest has been matched by a general lack of knowledge about the group itself. For centuries, they have been called Eskimos, despite the fact there are distinct differences within the group and many of them find the use of the word Eskimo offensive. With that said, the group's lifestyle has long been of interest to outsiders simply based on the fact that it's so different. The Inuit live in harsh Arctic climates in Canada, America, Russia, and even Greenland, and they are descendants of the very people who historians believe crossed the landbridge that once connected Russia to Alaska thousands of years ago. Given the Inuit's history and lifestyle, as well as general Eskimo stereotypes, the Inuit have long been associated with igloos, sleds, pack dogs, and other aspects of culture that people think of when they think of Alaska and freezing weather. The Inuit's homelands ensured that they came into less contact with Europeans than other Native American groups in North America, which has also added a degree of mystery to them. Legends and myths about the Inuit spread, including the allegation that they would put babies with physical deformities to death like the Ancient Spartans. Historians still speculate that the Vikings came into contact with the Inuit when Leif Ericson sailed to the northern tip of Newfoundland, and it's even believed that the Inuit's movements in that region (including to Greenland) helped displace the Europeans from their earliest colonies in what would later be deemed the New World nearly 500 years later. Native American Tribes: The History and Culture of the Inuit comprehensively covers the culture and history of the famous group, profiling their origins, their history, and their lasting legacy. Along with pictures of important people, places, and events, you will learn about the Inuit like you never have before, in no time at all.
Download or read book The Eskimo Tribes written by Hinrich Rink and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Eskimo Tribes written by Hinrich Rink and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Eskimos written by Kaj Birket-Smith and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Up-to-date account of Eskimo tribes in Alaska, Canada and Greenland covering all aspects of their history, life and culture.
Download or read book Social Life in Northwest Alaska written by Ernest S. Burch and published by University of Alaska Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This landmark volume will stand for decades as one of the most comprehensive studies of a hunter-gatherer population ever written. In this third and final volume in a series on the early contact period Iñupiaq Eskimos of northwestern Alaska, Burch examines every topic of significance to hunter-gatherer research, ranging from discussions of social relationships and settlement structure to nineteenth-century material culture.
Download or read book THE ESKIMO TRIBES THEIR DISTRIBUTION AND CHARACTERISTICS ESPECIALLY AS REGARDS LANGUAGE written by DR. HENRY RINK and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Latin American Indigenous Warfare and Ritual Violence written by Richard J. Chacon and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking multidisciplinary book presents significant essays on historical indigenous violence in Latin America from Tierra del Fuego to central Mexico. The collection explores those uniquely human motivations and environmental variables that have led to the native peoples of Latin America engaging in warfare and ritual violence since antiquity. Based on an American Anthropological Association symposium, this book collects twelve contributions from sixteen authors, all of whom are scholars at the forefront of their fields of study. All of the chapters advance our knowledge of the causes, extent, and consequences of indigenous violence—including ritualized violence—in Latin America. Each major historical/cultural group in Latin America is addressed by at least one contributor. Incorporating the results of dozens of years of research, this volume documents evidence of warfare, violent conflict, and human sacrifice from the fifteenth century to the twentieth, including incidents that occurred before European contact. Together the chapters present a convincing argument that warfare and ritual violence have been woven into the fabric of life in Latin America since remote antiquity. For the first time, expert subject-area work on indigenous violence—archaeological, osteological, ethnographic, historical, and forensic—has been assembled in one volume. Much of this work has heretofore been dispersed across various countries and languages. With its collection into one English-language volume, all future writers—regardless of their discipline or point of view—will have a source to consult for further research. CONTENTS Acknowledgments Introduction Richard J. Chacon and Rubén G. Mendoza 1. Status Rivalry and Warfare in the Development and Collapse of Classic Maya Civilization Matt O’Mansky and Arthur A. Demarest 2. Aztec Militarism and Blood Sacrifice: The Archaeology and Ideology of Ritual Violence Rubén G. Mendoza 3. Territorial Expansion and Primary State Formation in Oaxaca, Mexico Charles S. Spencer 4. Images of Violence in Mesoamerican Mural Art Donald McVicker 5. Circum-Caribbean Chiefly Warfare Elsa M. Redmond 6. Conflict and Conquest in Pre-Hispanic Andean South America: Archaeological Evidence from Northern Coastal Peru John W. Verano 7. The Inti Raymi Festival among the Cotacachi and Otavalo of Highland Ecuador: Blood for the Earth Richard J. Chacon, Yamilette Chacon, and Angel Guandinango 8. Upper Amazonian Warfare Stephen Beckerman and James Yost 9. Complexity and Causality in Tupinambá Warfare William Balée 10. Hunter-Gatherers’ Aboriginal Warfare in Western Chaco Marcela Mendoza 11. The Struggle for Social Life in Fuego-Patagonia Alfredo Prieto and Rodrigo Cárdenas 12. Ethical Considerations and Conclusions Regarding Indigenous Warfare and Ritual Violence in Latin America Richard J. Chacon and Rubén G. Mendoza References About the Contributors Index
Download or read book The Eskimo Tribes Their Distribution and Characteristics Especially as Regards Language With a Comparative Vocabulary and Sketch map written by H (Hinrich) 1819-1893 Rink and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Native American Tribes written by Charles River Editors and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-09-22 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprehensively covers the culture and history of the famous group, profiling their origin, their history, and their lasting legacy.
Download or read book Never in Anger written by Jean L. Briggs and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1971 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes emotional patterning of the Utkuhikhalingmiut, a small group of Eskimos who live at the mouth of the Back River, in the context of their life as seen as lived by the author. Based on field work conducted between June 1963 and March 1965.
Download or read book Minik The New York Eskimo written by Kenn Harper and published by Steerforth. This book was released on 2017-09-26 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A true story from the great age of Arctic exploration of an Inuit boy's struggle for dignity against Robert Peary and the American Museum of Natural History in turn-of-the-century New York City. Sailing aboard a ship called Hope in 1897, celebrated Arctic explorer Robert Peary entered New York Harbor with peculiar "cargo": Six Polar Inuit intended to serve as live "specimens" at the American Museum of Natural History. Four died within a year. One managed to gain passage back to Greenland. Only the sixth, a boy of six or seven with a precociously solemn smile, remained. His name was Minik. Although Harper's unflinching narrative provides a much needed corrective to history's understanding of Peary, who was known among the Polar Inuit as "the great tormenter", it is primarily a story about a boy, Minik Wallace, known to the American public as "The New York Eskimo." Orphaned when his father died of pneumonia, Minik never surrendered the hope of going "home," never stopped fighting for the dignity of his father's memory, and never gave up his belief that people would come to his aid if only he could get them to understand.
Download or read book My Life with the Eskimo written by Vilhjalmur Stefansson and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Among the Eskimos of Labrador written by Samuel King Hutton and published by London : Seeley, Service. This book was released on 1912 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Account based on author's experience as medical missionary on Killinek Island, 1908-12.
Download or read book Tribes of the Extreme Northwest written by William Healey Dall and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Eskimo Tribes written by Rink and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Guide to the Eskimos and Inuits written by Sarah Byers and published by . This book was released on 2016-04-21 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This introductory guide explains the rich cultural traditions and everyday lives of the Eskimo and Inuit peoples.Day to day survival in the Arctic is covered in vivid illustrations, which depict and detail scenes such as the building of igloos and the hunting of seals, fish and even polar bears.The distinctive Inuit animal fur clothing and their manufacture, plus recreation and games played upon the snowy wastes are also detailed. Little-known facts about clever inventions created by the Inuit tribes are mentioned, such as shoes for their hunting dogs, handcrafted goggles which protect against the freezing weather, and fur linings for their iconic igloo snow houses.This book's also covers the survival methods the Eskimos and Inuits use to thrive upon their habitat. Answers are given about how different communities adjust to the unusual day and night cycles plus the many dangers inherent to the Arctic such as the freezing weather and dangerous polar bears. Spread across Greenland, Canada, Russia and other territories, the process by which the tribes came to trade with peoples from afar, and were introduced to cultures staggeringly different from their own, is also mentioned.Suitable for children and adults, and written in a simple yet comprehensive style by cultural anthropologist Sarah Byers, this wonderful guide will introduce and impress upon you the fascinating importance of the Eskimo and Inuit peoples.
Download or read book Studies on the Material Culture of the Eskimo in West Greenland written by Morten Pedersen Porsild and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancient and contemporary weapons and utensils.
