Black Foot Vs Inuits Essay

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Black Foot Compared to Inuits

Have you ever tried to compare two different Indian groups?... Neither have I, Until now! Something you should know is that Blackfoot people lived/live in Montana, and the Inuits live in Canada the comparison is way different. I will talk about two differences and one similarity category, Two in each.

This first one is on the Blackfoot side. Housing, blackfoot makes teepees as their housing. The Inuit use Igloos, and other kinds of ice houses. This is the way this is because of their resources. The Inuit have access to snow and ice, but the Inuit have access to wood and a good amount of animals for their hide and fur. Not to switch the subject, wait nevermind. Too switch the subject, Blackfoot has …show more content…

Not to get pg. at all, just going to tell you about some they used. To start with they both made and used Ulus. Ulus are curved knives. Later on, they used regular knives and spears. My next combined one goes with weapons. They were both introduced to Europeans. By this happening The Blackfoot and the Inuit were also introduced to weapons and how to use them. This was a plus because they could hunt and fight easier. If you couldn’t tell this was a similarity because this event happened to both groups.

Lastly, The Inuit have different clothing because of the environment they live in. The Blackfoot had/have very thin, skin clothing because they live in regular, all season weather. The Inuit were very heavy wool clothing because they live in the cold weather. Next, they both ate differently because of where they lived. Blackfoot people usually ate bison, ground squirrels, nuts and berries. The Inuit usually ate Hooded seal, Caribou, Narwhal, Arctic fox and the Arctic hare. You can obviously see that they ate very different foods, So this is a difference.

I’m going to compare Inuit people and the Blackfoot people, Completed. So after talking about the four differences and the two similarities I hope you learned something about my certain topic. Remember, It doesn’t have to be the same to be cool, In the end It doesn’t

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