Haia And Inuit Compare And Contrast

The Haida And Inuit

Recently, I have studied several North American indian tribes including Haida and Inuit. In terms of religion, certain food, animal uses, and hunting methods they are very similar. But, they are also very different in terms of language, clothing, and shelter. The Inuit were people in the arctic, the Haida were people of the northwest woods, The two tribes have much distance between them.

The Haida and Inuit live in very different locations, so they both faced difficult challenges. For the Haida one challenge was to catch fish. The Haida depended on various types of fish to eat. However, it's difficult to catch them.But, unlike the Inuit the warmer temperature made it so they could go barefoot. The Inuit lived in the snowy arctic. The arctic provides plenty of challenges like getting food and staying warm. Getting food was tricky. Usually, they kill a caribou, fish or hunt sea mammals.There is also always the possibility that they will go overboard in their small canoes when hunting. With those heavy jackets it will be harder to swim, and that walrus could be angry and charge. And in the summer one small man will risk his life to get bird eggs of a cliffside. Then there’s the keeping warm piece, it can be less than 30 degrees below zero! Imagine the things they need to stay warm, like caribou snow gear.

The Haida depended on cedar for everything, from baskets, to housing, to clothing. They also used fish and shells in bodies of water near their settlements, the fish was to eat and the shells were for tools. For the Inuit there was plenty of ice and snow, which was used for storing fish and a drinking water supply. They also had marine mammals including whales, seals, and walrus. The Inuit were nomadic reindeer herders, so their most important resource was reindeer otherwise known as