Seal hunting should not be restricted because the survival of the Inuit people depends on it. Seals are the Inuit’s main source of food and the easiest for them to access in their daily lives. Also, seal hunting is a major part of the Inuits economy, and most of their money is obtained from seal skins, and other products. Although anit-sealers believe that they the EU seal ban exempts the Inuit people, they don’t realize that the Inuit are still negatively affected. All the points prove that the Inuit people constantly face cultural prejudice and in need of economic equality. For Inuit people, seals are not just a source of food, they provide clothing and other resources to the people. The Inuit life off the seals and they use every aspect of the animals to their benefits. Alethea Arnaquq-Baril, the director of the documentary, ‘Angry …show more content…
The Inuits economy and quality of life majorly depend on the money made from seal skins and meat. Since they live in such a delicate and unique environment, there aren’t many natural resources to benefit from as majorly as seals. Seal hunting is the easiest accessible food source for the Inuit, considering the fact that the prices of food found in grocery stores are majorly hiked up. Without the seal hunt, how would the Inuit people find the money to spend $30 on a head of cabbage and $80 on a pack of Ginger Ale? If this current disagreement between the government and the Inuit continues to exist, the native people will have to turn to oil drilling to create a stable economy, though this will ultimately wreck the environment and natural beauty of Canada’s north. In all the decisions made by the government regarding the Inuit people and their culture, none of the Indigenous people were ever consulted, and these decisions remained highly
Marquise Lepage’s documentary, Martha of the North (2009) provides an insight to the 1953 forced relocation of the Inuit from Northern Quebec to the High Arctic. It does an exceptional job at explaining how the Inuit’s lives were affected and molded at a holistic perspective. Martha of the North (2009) can be explained through the concept of holism and its limitations. The concept of holism can explain the effects that the relocations has had on the Inuit people. Although the Inuit’s behaviour can be analyzed through the concept there are aspects of their experience that holism does not account for. The documentary follows the life of one of the first Inuit to be relocated, a woman named Martha, along with her family and the people in her community.
Canadian’s culture initiates from their wildlife and forests. Many different ways of living in Canada’s regions has an impact on the cultural view. The major problem with the wildlife view involving cultural acts is Seal Hunting. Seal Hunting has been continuing for years and harming many of the seas natural inhabitants. In the Gulf of St. Lawrence, which is in the Maritimes, is a popular venue for such activities. An exploration of a day in the life of a seal and hunter is portrayed in the Maritimes, and its effect on the culture in the Maritimes.
... In the debate over the ethics of whaling and its regulation since the formation of the IWC, widely diverse arguments have been made concerning the legitimacy of the whaling enterprise and the economic, ethical, and practical aspects of international regulation. Different views of ecology, culture, and legitimacy as they pertain to a valued resource and its exploitation for human purposes. While it is safe to say one must preserve the historical and cultural value of whaling nations and nations around the world, it can also be said of animals. While many nations continue to cling to their cultural ancestry, background of whaling, and the right for scientific research, it is proven that such human endeavors must be carefully and faithfully regulated.
People who live in Arctic live a different lifestyle the people in Florida. The people who live in Arctic wear thicker clothing and are much adapted to the extreme weather compared to the Floridians. One specific part of the culture is eating seal blubber that common practice of Inuit people. Seal is a common for delicacy for Inuit people. This is practice is a considered both an evoked culture and transmitted culture. What is evoked culture? An evoked culture is a type of culture where certain environment that elicits a certain response the people. In the case of seal blubber, this practice is considered to be evoked, for the climate in the area is an extreme. Arctic is a very cold and the animals that live there have certain adaptations to be accustomed to the temperature. Being common for seals to reside in the Arctic, the people of Inuit (Arctic) have incorporated the animal into
People should reduce fishing in Hawaii because the Monk Seal population is declining for the seals get entangled in the nets of the fishermen set out for other fish rather than the seals (Gravitz “Hawaiian Monk Seal”). Fishing is one reason that these wonderful seals are facing a decline in population. Fishing attracts seals who hope to get away with an easy meal. It is not everyday that seals get to feast on an amount of fish this gigantic. They venture close to the nets to capture stray fish. However, these seals sometimes find themselves trapped in the fishing nets. This leads to most of those seals getting killed off by the fishermen. Undoubtedly, fishing is one of the reasons that this beautiful seal is critically endangered, as well as starving.
Have you ever watched a video that completely contradicted everything that you believed in? Me either, until after watching the document “Angry Inuk”. I although thought of myself as a good person: vegetarian, feminist, donated money to the homeless and starving, not buying leathers, furs, bone, etc. items, recycling, buying fair trade, but Alethea Arnaquq-Barill made it seem like I was the one out clubbing baby harp seals. Born in the capital city of Nunavut, Iqaluit, one of her first memories is going seal hunting. In the Inuit culture, seals provides them food and clothing for themselves as well as an income. It is a happy day when someone bring home a seal, calling out for a community dinner. But the anti-seal hunting groups have been on
Seal slaughtering had taken place on the ice floes off Canada’s East coast in two areas which are the Gulf of St. Lawrence and the east of the Magdalen Islands for almost half a decade. Each year, thousands of Canadian fishermen murder and shoot two-weeks to two-months old seals, drag them and skin the pups while still alive and conscious. They sell the skin for leather and fashion garments while the remains of the body are left on the ice to rot. I believe that the process of clubbing seals is cruel and that it should stop before the population of seals is endangered.
The seal hunt has been a Canadian tradition, started by the First Nations people, for over 4000 years. The seal hunt is still going on today and the debate of wheater it is an important part of our country and if it’s something we want our home and native land to be associated with. Furthermore, the hunt has been shown on many occasions to be extremely inhumane and unsustainable. It also does not provide a significant economic boost. Consequently, the Canadian government has been working on ways to make this tradition more ethical and sustainable, but so far their attempts have only had a minuscule effect.
There are many people affected by global warming. One of those affected is the Inuit tribe. The Inuits live in the Arctic Region. Global Warming has affected the Inuit tribe greatly. Global warming has affected the inuit tribes ancient rituals by, depleting the food supply that the inuit use to survive and furthermore, ancient hunting rituals have changed and the land that they had once thrived upon is now diminishing.
Marine Harvest Canada builds a sustainable community which ensures our employees to live and work happily by supporting many other community organizations including service groups, sports teams, and social programs (“Supporting the Community”). As Aboriginal people is a very important part of Canada. Marine Harvest Canada’s employees comprise of one-fifth of aboriginal descent (“Aboriginal People and Marine Harvest Canada Working Together”). Marine Harvest Canada also collaborates First Nation community Kitasoo/Xai’xais, and processes 5,000 tonnes of salmon a year from local farms (“Aboriginal People and Marine Harvest Canada Working
Arctic sovereignty is an important issue for Canadians, because the Arctic makes up a significant amount of our land. Conflicts have arisen between many countries such as Denmark, Norway, Canada, the United States, and Russia on who should have sovereignty over the arctic region. As a result the Arctic council has been formed to find solutions to problems that arise from issues regarding the arctic region. However the Arctic Council has not been effective in accomplishing many things in terms of action. Another concern that Canadians have is the impact of global warming on Arctic sovereignty. Additionally, the conflict over the Arctic has also caused concern between the relationship of Canada with the United States. While this may be a major
Climate change is affecting the entire world, yet Greenland is especially sensitive to slight fluctuations due to its dependency of the natives’ traditional lifestyles on the environment. Melting ice and permafrost restrict access to hunting grounds making a traditional way of life consisting of hunting seal and caribou more difficult.2 Every four years, the Inuit living in Greenland, Canada, Alaska, and Siberia convene the Inuit Circumpolar Conference (ICC) to discuss issues of concern. The ICC lobbied successfully to ban a dozen organic pollutants, carried north by winds, that do not evaporate in the Arctic cold. These pollutants were infecting meat and berries, staples of the Inuit diet, as well as the breast milk of nursing mothers.3 There are many more problems facing the sustainability of Greenland, such as trans-boundary pollution and the fact that the Inuit are not an effective lobbying group due to differences in culture, dialect, and lack of communication.
The Inuit hunted and fished whale, seal, and walrus by way of a kayak or by waiting patiently near holes in the ice. They made great use of animal skins for warm and beautiful clothing as one may observe on display in the Polar World exhibit at the museum. They primarily made a living by hunting, trapping, and buying and selling handicrafts. They also traded whale blubber which was used for fuel. They traded the blubber with missionaries, whalers, and other foreigners.
The preface pages to Sedna gives background to the Inuit people and how they came to live and thrive in their harsh environments. The Inuit people live in Siberia and Greenland and for thousands of years they live by the same practices, rituals, and traditions that have remained within their daily lives. Their oral traditions put importance on what the Inuit people valued and how they have been able to survive. For them to have a steady food supply there must be plenty of the animals they need for food which are caribou and seals. Sedna is a powerful deity of the spirit world and controls the animals that are the Inuit’s food supply and will withhold them if she feels she has been insulted.
1. Inuits have a strong bond, in order for the Inuits to survive they need to work together to hunt or build and if they are working with their community to hunt or build they will have a strong bond.At 39:04 in the video it shows the Inuits working together to hunt so they could eat.This shows that the Inuits work together to survive and they have a strong bond because of that.In conclusion, Inuits have a strong bond because they work together in order to survive like hunting they work together to get food for each other so they don’t starve.