Inuit Tribe Research Paper

Kaden Osterhaus

English 11 Research Paper

Mrs. Ribar

7 November 2016

The Inuit Tribe is Affected By Global Warming

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.

Housing is a key essential to how the Inuit people survive in the cold unforgiving weather. During the winter the inuits build their houses out of snow. These houses are called Igloos. First the group cuts

This crisis is also affecting what they are hunting. This tribe uses various tools to hunt the variety of game the require to survive. "We live in a land where agriculture is impracticable and our dependency on hunting and fishing is essential to our survival," (Belleau 2) The tools the tribe uses are fishing lines,nets, listeners, three pronged spears, spears, bow and arrows, clubs, and stone traps. The tools are typically made out of stone or out of animals. Not only tools are made from the animals remnants. The inuit tribe used the remnants of the animals and made art out of them. The inuit people also use knife to cut up the meat. There was typically not enough supply for a fire so the inuit tribe typically ate their meat raw. The Inuit tribe hunt the hooded seal, Beluga whale, Walrus, Narwhal, Caribou, Polar bear, Musk Ox, Arctic Fox, Arctic Hare, Arctic Bird, Harp Seal and Ringed seal. The inuit tribe hunts these animals with spears, boats and nets. The tribe makes boots, pants, shirts, parkas, google, hats, and more hunting supplies out of what they manage to kill. The Inuit people hunt the seal by waiting at their air hole for the seals (a hole in the ice where the seal comes out of the water for air and rest)for the seals to come back up for a breath and kill them with a harpoon. If global warming continues there will be no way to get to the seals that the inuit rely heavily on for food. This would mean that the Inuits would then have to turn their efforts into hunting something else. One big effect to having switch food sources would be that the animal that would now be targeted more would slowly deplete in population so the inuits would then have to switch again and the entire ecosystem would be harmed.