The inuit tribe - inuit people
this is the full history about inuit tribe , Several thousand years after the first people crossed the Bering Land Bridge into North America, other people came to North America by boats, crossing from Siberia across the Arctic Ocean to Alaska. This was about 7000-5000 BC. Archaeologists call these people the pre-Dorset Culture. They seem to have begun to leave Alaska about 4500 BC, when a warming period melted some of the Arctic ice, and they reached Greenland about 2500 BC. They hunted musk ox and reindeer in the north, and further south they hunted seal and caribou.History of inuit Tribe
The North was the last frontier of Canada. Until the Second World War - which had been largely ignored by the rest of Canada , except for very bold and adventurous. Since the mid- 1700s a number of explorers in search of the Northwest Passage West for oil whalers , traders Hudson Bay in search of fox fur and missionaries research souls ventured into the North and met with its inhabitants, the Inuit.
Although these visitors North introduces some new commercial products , especially rifles and tea, snuff and flour , the lifestyle of nomadic Inuit hunters remained relatively untouched by the intruders. In the 1940s most Inuit still lived in camps for small family, sled dogs used to travel, lived in igloos during the winter, and divide their time between capture and hunting of white fox .
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All this would change radically in the next two decades. For a variety of political and strategic reasons the Federal Government of Canada began to take an active interest in the welfare of its citizens in the North. In 1939 , a decision of the Supreme Court had granted the same rights to Inuit health , welfare and education as the Indians of Canada. In 1947 , the family allowance checks began issuing administered by the Hudson Bay Company Hudson or the RCMP , followed by pensions in 1948. During the 1,950 annual visits by a government medical research vessels and administered tests for tuberculosis . In 1956 , a program of low-cost housing has been introduced . In 1955 , a selection of the children were sent to Chesterfield Inlet to be taught by the Grey Nuns until, in 1959 , the federal day schools were built in the North. In 1970, completed the process of abandoning a nomadic lifestyle and move into permanent settlements.
One of the reasons why the Canadian government felt compelled to intervene was receiving reports from visitors on North Inuit deteriorating , partly caused by the fact that the price had dropped white fox in the world market . Therefore, the main means of getting cash had dried for hikers Inuit. Although hunters who lived in much of the land that became dependent on money to buy weapons and ammunition. With nothing to exchange , families have experienced hardships and periods of severe famine .
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