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Crossed the Bering Strait between 6000 BC and 2000 BC

They crossed from Asia into North America and Greenland

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Either by choice or arranged/pressured by community

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6-10 families would join and form alliances
They would share resources

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Inuit had no main leader for the tribe
A respected patriarch would lead each group of 1-10 families

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Boys learned to hunt

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spoke Inuktitut(Inuktitut, Inupiaq, and Kalaallisut) and Yupik

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Angakuqqs (shamans) contacted spirits to ask for help

Honored spirits with dance

Pleased weather and animal spirits to avoid harm

Believed that the Aurora Borealis contained spirits, good and evil

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Sea mammals
- seals - meat and skin
- walrus - ivory and meat
- beluga whales - skin
- narwhals - ivory and meat

Land animals
- caribou
- musk oxen
- arctic fox
- polar bear
- arctic hare
- arctic birds

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build and crafted with animals products, stone, wood

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Kayaks -->

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Were skilled hunters and hunted year round to get a steady income of food

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Animal Products such as skinsCaribou Clothing

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Used dogsleds and boats-qaiaqs (kayaks) and umiaqs (big 'woman' boats)

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Men and Women didn't have to have one role

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Men and Women didn't have to have one role

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Lived in igloos and tents

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Celebrated a Messenger Feast in December to demonstrate social status, wealth, and to exchange gifts

Celebrated a Spring Whaling Festival after a whale hunt to set free the whale spirits and to thank their gods and ask for good fortune in the next hunt

The Inuit dance during a Messenger Feast.