Exploring Inuit Culture and History Quiz - Test Your Knowledge

in 1880 Abraham Ulrikab and seven other native Inuit from Hebron, Labrador, Canada were put on display in European zoos and met untimely deaths from lack of medical attention.

in Inuit lore the Adlet are mythical creatures, half-man and half-dog, but the term may also denote inland natives.

now-Member of the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut Peter Taptuna was a participant in the first and only Inuit drilling crew on the Beaufort Sea.

the flag of the Canadian territory of Nunavut (pictured) features an inukshuk, a traditional Inuit monument that guides travelers and marks sacred sites.

in 1975, Tivi Etok, a Quebec artist, was the first Inuk printmaker to have a collection of his own prints released.

a trading post was set up in Kangirsuk, Quebec, in 1921 but the Inuit did not settle there permanently until the 1960s.

Inuit fur trader Stephen Angulalik sold umbrellas and parasols at his trading post in Northern Canada, which were covered in white cotton and used by hunters to sneak up on sleeping seals.

Kalaallit Dr. Karla Jessen Williamson was Editor of the Journal of Indigenous Studies before she became the first woman and first Inuk Executive Director at the Arctic Institute of North America.

Tikigaq Inuit children attending public school in Point Hope, Alaska can take a three-week whaling class to learn specific whaling traditions and skills.

Kabloona (1941) is a classic account of a Frenchman's life among Canadian Inuit.

anthropologist Donat Savoie was the first director of Canada's Inuit Relations Secretariat.

Exploring Inuit Culture and History

1 In Canada and Greenland, the Inuit circulated almost exclusively north of the "Arctic tree line", the ________ southern border of Inuit society; to the south, Native American cultures were well established.

2 [7][8] In Canada, the Constitution Act of 1982, sections 25 and 35 recognised the Inuit as a distinctive group of Canadian aboriginals, who are neither ________ nor Métis.

3 Which of the following are related to Inuit?

4 Myopia was almost unknown prior to the Inuit adoption of ________.

6 What does the following picture show? Inupiat in a kayak, Noatak, Alaska, c. 1929 (photo by Edward S. Curtis) Inupiat family, Noatak, Alaska, 1930 Typical clothing, Perry River, Canada, 1959. Inupiat woman, Alaska, circa 1907

7 ________'s 1576 search for the Northwest Passage was the first well-documented post-Columbian contact between Europeans and Inuit.

8 [71] However, some Inuit believed that the lights were more sinister and if you ________ at them, they would come down and cut off your head.

9 Some, such as the Siglit, used driftwood,[35] while others built ________ houses.

10 The last Inuit introduced to missionaries and writing were the Netsilik Inuit in Kugaaruk and north ________.

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