An igloo is a shelter made from snow blocks that was predominantly built and used by the indigenous Inuit communities that inhabit Canada’s Central Arctic region along with those who lived in the Thule area of Greenland. Inuit communities in other areas also used snow to insulate their homes but the main structures were usually constructed from hides and whalebone. [Read more...]
The Settlement History of Canada
March 4, 2011 By
Circa 28,000 BC- The first people settled in Canada during the Wisconsin glaciation as falling sea levels allowed them to travel across the Bering Strait from Siberia to North America. This period of settlement in the history of Canada is known as the Paleo-Indian period. It is thought that the first people to settle in Canada did so in pursuit of Pleistocene mammals such as woolly mammoths, mastodons and giant beavers. These settlers, the Paleo-Indian Clovis people, are believed by many to be the shared ancestors of all indigenous Canadian people as well as those across the rest of North and South America. This theory has, however, been challenged several times over the last 30 years. [Read more...]
Inuit Religion and Mythology
February 13, 2011 By
Traditional Inuit religion was based upon a form of shamanism which incorporated principles of animism. Although there was no central deity, an important figure in Inuit religion was an old woman called Sedna who lived with other important gods under the sea, their main source of food. According to their belief system, all objects and living things had a spirit. [Read more...]
The Canadian history of its aboriginal people and Eskimos
January 21, 2011 By
The word Eskimo translated means “eater of raw meat”. Although Eskimo is an American Indian word scientifically Eskimos are believed to be from North Asian Decent.
Eskimos originally came from a land bridge which is no longer exists which stretched from Asia into northern America. Because of this it allowed Eskimos to travel and spread across the continents arctic regions and they eventually came to settle in four countries, these being Greenland, The Soviet Union, Alaska and Canada. [Read more...]