Global warming will do the same thing, but do we celebrate that? No!

And thanks to me, they all have an electric refrigerator!

Until they get drunk and rip them apart for fire wood

Is it too much to ask that online jouranlists a) have a picture, and b) that its large enough I don't have to cick on it to view?

Idiots.

That's a nice huntin cabin

FTFA:Traditional Inuit hunting and gathering techniques provided a reliable and balanced diet of seals, walrus, caribou, birds, fish, and naturally available plants.

I wonder if this diet creates a need for alcohol at a cellular level..or maybe it's being in a frozen wasteland that does it.

I'm really just not innuit that much.

EleventyOne: FTFA:Traditional Inuit hunting and gathering techniques provided a reliable and balanced diet of seals, walrus, caribou, birds, fish, and naturally available plants.

I wonder if this diet creates a need for alcohol at a cellular level..or maybe it's being in a frozen wasteland that does it.

It could be both.

EleventyOne: FTFA:Traditional Inuit hunting and gathering techniques provided a reliable and balanced diet of seals, walrus, caribou, birds, fish, and naturally available plants.

I wonder if this diet creates a need for alcohol at a cellular level..or maybe it's being in a frozen wasteland that does it.

I don't know about seals and walrus, but the rest of the food is pretty good.

But being in a place where it ranges from sun all day to perpetual twilight, will drive anybody to drink.

Juc: I don't know about seals and walrus, but the rest of the food is pretty good.

I'll have an order of the seal fillet with a side of walrus souffle.

SuperMeekrat: FTFA: Food preparation and storage facilities, such as smokers and freezers"
Uh, wouldn't that be the entire freaking outdoors in the arctic?

Only for a portion of the year.

iamdonovan: SuperMeekrat: FTFA: Food preparation and storage facilities, such as smokers and freezers"
Uh, wouldn't that be the entire freaking outdoors in the arctic?

Only for a portion of the year.

also -40 isn't always what you want to store things at, and the wildlife can eat it.

Traditional Inuit hunting and gathering techniques provided a reliable and balanced diet of seals, walrus, caribou, birds, fish, and naturally available plants.

And by plants they mean raw meat. Like, raw whale skin, which was essential for its high vitamin C content.

/cooking destroys vitamin C
//yay balanced diet
///raw seals on Mondays, raw walrus on Tuesdays, raw whales on Wednesdays...

iamdonovan: SuperMeekrat: FTFA: Food preparation and storage facilities, such as smokers and freezers"
Uh, wouldn't that be the entire freaking outdoors in the arctic?

Only for a portion of the year.

global warming, donchaknow...

aren't all igloos technically solar-powered?

But today that traditional diet is compromised. The younger generation - 60 per cent of people in the Arctic are under the age of 25 years old - is not learning to hunt. The less aware they are of traditional survival methods, the more they rely on unhealthy food products manufactured in the south. New health issues are emerging as knowledge of community hunting disappears.

I wonder if any of these helpful people stopped to consider why this culture is disappearing.

They didn't choose to live in one of the least hospitable places on earth because it was fun and they enjoyed eating seal meat, raw, for nearly every meal. They were forced to live there because they weren't strong enough to take better land.

It's no wonder they're leaving now that they have choices. And giving them nice huts isn't going to convince the younger generation to stay behind.

/you can't artificially preserve a culture, at best you'll get reenactors.