Early winter was spent mostly seal hunting. Seal blubber was used to provide heat and cooking fuel for qulliq. There were also caches of seal blubber in skin sacks which could be used in time of hardship. All the members in the Inuit families with the exception of babies, had a part in carrying out responsibilities when we hunt. Seal Skin and Ammunition .
Humans are hunters.
Before the farms, fields and domesticated animals, such as cows and chickens, we gathered berries and hunted meat to survive. Today most of us buy our food in a super market. The Inuit people do the same though they still hunt of the land much more than we do. Their lives have always been dependent on hunting and fishing. Actually, not only for food, but also as materials for their clothing, tools, fuel and material for shelters such as whalebone.